topic Make at least one of the fields in a fields_group mandatory in CMS Development

Make at least one of the fields in a fields_group mandatory

j_quibler — Tue, 06 Oct 2020 11:53:02 GMT

I am working on a module where a person can have multiple contact information, but at least one is required, (meaning one or more must be filled in). In the example below, member_item is a repeatable group.

How can I force the required option for a group of fields so that if at least one of the fields in the group is filled in correctly, the validation passes, otherwise it fails.

I notice the group does not have any required settings, only individual fields have.

Re: Make at least one of the fields in a fields_group mandatory

Kevin-C — Tue, 06 Oct 2020 14:44:26 GMT

Hey @j_quibler

I'm not entirely sure that this is possible. Maybe using the CLI tools?

If I were in your shoes, I would require as a minimum the email address (from a UX perspective probably the easiest for a customer to give out), create a dropdown for the user to select their 'prefered' method of contact (if thats the purpose), and have the other fields show up conditionally based on the dropdown choice.

Re: Make at least one of the fields in a fields_group mandatory

j_quibler — Wed, 07 Oct 2020 20:32:55 GMT

Thanks Kevin. Your reply helped, in that I searched for a different angle towards this. Knowing I can't affect the way validation works, I made the whole contacts section a repeater group with only two fields: contact_type (a choice field with 3 choices: phone, email and linkedin) and contact_data, and set the number of minimal repetitions to 1. The requirements I work with were pretty speciffic in that I were to have *any* of the fields filled in and couldn't simply make one of them required.

topic Make *at least* one of the fields in a fields_group mandatory in CMS Development

Make *at least* one of the fields in a fields_group mandatory

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Re: Make *at least* one of the fields in a fields_group mandatory

topic Make at least one of the fields in a fields_group mandatory in CMS Development

Make at least one of the fields in a fields_group mandatory

Re: Make at least one of the fields in a fields_group mandatory

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