a dropdown as a required field

[stevec]

Hi,

I'm having an odd issue with custom dropdowns.

What I want to achieve is a dropdown of items - lets call them territories. I was users to pick a territory (europe, amiercas, asia) and so I want the field to be 'required'. However, i don't want it to default to any of the items. So ideally, when creating the record, the field is blank but the user needs to pick one of the three values for the system to be able to save the record.

Now, if I create the dropdown with the three values (europe, americas, asia) and mark the field as required - then when creating the record, it defaults to europe (the first item in the list). If I add an empty item to the top of the dropdown (so it displays as "-blank- [-blank-]" - then the list looks empty when the record is created -but the system lets the blank value be saved.

Is the the standard behaviour? It's a custom module with a custom field - but I've retrospectively set it as required via the custom vardefs.

Any thoughts welcome.

[crmsiva]

Hi

This is strange. Generally, blank values are stored as '' => '' in the file custom/include/language/en_us.lang.php. Make sure it is stored as same.

To make a field as required one, you can simply change in editviewdefs.php?

[stevec]

Hi,

Yes - the fist entry in custom/include/language/en_us.lang.php is '' => ''.

And in e custom editviewdefs.php, the array for that field contains:

            'displayParams' =>
            array (
              'required' => true,
            ),

On editing, the field has the red asterisk. it's just that it seems to treat ''=>'' as a regular value.

[crmsiva]

Since it is a custom field. You can set is as required one through studio?

May be problem is due to the code change you have made in custom vardefs.

Interface is displaying the text -blank- ? Could you post a screenshot to understand better?

[stevec]

Hi,

No, it's showing no text - just the empty row in the drop down. here's a screenshot of the editview when creating a new record - I've opened up the dropdown (subscription country) and you can see that the first item is the blank row.

[crmsiva]

Hi

Very strange. Could you upload custom language file and editviewdefs file? So that i can have a look.

[stevec]

Sure - here's the editviewdefs file and the relevant section from the custom language file (I'm afraid there is some private details in the full file so I had to cut those out).

Some of the countries have odd characters which might appear strange depending on your editor.

Thanks for this,

[crmsiva]

I couldn't able to reproduce the problem using the attached files. Very strange..