Validation questions: How to turn it off, and how to check to see if a form is valid

Question

Hi all,
I'm looking for some assistance with validation on a form / Form guide. Basically there are two things that we need to be able to do.
1) We need to be able to disable all the validation on a given form / Form Guide so that we can perform a submit operation to save all the data currently on the form.
2) We also need to be able to make the determination of whether or not a form is valid. The validity of the form would be passed with the form during the submit process.
Towards that end, I have been looking into the properties "validationsEnbled" and "disableAll". Neither one of which seem to do anything at all.
Any assistance you could provide would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in Advance.
Steve

Answer 1

Okay here's a nice little function I wrote to turn off all the mandatory fields in your form.
function unMandatoryAll() {
    //makes all mandatory fields not mandatory anymore
    var oFormRoot = xfa.form.nodes.item(0);
    var arrMandatoryFieldNames = findMandatories(oFormRoot, new Array());
    for (var i=0; i<arrMandatoryFieldNames.length; i++) {
        var oCurrentField = xfa.resolveNode(arrMandatoryFieldNames[i]);
        oCurrentField.validate.nullTest = "disabled";
function findMandatories(oFormNode, arrMandatoryFieldNames) {
    //loops recursively through all fields in the given oFormNode and builds up a list of field names (actually SOM expressions)
    var oChildNodes = oFormNode.nodes;
    var nNumberOfChildNodes = oChildNodes.length;
    for (var i=0; i<nNumberOfChildNodes; i++) {
        var oCurrentNode = oChildNodes.item(i);
        var strNodeType = oCurrentNode.className;
        if (strNodeType == "subform")
            arrMandatoryFieldNames = findMandatories(oCurrentNode, arrMandatoryFieldNames);
        if ((strNodeType == "field") || (strNodeType == "exclGroup")) {
            if (oCurrentNode.validate.nullTest == "error")
                arrMandatoryFieldNames.push(oCurrentNode.somExpression);
    return arrMandatoryFieldNames;
Jared Langdon
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