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Saravanan J
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All,

I am building a HTML in Webfocus (7.7.03)
I have set the "Default Selection" property of my UI components to "Yes" so it enforces a mandatory selection on those fields. However when the user submits the page without making a selection on these fields, a red box appears around the field. QA team feels this is not intuitive to the user (QA always have to find some fault...grrrrr)..

I am thinking of writing a Javascript to pop up an alert for missing mandatory field, when the user submits the page. Before that I would like to know if there is anyway to customize the way mandatory fields work in Webfocus??

If someone has a better idea of how to handle this, please share.. Thanks much!!!!

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AlexU
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For each item that you don't require a user to select set the "Required " property to No in the properties dialogue.


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Saravanan J
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each item that you don't require a user to select set the "Required " property to No in the properties


In my case, i DO want to enforce mandatory selection..The problem is with the way webfocus highlights the fields when the selection is not made. Its sometimes hard to even notice. We are looking for some kind of a flashing highlight to tell the user that he has not made a selection...


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AlexU
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Your original thought of a Javasript alert would do it. You could also add a notation to indicate which parameters are mandatory, or add a default selection that would run the report and return an HTML message that their selection returned no results.


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Saravanan J
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Thanks Alex.. I like the idea of adding a notation on the page (QA seems to agree to that). I hope in future release IBI will make the mandatory fields more intuitive to the user...


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