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Francis Mariani
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HTML Composer.

Set a Control to Selection Required: Yes.

When I run the form and click on Submit without selecting a value in the dropdown list, I get a red border around the Control, but there is no message - am I not supposed to see a message, perhaps in the Status Bar at the bottom of the browser window?

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Alex
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You're right. There should be a popup dialogue. I don't recall running into the situation since using 7.7.x but up through 7.6.11 there was a dialogue along with the red border. That's probably something to open a case for to report a bug.


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David Glick
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At the status bar at the bottom of the active browser window is a message that states to select a value. Unless you have done something to prevent that.


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BarryS
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There is no error message with the red box around the control. You could request a New Feature or validate the control in JavaScript and if the value of the control is empty send an alert and provide your own message.


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David Glick
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There is no dialog, just a message in the status bar.


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Alex
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There's no message in the status bar in IE 9. In Firefox 14 you have to download an add-on to have a status bar and even then there is no message shown.

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MAdams1
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@David,
Is there an WF amper variable that can be tested to see if validation has failed? I want to test to see if all parameters have been satisfied before enabling a button on submit.
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Francis Mariani
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No message in the status bar if IE 8 - just a red rectangle around the control.

"Unless you have done something to prevent that" - I wonder what that could be, since I didn't do any customization.


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David Glick
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Here is a screenshot of IE9 with the red box and the message in the status bar. I've never tried to show an image on Focal Point, so I hope this works...



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David Glick
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There is a security setting that controls this. It is called "Allow status bar updates via script". For the Intranet Zone, it is enabled, for the Internet Zone, it is disabled.


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The reporting part of our product (implemented using WebFOCUS) is embedded in our product and therefore should look and feel the same. In the rest of our product, like almost everywhere else I can see on the internet, not providing a selection for a mandatory parameter results in the display of a red asterisk, plus a text indicating what the asterisks mean.
So my question is: "How can we make this happen in WebFOCUS?"

If the answer is "Do it yourself in JavaScript" I'd like to know whether WebFOCUS provides any support. I mean, can I detect somehow that WebFOCUS has put a red rectangle around an input control, and is there an array of input control IDs somewhere accessible that tells me what mandatory parameters are missing, and when the user enters one of these values can I detect this (e.g. by means of an update of this array)?

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Francis Mariani
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I use jQuery and do my own validation.


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