you can do
for e in form.elements('input#id'): e['hideerror']=True
and matching fields would not display errors.
On Apr 6, 4:30 am, DenesL <[email protected]> wrote:
> In principle I agree that it looks bad to have the same error pop up
> for each radio field, but the reality is that each option is handled
> as a separate entity even in the HTML code, so I doubt this is an easy
> one to "fix".
>
> It is also a matter of interpretation, to go back to your example, all
> of them would be in error if no particular one was chosen.
>
> On Apr 5, 9:08 pm, bluemoth <[email protected]> wrote:
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> > Hi,
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> > I originally thought the FIELDSET might hold the solution but no.
> > Maybe it can be used.
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> > Otherwise, I think the solution might be to recognise that the radio
> > buttons relate to the same field and treat them as a group. But we
> > still need an appropriate place/target to report the error. This could
> > be after the last input (radio button) or a defined target in the
> > validator e.g., require=IS_NOT_EMPTY(error_target='target')
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> > It's not an urgent issue. I did some searching and couldn't find the
> > solution. I will want to overcome this later but don't want to
> > implement my own solution if one exists or can be added.
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> > Cheers, Duane.
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> > On Apr 6, 12:55 pm, bluemoth <[email protected]> wrote:
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> > > Thanks DenesL,
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> > > It was probably the wrong example. I simplified my case but in my case
> > > I do expect errors to be reported so I was wanting to group the error
> > > messages for the radio buttons into one message.
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> > > Cheers, Duane.
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> > > On Apr 6, 10:56 am, DenesL <[email protected]> wrote:
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> > > > Hello,
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> > > > to eliminate the possibility of an error message, I would rewrite as:
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> > > > db.languages.language.default = 'english' # or any other in the list
> > > > db.languages.language.requires = IS_IN_SET(['english', 'french',
> > > > 'german'])
> > > > db.languages.language.widget = SQLFORM.widgets.radio.widget
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> > > > On Apr 5, 6:32 pm, bluemoth <[email protected]> wrote:
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> > > > > Hello all,
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> > > > > If I have the following:
> > > > > db.define_table('languages', Field('language', 'string'))
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> > > > > db.languages.language.requires = \
> > > > > [IS_IN_SET(['english', 'french', 'german']), \
> > > > > IS_NOT_EMPTY(error_message='Value required')]
> > > > > db.languages.language.widget = SQLFORM.widgets.radio.widget
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> > > > > and I render a form that when submitted has no entry, it places an
> > > > > error message under each radio button.
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> > > > > Is there a way to present the one error message for the entire group
> > > > > of radio buttons?
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> > > > > Thanks for you help.
>
> > > > > Cheers, Duane.
