put a dropdown field as obligatory

[garciasanchezdaniel]

Hello everybody, I have a little issue.
I have a field type dropdown with 5 values - one of these 5 values is value blank, that I create from studio adding to the dropdown value blank -
And now, when I create a new record, I need this field as obligatory, so I edited editviewdefs.php adding to the field:

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

Now, appear the *, so this field is now obligatory. I tested to save a record without choose a value of this dropdown field, but the record saved correctly, because value blank is attended as a normal value!!!! But I don't want this, I'd like attend value blank that don't permit save a record!!
Any suggestions?
Thanks
Daniel

[collinlee]

Hi,

I'm not sure which version you're using, but I believe in the 6.x versions, you can just check the required checkbox in the studio editor for the field and this should make the dropdown field required (of course you should ensure you have a blank entry shown as the first option, but seems like this is already the case with your dropdown).

[garciasanchezdaniel]

Hi,

I'm not sure which version you're using, but I believe in the 6.x versions, you can just check the required checkbox in the studio editor for the field and this should make the dropdown field required (of course you should ensure you have a blank entry shown as the first option, but seems like this is already the case with your dropdown).

Hello collinlee, thanks for your reply.
I'm in Versión 5.2.0c (Build 5505)
I will test you tell me I hope that checking the field as required (from studio) solves my problem

[rafael.q.g@hotmail.com]

Empty values ("") are treated as not filled option and the dropdown field has to be validated.
Try to find the dropdown list on your language files and verify if what you have is really a empty option or if it is just blank (with some spaces included).

[garciasanchezdaniel]

I solved it. What I did was go to studio to mark the field as required, and make a quick repair and rebuild...and now when I try to create a new record, I can not, I have to choose a value of the dropdown Thanks!!!