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Making a dialog field mandatory only when visible

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Hi,

I have a drop down with 4 options (a, b, c, d). Upon selection of option b, I show certain fields and hide these fields when rest 3 options are selected. 

I followed https://levelup.gitconnected.com/aem-conditionally-show-or-hide-fields-in-touchui-dialogs-with-coral.... for the implementation and its working fine.

 

Problem: I need to make these conditional items mandatory only when they are visible (i.e, option b is selected). Adding the flag 

required="{Boolean}true" is not solving the purpose as AEM expect it to be filled up even when it is hidden.

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As @arunpatidar mentioned , you have to write custom Jquery to handle these. In you script , you have to see when the option b is selected , using script , set the property "aria-required" true , for these elements. I have done something similar in my proj , where I had to make fields mandatory when the tab is visible. Its the same logic. When your options are visible, you can use the below logic to set the fields mandatory

 

$("name='./<your field name>'").attr("aria-required", "true");

 

There are few more things you have to take care

  1. While setting the field true, add * symbol to the label via jquery  
  2. When the field is hidden, make sure you set the above values to false  and remove the * via jquery

 

If you are not good with Jquery , get help from a FE developer. 

 

Thanks

Veena

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@infinityskyline 

Set aria-required or/and required attribute values to false along with hiding the field and set true when showing the field.

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Hi,

you need to write custom validation instead of relying on OOTB required property.



Arun Patidar

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As @arunpatidar mentioned , you have to write custom Jquery to handle these. In you script , you have to see when the option b is selected , using script , set the property "aria-required" true , for these elements. I have done something similar in my proj , where I had to make fields mandatory when the tab is visible. Its the same logic. When your options are visible, you can use the below logic to set the fields mandatory

 

$("name='./<your field name>'").attr("aria-required", "true");

 

There are few more things you have to take care

  1. While setting the field true, add * symbol to the label via jquery  
  2. When the field is hidden, make sure you set the above values to false  and remove the * via jquery

 

If you are not good with Jquery , get help from a FE developer. 

 

Thanks

Veena

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@infinityskyline I am working on a very similar problem and I was wondering if you could share your solution. 
Based on the dropdown selection, i need to make my text field mandatory or required. I've searched and read so many forms, but it seems like nobody can explain it clearly.
If you could share a snippet of your code/solution, i think that would help me to understand it better.
I don't wanna ask this question in the form because i know they will direct me to the same, unclear solutions where they just show u 1 line of code.
Your assistance is greatly appreciated.

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Hi, infinityskyline,

 

Did you find the solution? if yes can you please share the snnipet code. I am also facing the same issue.

 

Thanks,

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@Deleted Account after many days of struggle, I was able to make it work. Below is the snippet from my dialog. I renamed the field names to make them easier for you so you could trance them better. I hope you will find this useful. It may not be perfect or may need some code refactoring. I will leave that part for others to comment and make improvements.


Dialog:

 

<selectOptions
      granite:class="cq-dialog-dropdown-showhide-multi validate-me"
      jcr:primaryType="nt:unstructured"                        
      sling:resourceType="granite/ui/components/coral/foundation/form/select"
      fieldLabel="Select Options"
      name="./selectOptions">
      <items jcr:primaryType="nt:unstructured">
            <optionOne
                  jcr:primaryType="nt:unstructured"
                  text="Option One"
                  value="whenOptionOneSelected"/>
            <optionTwo
                  jcr:primaryType="nt:unstructured"
                  text="Option Two"
                  value="whenOptionTwoSelected"
                  required="false"/>
      </items>
      <granite:data
            jcr:primaryType="nt:unstructured"
            cq-dialog-dropdown-showhide-target=".dropdown_class1"/>
</selectOptions>
<whenOptionOneSelected
      granite:class="hide dropdown_class1"
      jcr:primaryType="nt:unstructured"
      sling:resourceType="granite/ui/components/coral/foundation/container">
      <granite:data
            jcr:primaryType="nt:unstructured"
            showhidetargetvalue="whenOptionOneSelected"/>
            <items jcr:primaryType="nt:unstructured">
                  <linkurl
                        jcr:primaryType="nt:unstructured"
                        sling:resourceType="granite/ui/components/coral/foundation/form/pathbrowser"
                        fieldLabel="Link URL"
                        name="./linkurl"
                        rootPath="/content/xxx"/>
            </items>
</whenOptionOneSelected>
<whenOptionTwoSelected
      granite:class="hide dropdown_class1"
      jcr:primaryType="nt:unstructured"
      sling:resourceType="granite/ui/components/coral/foundation/container">
      <granite:data
            jcr:primaryType="nt:unstructured"
            showhidetargetvalue="whenOptionTwoSelected"/>
            <items jcr:primaryType="nt:unstructured">
                  <makeMandatory
                         jcr:primaryType="nt:unstructured"
                         sling:resourceType="granite/ui/components/foundation/form/textfield"
                         fieldDescription="Make this field visible and mandatory when Option Two is selected"
                         fieldLabel="Make this field visible and mandatory when Option Two is selected"
                         name="./makemandatory"/>
            </items>
</whenOptionTwoSelected>

 

 
Here is the js file:

 /**
  * Custom Field Validation
  * This validation is to set the "makeMandatory" field to be required based on the dropdown select option.
  * To be specific, makes "makeMandatory" field required when Option Two is selected.
  */
  (function(document, $) {
    "use strict";

    // when dialog gets injected
    $(document).on("foundation-contentloaded", function(e) {
       validationHandler($(".validate-me", e.target));
    });

    $(document).on("selected", ".validate-me", function(e) {
       validationHandler($(this));
    });

    function validationHandler(el) {
        el.each(function(i, element) {
            if ($(element).is("coral-select")) {
                // handle Coral3 base drop-down
                Coral.commons.ready(element, function(component) {
                    makeFieldMandatory(component, element);
                    component.on("change", function() {
                        makeFieldMandatory(component, element);
                    });
                });
            } else {
                // handle Coral2 based drop-down
                var component = $(element).data("select");
                if (component) {
                    makeFieldMandatory(component, element);
                }
            }
        })
    }

    function makeFieldMandatory(component, element) {
        // get the selector to find the target elements. its stored as data-.. attribute
        var target = $(element).data("cqDialogDropdownShowhideTarget");
        var $target = $(target);

        if (target) {
            var selectedItem = "whenOptionTwoSelected";
            if (component.value !== selectedItem) {
               // if selected item is NOT Option Two, set the .makemandatory required to False.
               $('input[name="./makemandatory"]').prop('required',false);
            } else {
               // if selected item is Option Two, set the .makemandatory required to True.
               $('input[name="./makemandatory"]').prop('required',true);
            }

        }
    }

})(document, Granite.$);


Final Result:

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