clientSideValidateField method seems to have changed in latest release.

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V12.4.5.4.7 Build 5487

It's never much fun when something that was working stops working after an Alpha version update, affecting customers.

I had a ux that would use client side validation to validate fields on click of a button. If the validation failed, the validation errors would be displayed. If validation was fine, panel nav would occur.

This was my code that worked for a long time but stopped working in one of the recent releases. As a result the ux refused to navigate, even when validation was fine.

var result = {dialog.Object}.clientSideValidateField('DOB');

if(result == true) {
{dialog.object}.panelNavigate('PANELNAVIGATOR_1','Next');
}

Looking at the help for the {dialog.Object}.clientSideValidateField method it would appear the return value has changed from true to ''. This is the new code that works.

var result = {dialog.Object}.clientSideValidateField('DOB');

if(result == '') {
{dialog.object}.panelNavigate('PANELNAVIGATOR_1','Next');
}

Hope this helps anyone else that has the same issue.

[Davidk]

Re: clientSideValidateField method seems to have changed in latest release.

I reported on this here in the forums a while ago... it's a significant, undocumented, nasty change.

https://forum.alphasoftware.com/show...alidateField()

[[email protected]]

Re: clientSideValidateField method seems to have changed in latest release.

This is a significant change and directly effects how I do validation in most apps. I understand your example however I am wondering what the value of false is if true is ''. Any help is appreciated trying to apply it to this function and am missing something
var controlsToValidate = ['CUSTOMERID','CUSTOMERNAME','SERVICEOFFERING','SERVICEOFFERINGID','TICKETSTATUSID','LOCATION','LOCATIONID','ROOM','LOCATIONROOMID','POINTOFCONTACT','POINTOFCONTACTEMAIL','POINTOFCONTACTPHONE','TICKET_SUMMARY','TICKETDESCRIPTION'];
var flagHasError = '';
var result = '';
for(var i = 0; i < controlsToValidate.length; i++) {
result = {dialog.object}.clientSideValidateField(controlsToValidate[i],1);
if(typeof result == 'string') flagHasError != '';

}
alert(result);
alert(flagHasError);
if (flagHasError == '')

[[email protected]]

Re: clientSideValidateField method seems to have changed in latest release.

This method validates a field that has validation rules configured - via the Validation rules property for each field.

no validation error returns ''
a validation error returns whatever error msg is returned from the validation you have on the field.

In my example I'm just checking that there aren't any validation errors using if(result == '')

[Davidk]

Re: clientSideValidateField method seems to have changed in latest release.

This is a significant change and directly effects how I do validation in most apps. I understand your example however I am wondering what the value of false is if true is ''. Any help is appreciated trying to apply it to this function and am missing something
var controlsToValidate = ['CUSTOMERID','CUSTOMERNAME','SERVICEOFFERING','SERVICEOFFERINGID','TICKETSTATUSID','LOCATION','LOCATIONID','ROOM','LOCATIONROOMID','POINTOFCONTACT','POINTOFCONTACTEMAIL','POINTOFCONTACTPHONE','TICKET_SUMMARY','TICKETDESCRIPTION'];
var flagHasError = '';
var result = '';
for(var i = 0; i < controlsToValidate.length; i++) {
result = {dialog.object}.clientSideValidateField(controlsToValidate[i],1);
if(typeof result == 'string') flagHasError != '';

}
alert(result);
alert(flagHasError);
if (flagHasError == '')

There is no true and false any longer. If an empty string is returned there is no error. Your code doesn't seem quite right in that you are testing typeof result but not setting flagHasError. You can't say flagHasError != '' - that is not an assignment.

Alpha doc is no longer being updated. The doc for this method still uses typeof string... but it's always a string being returned now. Have a look at my other post for a workaround.

[frankiez]

Re: clientSideValidateField method seems to have changed in latest release.

Try this code.
If result has a validation text error, set the flagHasError to true once. The code continues to iterate and ignore subsequent results. You only need one error to prevent an action.

var contolsToValidate = ['TXT1','TXT2','TXT3'];
var flagHasError = false;
var result = '';


for(var i = 0; i < contolsToValidate.length; i++) {
result = {dialog.object}.clientSideValidateField(contolsToValidate[i],1);
if(flagHasError == false)
{if(result != '') flagHasError = true;}

}
if(flagHasError == false) {dialog.object}.panelSetActive('PANELCARD_2');

[frankiez]

Re: clientSideValidateField method seems to have changed in latest release.

Keep this in mind. If you write Validation Java script for a text box control, be sure to keep returning true or false and not ''

if (data == '') {return 'value required';} else {return true;}

This does not work: if (data == '') {return 'value required';} else {return '';}