Conditional validation

[dilip_gupta]

I have a problem in conditional validation, I have a drop down and a text box and on text box I have to validate based on the value selected in drop down. Like I have some value to be selected from drop down as email, phone number,username etc. and If user selected email from drop down then on text field I need to perform email validation and if user selected username then I need to perform username validation on text box.
Can any one give me any suggestion how to achieve such requirement in smartclient.

Using smartclient 8

[davidj6]

You are looking for something like:

validators: [
    { type: "readOnly", fieldAppearance: "hidden", validateOnChange: true,
        applyWhen: {fieldName: "FieldType", operator: "equals", value: "email" }
    }
]

Although this is a field appearance validator you can use any validator type and just specify when it should be applied. Just add as many validators as you need based on your selections.

[dilip_gupta]

Hi David,
Thanks for your quick response.. I am looking for something like you provided But the problem what I am facing that my validation doesn't look for the condition which I am providing. Like I would like to perform email validation on text only if user has selected email (from drop down). And facing same problem when I use your code also, as below

this.actionListGrid = isc.ListGrid.create({
    ID: "actionListGrid",height:"100%",width:"100%",stopOnErrors:true,
    alternateRecordStyles:true, showEdges:false,canHover:true,
    fixedRecordHeights: false,wrapCells:false,border:"1px solid #cccccc",
    canReorderFields: false,autoFetchData: false,validateByCell:true,

fields:[
	{name:"aname",title:"Action To Perform",width:"50%", editorType:"comboBox",valueMap:actionsJSON},
		{name:"avalue",title:"Value(Optional)",width:"40%"
		,validators:[{
			type: "invalidNumberOrEmailCheck",
			validateOnChange: true,
			fieldAppearance: "hidden",
                 //expression: "actionListGrid.getCellValue('aname')=\"FORWARD_MESSAGE\"",
			applyWhen: {fieldName: "aname", operator: "equals", value: "FORWARD_MESSAGE" },

            errorMessage: "Please provide a valid Email or US Number as value"
		}
		 ]

and actionsJSON I have

actionsJSON = {"FORWARD_MESSAGE":"Forward to Email/Number","MOVE_MESSAGE":"Move to Trash", "REPLY_MESSAGE":"Auto reply", "PB_POST":"Post to Portal","PB_STATUS_UPDATE":"Portal status update","PB_NOTE":"Post a note to Portal"};

and Custom Validator named "invalidNumberOrEmailCheck"

Problem with this is when user selects Auto Reply then also validation of email/Number gets performed But I need to perform another validation.

[dilip_gupta]

Can any one give any suggestion/Idea how to achieve such Requirement using custom validation

Thanks!! in Advance

[davidj6]

That solution should work and it does in forms but not in a grid because the applyWhen check is run against the previously stored record values, if any, instead of the edit values. This is based on a quick glance at the code and not actual testing. Note also that if you setup one or more validators on a field with an applyWhen "equals" condition it should actually fail to run any of the validators for a new grid record.

In your example there should be one validator per selectable action and the applyWhen determines which validator(s) should be processed.

[davidj6]

I have actually tested this scenario with the latest SC nightly and I am able to conditionally apply validators in a ListGrid row (editByRow) successfully. I just modified the Feature Explorer massUpdate sample by adding a conditional validator to the population column based on the continent.

        {name:"population", 
         formatCellValue:"isc.Format.toUSString(parseInt(value))",
           validators: [
               { type: "integerRange", validateOnChange: true, max: 100000,
                 applyWhen: {fieldName: "continent", operator: "equals", value: "Asia" }
               }
           ]},

If you continue to be unable to make this work properly with the latest nightly, please post a small, standalone sample that shows your problem.