I have a listbox which acts as a list of items. If you click on some item, it's contents are shown in the panel on the right (few textboxes etc.).
I need to have a validation on these controls as all of them are required fields. And I do have it. The problem is that, even when the validators are not valid, user can click the listbox and change active index (that doesn't have impact on the panel on the right, as SelectedIndexChanged isn't fired).
The validators are standard RequiredFieldValidator with their Display property set to "Dynamic". So, what I want is to disallow the user clicking on the listbox and changing the index untill all validators are Valid.
What would be your solution for that? Is that even possible?
Did you try setting ListBox.Enabled = false when you actually do fire off the SelectedIndexChanged, and reenabling when your required fields meet the Page.IsValid requirement to proceed in code execution?
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I have a situation where I have a form that has some validation controls for required fields. They fire just fine if the user does not have the required fields.
The thing is I also have a menu above the form which allows the user to select another location which is then reflected on the form.
This is where I run into an issue...
If the user already selected a location and then wishes to change to a different location, the form does not allow for this as required fields have not been entered.
I was wondering if there is a way to tell the validation controls not to fire in these situation.
My other option would be to do a validation on click of the submit button in which case I would not be able to take advantage of the ASP.NET required validation control.
Basically I want the validation to occur for the required fields only if the submit button is clicked.
Look at CausesValidation and ValidationGroup properties. I think they will help you to solve your problem
On the menu item set CausesValidation to false.
You can also use validation groups and set the validationgroup property of the validator and the submit button to the same value.
I have the following scenario. I have a page that hosts several user controls. The user controls are all surrounded by a single update panel. All user controls have a save button on them. When the save buttons are clicked the page updates the update panel as expected.
Some of the user controls contain editable list views. Whenever an action is taken on these list views, the Update Panel is NOT refreshed, but the whole page posts back. How can I get these ListViews to also refresh the Update Panel? I cannot post the code because of NDA.
There are no javascript errors on the page reported by either IE8 or Chrome.
Check the autopostback property of the dropdownlist control, if the property is set to true it tries to postback every time the selection changes.
If this does not work for you, you may wish to try implementing manual update triggers in your controls code and setting the update panel to conditional, to firmly control when you want the panel to update.
I would like to perform a postback when the droplistlist selected value changes, but only if it was changed via expanding the downdown and clicking an option, not is the user tabs to the control and uses the arrow keys. The reason for this is simple, keyboard accessibility.
Postbacks are triggered using __doPostBack('uniqueidofcontrol', 'commandname'); so when the list changes value (I believe in onchange event), it posts to the server. You would need to not set autopostback. What you would need to do is tap into the click event (if there is one) and then call __doPostBack(..) method upon that event.
HTH.
I have a little problem with the validation in one form
the form is composed by two taqs. There is a "Save" button in each tap (is the same control for both) and saves the form info. there are validation controls in one tab but not in the second. When we try to save the info from the second tab, and the info has not been filled in the first tab, the validators fire, and nothing happends, but because this validators are shown in the other tab, the end user might be thinking that the operation has been completed, instead, I would like to show a msgBox telling the user about the errors in the other tab. How do I know that the validators in the other tab have been fired, and display the error message when the button is clicked?
You should use the ValidationGroup of your validator controls and the appropriate submit button. You can also use a ValidationSummary control which displays a summary of the validation messages - this can be set to display a message box if you want by setting the property ShowMessageBox=true.
taqs - tap
dear why are you so confused?
All the validators are posted to the page as JavaScript functions. You can call the validation function on button's click and take the appropriate action.
You can use on buttons
onClientClick="Page_ClientValidate();"
I have an ASP.NET entry form where several controls have validation set up. The form also includes a display of previous records, each with a LinkButton control that acts as a delete button. Problem is when a LinkButton is clicked, it performs validation on the entry portion of the form, fails, and the delete is not processed. I didn't write this form and I'm not up on the validation controls, and I'm just adding the delete buttons, so how would I work around this?
Set CausesValidation to false for the control in question?
Are you saying that there are buttons on the form that when clicked are causing validation to take place...and that these buttons should not peform the validation?
If so, then you probably need to group all the controls and buttons that are part of the validation. To do this you set the 'ValidationGroup' property for each control involved in the validation (this includes the buttons that fire off the validation).
This should stop buttons that are not part of the validation, firing the validation process.
Check this link out:
http://www.w3schools.com/ASPNET/prop_webcontrol_imagebutton_validationgroup.asp
and
http://www.dotnet-guide.com/validationgroups.html