Loop through list of required fields then highlight/set focus

[iamthewalrus]

Yet another one that should be straightforward but is giving me a headache!

I've set a validateForm.checkForm function on a button (not a submit button) where I'm sending in the form -

if

(validateForm.checkForm(xfa.form))

Within the checkForm function I'm doing the following initial steps:

function

{

    var myForm = completedForm.nameOfTopForm.nameOfSubformThatHoldsEverything;

checkForm(completedForm)

    var firstSubformName = myForm.nameOfFirstSubform;

If the firstSubformName is visible, I then check the value of the field inside it:

var

if (ddlUnderFirstSubform.rawValue == 1) // not selected

{

    // do stuff

}

Originally I was simply highlighting each required field in turn by doing:

highlightErrors(ddlUnderFirstSubform);

xfa.host.setFocus(ddlUnderFirstSubform);

This worked fine.

But then I wanted to keep a list of all the errors & highlight/setFocus to all at the same time, so:

var reqFieldsList = new String(); // set as global var

if (reqFieldsList == ""){reqFieldsList = reqFieldsList + ddlUnderFirstSubform;}

else{reqFieldsList = reqFieldsList + ',' + ddlUnderFirstSubform;}

When I've been through the whole form & try the following it doesn't work:

if

{

(reqFieldsList != "")    var reqFields = reqFieldsList.split(',');    var firstField = reqFields[0];    highlightErrors(firstField);xfa.host.messageBox('A message', 'Title for box', 0, 0); ddlUnderFirstSubform = firstSubformName.nameOfDropdown;

    xfa.host.setFocus(firstField);

}

app.alert on the firstField in both the original method & new list method shows that ddlUnderFirstSubform is [object XFAObject], but one method wors the other doesn't - any ideas?

Apologies for the long-winded message - by the way, I'm not using the in-built LiveCycle required unctionality but merely going through all fields that I know are mandatory.

Thanks,

[iamthewalrus]

It's ok - I've sorted it!

Turns out that as my reqFieldsList was a string, the objects saved in there that I was trying to reference would have been strings, hence none of the commands I set for them would work.

I have now created an array - var reqFieldsArr = new Array();

Pushed each required field object into it - reqFieldsArr.push(requiredFieldObject);

Then looped through them at the end -

if

(reqFieldsArr != null)

{

    var counter = reqFieldsArr.length;

    var firstField;

    for (var f=0; f<counter; f++)

    {

          highlightErrors(reqFieldsArr[f]);

          if (f == 0)

          {firstField

= reqFieldsArr[f];}

    }

    xfa.host.messageBox('A number of mandatory fields have not been completed. Please check through the form and complete the highlighted fields');

    xfa.host.setFocus(firstField);

    return false;

}

else

{

return true;}

Might help someone else.....