Stoping "Plesae Select" List/Menu Results from coming through

Hi there, we have several list/menu's on our website form and
want to know if theres a way of stopping all the "please select"
results from coming through?
"please select" comes through because the user hasent
selected a result in the list menu.
Cheers
Malhyp

MalRom wrote:
> Hi there, we have several list/menu's on our website
form and want to know if
> theres a way of stopping all the "please select" results
from coming through?
>
> "please select" comes through because the user hasent
selected a result in the
> list menu.
As well as what Gary has suggested, you should always
validate the input
being submitted via a form. This can be done client-side with
Javascript, or server-side with whatever language is
available. It
sounds like you can't edit the CGI which processes the form
data and
sends it, so do as Gary suggested, or use some client-side
form
validation. There are loads of examples online if you google
for
"javascript form validation"
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Edited by: 805629 on Jan 26, 2011 10:45 PM

Try 'select list with submit', not "select list with redirect". Redirect usually doesn't save the values in session state so they are lost when the page repaints.

Can I use dynamic select list in task form?

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If I need to chage text input in task form to select list which dynamic from some database, Can I do it? If I can, how to do its ?
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User520932

If you mean that you want to change the 'outcome' list of the human task, then this is not possible.
Marc
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