Re: QuickForm + "soft" rules.

On 5/27/05, Justin Patrin <papercrane@gmail.com> wrote: > On 5/27/05, Edward Grace <ej.grace@imperial.ac.uk> wrote: > > Has anyone else come across the need to add "soft" (rules that the user can > > choose to override) validation rules to QuickForm objects? > > > > What I mean by this is a typical scenario where you may have a rule that > > checks that a person has entered their name according to some case formatting > > so for example. > > > > Surname > > > > Rather than > > > > sURnaMe > > > > There are however situations where the case formatting of a surname could not > > fit into the typical box of "capital first letter, the rest lowercase" hence > > not being able to use a filter rule. For example the surnames > > > > van Blogger > > al Tranger > > McTaggert > > > > Clearly break this "convention". Of course one could add exceptions for > > "van", "al" "Mc" prefixes but you still can't guarentee > > catching them all > > with a "strong" validation rule. > > > > What would be useful is to have a soft validation rule whereby, if it fails > > the usual message appears along with a checkbox saying "Yes I really want to > > submit this" that would override the associated rule. > > > > This can be done with some hacking about using groups, rules etc but it would > > be nice to have a addSoftRule() method, or some such that would generate the > > appropriate elements if the validation failed, and deal with overriding the > > rule if the checkbox is set. > > > > Have people looked at this before? I imagine it is a common want. > > > > Sounds like a great idea. In fact, it's a *little* like the > preValidationCallback option I added to my SubForm element. I'll see > if I can find a few minutes to see if I can hack something up. > Hmmm.....well my quick look didn't turn up anything easy. If anyone else can get this working it would be great. Or a feature request for QF would be good. -- Justin Patrin