Form validation error!

[flexbay]

Hi ,

I have a form with a text field 'myTxt' and this is an Optional field.

However I have NumberValidator defined for this text field so that it should
accept only numbers if data is entered.

I follow these steps

1) enter text 'ABCD' in 'myTxt' field and submit the form
2) returns an error message - (Yes it should accept only numbers).
3) Delete all the text in myTxt field so that its empty and submit the form
again.
4) returns the message 'This is a required field'.

I am really puzzled by this error since the 'myTxt' field is an OPTIONAL one.

Basically I want the Validator to validate this field only when some text is
available otherwise it should just ignore it.

Any help here would be appreciated.

Thanks.

[Ken D. Nelson]

You are probably going to have to create your own validate that accepts "" (Empty String) as a valid value. There is an example of something similar to this in the samples. Look for RequiredField Validator.as

class RequiredFieldValidator extends mx.validators.Validator {

function doValidation(value) : Void {
if (value=="" || value==null ) {
validationError("required", "Required field.");
}
}

}



you would just do the opposite and also add that the value needs to be a number.

Ken



"flexbay" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message news:d36lel$t6o$1@forums.macromedia.com...

> Hi ,
>
> I have a form with a text field 'myTxt' and this is an Optional field.
>
> However I have NumberValidator defined for this text field so that it should
> accept only numbers if data is entered.
>
> I follow these steps
>
> 1) enter text 'ABCD' in 'myTxt' field and submit the form
> 2) returns an error message - (Yes it should accept only numbers).
> 3) Delete all the text in myTxt field so that its empty and submit the form
> again.
> 4) returns the message 'This is a required field'.
>
> I am really puzzled by this error since the 'myTxt' field is an OPTIONAL one.
>
> Basically I want the Validator to validate this field only when some text is
> available otherwise it should just ignore it.
>
> Any help here would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks.
>
>