topic Alfresco Share forms: how to define a custom validation-handler for a non-mandatory field? in Alfresco Archive https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/alfresco-share-forms-how-to-define-a-custom-validation-handler/m-p/284405#M237535 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I have already read the Alfresco documentation as well as the wiki, but still it does not get clear: what's the proper way to define a custom validation-handler for a certain field in an Alfresco Share form?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>The problem is that the approach that I found everywhere in the forum always overrides the MANDATORY type, so the validation handler only gets called if the field is set to mandatory="true".</SPAN><BR /><BR /><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE><BR />&lt;config evaluator="aspect" condition="my:aspect"&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;forms&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;form&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;field-visibility&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;show id="my:property" /&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/field-visibility&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;appearance&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;field id="my:property" mandatory="true"&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;constraint-handlers&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;constraint type="MANDATORY" validation-handler="Alfresco.forms.validation.myValidator" event="keyup" /&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/constraint-handlers&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/field&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/appearance&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/form&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/forms&gt;<BR />&lt;/config&gt;<BR /><SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN></CODE></PRE><BR /><BR /><SPAN>But how to define a custom validation-handler for &lt;strong&gt;a field that is not mandatory&lt;/strong&gt;? Or else, which is the correct type to choose/override? I tried </SPAN><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE>type="LENGTH"<SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN></CODE></PRE><SPAN> instead, but this also does not get called when the user enters something in the form field and the field.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Fri, 20 Dec 2013 19:46:33 GMT mathias_lin 2013-12-20T19:46:33Z Alfresco Share forms: how to define a custom validation-handler for a non-mandatory field? https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/alfresco-share-forms-how-to-define-a-custom-validation-handler/m-p/284405#M237535 I have already read the Alfresco documentation as well as the wiki, but still it does not get clear: what's the proper way to define a custom validation-handler for a certain field in an Alfresco Share form?The problem is that the approach that I found everywhere in the forum always overrides the MA Fri, 20 Dec 2013 19:46:33 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/alfresco-share-forms-how-to-define-a-custom-validation-handler/m-p/284405#M237535 mathias_lin 2013-12-20T19:46:33Z Re: Alfresco Share forms: how to define a custom validation-handler for a non-mandatory field? https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/alfresco-share-forms-how-to-define-a-custom-validation-handler/m-p/284406#M237536 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Is Javascript solution acceptable? If it is, you can create/add a form or field validators in your dashlet or component code. </SPAN></BODY></HTML> Thu, 02 Jan 2014 15:03:12 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/alfresco-share-forms-how-to-define-a-custom-validation-handler/m-p/284406#M237536 zladuric 2014-01-02T15:03:12Z