Orbeon Disabling - Onload field validation

Is there a way to disable form validation on load of the page? And only show them when user navigates through that field?

Hi Vedha,

This is what happens by default for forms you create with Form Builder. Are you seeing something different, or maybe this isn't for a form create with Form Builder?

Alex

Yes, you are correct, we are writing XForms and not using Form builder. Below is the sample,

        <xf:instance id="currentFruit">
                <fruit xmlns=""> <name></name> <category>category</category> <benefits>Good for digestion</benefits></fruit>
        </xf:instance>

<xf:bind ref="instance('currentFruit')/name" constraint=". eq 'Banana'"></xf:bind>

<xf:input nodeset="instance('currentFruit')/name"><xf:alert>Error</xf:alert></xf:input>

This error shows up on load of the page. Any way to make the error show up only when user navigates on that field.

Hi Vedha,

If you're not using Form Builder to create the form, and thus are not leveraging Form Runner, this is a tricky one, as this feature is implemented at the Form Runner level. You could of course re-implement this yourself, without using the code in Form Runner.

In essence, XForms adds the class xforms-visited to fields once the user "went through the field". So you would need to override the CSS not to show errors on the fields marked with the xforms-invalid class, unless they also have the xforms-visited class.

Then on save or submit, you'll want to show all errors, so mark all controls as visited, which you can do with with <xxf:setvisited>.

http://doc.orbeon.com/xforms/actions/extensions.html

I hope this helps,

Alex