Manually validate

Jonesie — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 04:24:45 GMT

We have a large form in 5 views that is running in Forms Server - web only. The validation messages and required field message displayed by Forms Server are fugly so we used a bunch of rules, a reference "error" attribute and a bit of xpath on a custom submit button to make things look better. The problem is the customer is not happy to do all this work for the remaining 20 or so forms they need. Instead they want to transfer all that complexity to C# ... go figure!

Anyways, I think the way to do this is to create a submit handler that will do the validation and cancel or not. This is easy enough, but it means moving all the validation logic to code.

So, finally, my questions:

1) is it possible to execute the validation settings in controls from code? Eg, by looping through all the controls in the collection?

2) is it possible to disable the default validation? I created a real simple form with required fields and the default validation fires before submitting, regardless of what I do in the submit handler.

Thanks muchly.

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Manually validate