Invalid Populated Field In Child

[SteveE]

Hi Alexander,

Many times when populating fields in the child form, I make them read-only so they match the parent. The issue I’ve run into is that if it populates a field such as people picker and that user no longer exists, it won’t allow the user to save the child. There’s no indication as to why – it just bumps up to the top of the form. When I troubleshoot, I release the read-only rule to find that the people picker will rightfully not accept the now invalid user.

I’m wondering if there is a way to show the user the indicator that the populated (and read-only) field cannot be validated. Or any other suggestions you may have. Thanks for your time!

[Alexander Bautz]

Hi,
You can add this to your custom js to make a field editable when a validation error exists:

setInterval(function(){
    jQuery(".ms-formvalidation").each(function(i, elm){
        var tr = jQuery(elm).parents("tr:first");
        var fin = tr.attr("id").split("dffs_")[1];
        var isReadonly = tr.hasClass("dffs-readonly");
        if(fin !== undefined && isReadonly){
            spjs.dffs.undoReadOnly([fin]);
        }
    });
},3000);

Let me know how this works out.

Alexander

[SteveE]

That works! Awesome as always!

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