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I have a component where its baked in and have mandatory fields.
when component is authored and later if  the components needs to be un authored  . It is not switching back to default state and displays previously authored content.

solutions I thought of
1.having a delete can  be an option (but it might drive into wrong direction for authors)

2. making fields not required ( it's against business rules ).

Any suggestions apart from what I have mentioned.  

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well this is happening because default post servlet is not triggered when validation for dialog fields return false(mandatory fields can't be empty). to over come this you have two options:\

1. create two tabs second tabs will be hidden, first tab will have a check box or radio button to enable or disable the component configuration, second tan will have your component dialog widgets.

one you enable the check box from tab one tab 2 will be enabled and you can configure this as per you requirement. when you don't need this component just select the disable option and this will trigger a listener which will delete the jcr content stored against tab 2 and disable to tab 2 which will allow you to submit the post servlet via default behavior.

2. Alternatively You can use a listeners, which will execute when dialog before submit. In that listener you can write js code to check if value is "" (empty) , the set the value to "N/A".

Help link: https://myprogressivelearning.wordpress.com/2015/01/21/setting-default-value-to-the-drop-down-of-dia...

Code will be similar to 

 
  1. function(dialog){
  2. x= dialog.findParentByType('dialog').getField('./vocLevel');
  3. if(x.getValue()=="")
  4. x.setValue("N/A");
  5. }

then Don't use NA value to display in your JSP or sightly; using NA will allow you to submit the value successfully.

 

Regards,

Amit

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well this is happening because default post servlet is not triggered when validation for dialog fields return false(mandatory fields can't be empty). to over come this you have two options:\

1. create two tabs second tabs will be hidden, first tab will have a check box or radio button to enable or disable the component configuration, second tan will have your component dialog widgets.

one you enable the check box from tab one tab 2 will be enabled and you can configure this as per you requirement. when you don't need this component just select the disable option and this will trigger a listener which will delete the jcr content stored against tab 2 and disable to tab 2 which will allow you to submit the post servlet via default behavior.

2. Alternatively You can use a listeners, which will execute when dialog before submit. In that listener you can write js code to check if value is "" (empty) , the set the value to "N/A".

Help link: https://myprogressivelearning.wordpress.com/2015/01/21/setting-default-value-to-the-drop-down-of-dia...

Code will be similar to 

 
  1. function(dialog){
  2. x= dialog.findParentByType('dialog').getField('./vocLevel');
  3. if(x.getValue()=="")
  4. x.setValue("N/A");
  5. }

then Don't use NA value to display in your JSP or sightly; using NA will allow you to submit the value successfully.

 

Regards,

Amit

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Hi Amit,

it worked for me what all you have suggested. Thanks a lot. 

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i have one more question.
the same scenario applies for all templates except one were baked in component needs to be authored manually meaning the it will be not generated dynamically .

So when i try unauthor it is displaying N/A value(for the template where it is not dynamically generated).

 

need help here