Making a dropdown field a mandatory field

Ganeshmurthy

Hi All,
I have a dropdown field in datatables and want to make it mandatory field. If the value is "select one' then I should prompt a message below the dropdown field. EditorField.error works only for textbox.
Can anyone shed some light to get this resolved?
Thanks in advance.
Ganesh

hnhegde

I am looking for a simple way to say an Editor field is mandatory. Akin to the "required" attribute in html5. Surprisingly, cant find any. Kindly advise,

Thanks,
Harsha

allan

Hi Harsha,

There are a few options for this. A CSS class for the fields in question that would style them differently is on option. An asterisk in the field label is another option.

Allan

hnhegde

Allan,
We ended up writing a javascript validation function and passed an array of field names from each table requiring validation. Coupled with visual cues - like red asterisk to prompt the user.

function check_mandatory_fields(editor, fields ){
    var ret_value = true;
    for( var i = 0; i < fields.length; i++){
        fieldname = fields[i];
        field_obj = editor.field(fieldname);
        if ((field_obj.val() == null) || (field_obj.val() == '')){

            field_obj.error('Mandatory Field');
            ret_value = false;
        }
        else{
            field_obj.error(null);
        }
    }
    return ret_value;
}

And in the table "preSubmit" -

table_A.on('preSubmit', function(e, o, a) {
               check_mandatory_fields(table_A, ['field1', 'field2']);
                if (this.inError()) {
                    return false;
                }
            });