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**sjivan** · 19 Jan 2009, 01:40

Fixed in SVN.

Sanjiv

**ect** · 19 Jan 2009, 03:02

Fix works, but how is validation propagated?

I'm impressed by the promptness of the solution. Thanks, the change works.

I now run into another problem which also has to do with the ValuesManager:

Lets take my example from before, so I have again the ValuesManager, TabSet and two forms myFormOne, myFormTwo.
I now add two databound fields to the datasource as in

Code:

DataSourceTextField dsName = new DataSourceTextField("name", "Name", 20, true);
DataSourceTextField dsPreName = new DataSourceTextField("prename", "Prename", 20, true);
dataSource.setFields(new DataSourceField[] {dsName, dsPreName});

What I need to do is to show the mandatory 'name' in the first tab, and the mandatory 'prename' in the second tab. This works well by hiding the fields like in

Code:

myFormOne.hideItem("prename");
myFormTwo.hideItem("name");

I did not find another way to do this.
When I now have entered valid data for the field 'name' on the first tab, and also data for field 'prename' on the second tab and I validate the data via the ValuesManager as in

Code:

valuesManager.validate();

it returns false and I get an error message "Invalid value" from

Code:

valuesManager.getUnknownErrorMessage()

I can see in the SmartClient Developer Console that the ValuesManager validates all elements of all its forms, no matter if they are visible or not:

Code:

12:04:13.297:MUP9:DEBUG:DynamicForm:myFormOne:Applying 1 validators to field 'name' with value 'Prompt'
12:04:13.297:MUP9:DEBUG:DynamicForm:myFormOne:Applying 1 validators to field 'prename' with value 'null'
12:04:13.313:MUP9:INFO:DynamicForm:myFormOne:Validation errors: {prename: "Field is required"}
12:04:13.313:MUP9:DEBUG:DynamicForm:myFormTwo:Applying 1 validators to field 'name' with value 'undefined'
12:04:13.313:MUP9:DEBUG:DynamicForm:myFormTwo:Applying 1 validators to field 'prename' with value 'prename'
12:04:13.313:MUP9:INFO:DynamicForm:myFormTwo:Validation errors: {name: "Field is required"}
12:04:13.329:MUP9:WARN:validation:isc_OID_29:Validation failed with the following errors:
prename:- Field is required
 - Field is required
name:- Field is required

So even though I have entered valid data into both mandatory fields I still get an error because the ValuesManager valdates all data on both forms. Is there any way to workaround checks on invisible form fields? Or should the assignment of databound elements to multiple forms be done in a different way? The DynamicForm has a validate(boolean validateHiddenFields), but that is not the ValuesManager and I guess this would only work for form fields, not for databound fields.
Any ideas?

**Isomorphic** · 19 Jan 2009, 14:21

You can specify fields on the individual forms to make those forms show a subset of the DataSource fields. ValuesManager.validate() will then validate the overall compound form and show the errors in the form fields that are showing those fields.

BTW, I think you're Developer Console probably has warnings telling you there are colliding fields in multiple forms.

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