On Friday 11 November 2011, Idan Arbel wrote: Hide want you want with jquery, no messing with validators as the form elements are all still there, just not visible to the user.
thanks but I’m not sure #access is what I need:
this is and edit form, a long form with multiple field groups.
If the user access the site in with profile/2/edit/company
I’d like to hide all field groups instead of those in the company field group, but have them keep their pre-entered values.
Doesn’t access deny access to the field?
I don’t mind changing the required to FALSE since I’m hiding the field anyway…
Idan
From: development-bounces@drupal.org [mailto:development-bounces@drupal.org] On Behalf Of Randy Fay Sent: Friday, November 11, 2011 5:55 PM To: development@drupal.org Subject: Re: [development] Hidden required select field with default value
I think you have to make your own validation function instead of using the one that comes by default and supports #required.
Use #access (not #hidden) to hide the field.
Then in your validator, check to see whether it's OK that the field is not filled in, and notify as needed.
-Randy
On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 8:50 AM, Idan Arbel <idan@arbel-designs.com> wrote:
When setting the #type = hidden
The field is hidden, but when trying to submit the form I get an error about the fields being required.
Looking at the $form dump, I see that the select field has a default value. (a term id).
I tried changing the Required to false when hiding but then the field looses its value.
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