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Checkbox group validation? Want no submission unless one is checked.

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Tayana Jacques

7:21 pm October 16, 2008

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URL to the FORM: http://hypertension.stemdev.com/chep/ids/ids-mail-request/
The browser used: safari, firefox, ie
cforms version: 8.7
Your Wordpress version: 2.2.1

Hi, just wanted to thank you for this extremely powerful tool. The post-processing is my favorite thing to use.

I'm not having any issues with cformsII and have read the FAQs. I just was wondering if there was any way I could make this form show an error message, like the "required" message, letting the user know they MUST check at least one of the checkboxes.

I tried using post-processing to do that, printing a message that says to go back and check at least one document. I just don't want the form to be submitted at all, unless one of those checkboxes is clicked, though.

Does anyone know of a way to do this? I'm not sure if this can be done with a checkbox group?

Thanks in advance!

Tayana

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Oliver

Munich, Germany

9:56 pm October 16, 2008

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check box groups can't be required, for that you'd have to use a multi-drop-down box

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mores

11:15 am June 30, 2009

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So this is not possible at all? Not even with some magic in my-functions.php?

Oh dear …

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Oliver

Munich, Germany

7:30 am July 1, 2009

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anything can be coded, but it'd have to be custom code in the corms core – and I certainly wouldn't consider this a core feature as it would work against the nature of check boxes, which are inherently optional.

just like radio buttons of which one (in a group) is required, with a preselected first button.

a general note: please be aware that cforms is under GPL. now while for 99% of the users this only means: no costs, free source code and a community (or at least the author) maintaining it, it also comes with certain (legal) obligations around code modifications (in a nut shell: make sure to follow the custom code documentation process outlined by GPL).

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