InfoPath Dev

 Form Validation Messaging

Can someone please help me design a clean way to show error messages when the User click on "Submit" button without filling in all the required fields.

I have an InfoPath form now with a number of required fields. If a User click Submit without filling in the requried fields, I like to display an error message either right next to the required field or somewhere on the form or as a pop-up message.

 But if they have filled in all the required fields, then the Submit button has a bunch of actions that it will complete. So the above step should also prevent those Actions from taking place as well.

 If someone has an example file that can be shared here, that would be greatly appreciated. 

Thank you.

Unfortunately, without using code, you'll need to use specific rules for this on your submit rules. So, you could have in your main data source an "error" field, and if a field is missing data, add to the error message field and display that on your form. I'm attaching a simple sample of what I'd do. Save it locally by right clicking the link and using the save option in your browser, then right click the saved file, select Design and you can preview from there.

 Wow.. that's beautiful. That's a neat trick. I can implement that. :-)

I have quite a few fields. So is there anyway to add CRLF to the text so that it will appear as:

field1 can't be blank
field2 can't be blank
field3 can't be blank

And then (I am being greedy), I am assuming that doing a If-else, do-while loop kind of programming to go through all fields and create that message would not be possible. Just curious. 

So - this link will help you with your line break: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/blogs/infopath/inserting-line-breaks-into-text-using-rules

As to a loop - no such luck without code. :) 

Okay. thank you for your support Hillary .

I have seen the solution at the link you provided for CRLF. But the problem is that it has to GET data/file from the server. Within our organization, the SharePoint is fairly restrictive and as such I cannot guarantee that the read/get from server always happens. So that solution, while elegant, probably will be bit risky in our network.

But thatst okay I will just keep it simple.

Thanks for your time. 

No. It doesn't. You can include the XML as a resource file in the template which doesn't require queries?