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MS Office Forum / Publisher / Web Design / October 2006REQUIRED FORM FIELDS??
Is there a way to make fields on a web form REQUIRED? Meaning that the person completing the form would get an error message if certain fields are left blank when they try to submit the form. I am using Publisher 2003.  Signaturesistrlyn No there is not. David Bartosik - [MSFT MVP] www.publishermvps.com www.davidbartosik.com > Is there a way to make fields on a web form REQUIRED? Meaning that the > person completing the form would get an error message if certain fields > are > left blank when they try to submit the form. I am using Publisher 2003. Actually, there is a place in the form control when you select a line Single line text box properties - Data Processing, you check the box that says This Control Must be Filled in By User. Which leads me to my question for you - I have been using this on webpages with success, however, my business webpage, for some reason, it is not working. I am using Publisher 2000. SignatureVisit me at www.frescaaire.com www.myrottweilerpups.com www.jugendlieberotts.com > Is there a way to make fields on a web form REQUIRED? Meaning that the > person completing the form would get an error message if certain fields are > left blank when they try to submit the form. I am using Publisher 2003. Lynn, I have understood that you cannot require a field in a form in Publisher. Could you post the URL of the page where your form is located, that does require a field, and the specific form control? DavidF > Actually, there is a place in the form control when you select a line > Single line text box properties - Data Processing, you check the box that [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] >> are >> left blank when they try to submit the form. I am using Publisher 2003. My website - www.myrottweilerpups.com/page7.html has a form control that works. The form control is the single line text. The contest has closed, but I can reopen the page so you can see how it worked. SignatureVisit me at www.frescaaire.com www.myrottweilerpups.com www.jugendlieberotts.com > Lynn, > [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > >> are > >> left blank when they try to submit the form. I am using Publisher 2003. I take that back. Rather than me reopening my photo contest, you can go to my www.frescaaire.com site and click on the link for selecting the right unit. That page will not submit without the e-mail link filled in. There is another page in this website - www.frescaaire.com/page9.html which has an order form that rquires the e-mail link. SignatureVisit me at www.frescaaire.com www.myrottweilerpups.com www.jugendlieberotts.com > Lynn, > [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > >> are > >> left blank when they try to submit the form. I am using Publisher 2003. Sorry, I added a page when my created form didn't work using the standard form control and the order page is now 10, not 9. SignatureVisit me at www.frescaaire.com www.myrottweilerpups.com www.jugendlieberotts.com > I take that back. Rather than me reopening my photo contest, you can go to > my www.frescaaire.com site and click on the link for selecting the right [quoted text clipped - 25 lines] > > >> are > > >> left blank when they try to submit the form. I am using Publisher 2003. Hi Lynn, Thanks. I learned something today. You can require a field in a form with Pub 2000, but not with Pub 2003. I didn't realize that MS had taken away that functionality. Now as to your question, are you still using Pub 2000 to produce the site where the required field function does not work? Are you hosting it with the same webhost? Does the form work, although it does not require the field? DavidF > Sorry, I added a page when my created form didn't work using the standard > form control and the order page is now 10, not 9. [quoted text clipped - 38 lines] >> > >> left blank when they try to submit the form. I am using Publisher >> > >> 2003. You asked: Now as to your question, are you still using Pub 2000 to produce the site where the required field function does not work? Are you hosting it with the same webhost? Does the form work, although it does not require the field? Yes, everything is the same, except that I was able to figure it out in my photo contest and couldn't figure it out for the business page. I have since deleted the ones that didn't work and put in a separate page using a prepared form from Publishers catalog which works. Can't figure out why the problem with them, but rather than drive myself crazy, I decided to go with the ready made one. Hope to figure it out thought just for understanding why. SignatureVisit me at www.frescaaire.com www.myrottweilerpups.com www.jugendlieberotts.com > Hi Lynn, > [quoted text clipped - 50 lines] > >> > >> left blank when they try to submit the form. I am using Publisher > >> > >> 2003. The only thing I can think of is that in the process of customizing the form, you did something different such as overlapping a form control with something else, or perhaps it is because the form controls are out of order, which might affect the JavaScript that is used to render a field as required. If you go to a page on one of your sites where the form with the required field does work, and open it in IE, then to the Menu > View > Source you will see the reference to the JavaScript. You can put the form controls back in order by rebuilding the form, but a user posted a faster way, and it is described at the end of this article by David Bartosik: Publisher web publication forms 101: http://msmvps.com/blogs/dbartosik/archive/2006/01/07/80564.aspx Sometimes I never figure out why things don't work, and like you I just rebuild things...or reboot :-) DavidF > You asked: > Now as to your question, are you still using Pub 2000 to produce the site [quoted text clipped - 77 lines] >> >> > >> Publisher >> >> > >> 2003.
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