Conditionally required fields
Feature Requests
I often have a need to require one of two fields, or require another field only if another field is filled in. I don’t have any brainwaves on exactly how it would work, but I’d love to see a way to be able to do some sort of conditional requirements like this.
You should be able to do this if you’re using the Validation service. Here’s some docs on conditionally-required fields. And if you need more control, there’s Custom Conditional Rules.
I’m not sure if we’re talking about the same thing or not. I mean all fieldtypes for an entry in general. I’m talking higher level than validating fields in my own custom field type. I mean as I’m laying out channel entires as a general developer in ExpressionEngine and designing the content structure. There may be some fields that I need to require along with others, and some fields I don’t want to require if another field is filled in.
Ahh sorry, I thought you meant form inputs in general. Well the underlying code for the actual validation is there, sounds like we just need a UI to hook up rules for channel fields. Thanks for the suggestion!
Funnily enough, I just today re-read the Note I created for myself when you mentioned something similar at #eeconf in October.
Did I mention this at eeconf? It’s like I think the same thoughts all the time. At least I’m consistent. 😊
I think so? When we were talking about making field requirement a per channel setting. If not, my mind went there. 😊
Oh, I probably did mention it, I just didn’t have the hard drive space to store that particular bit apparently. I’ve wished it could be done before. It came up again today and I thought why not post it where it can get some attention.
I do remember discussing that when fieldtypes are decoupled from field groups whether they are required or not would need to be a setting when adding them to a channel, and not always for that field. So my mind is not completely gone. 🐛