Well, if the user doesn't learn their lesson about whatever is failing their attempted data entry after the first couple of prompts, I'd think they'd have bigger challenges in their life. ;-}
Seriously, while I think we would all discourage use of any form with 200 inputs (and the ideas recommended to consider a multi-page or multi-tab interface were again good ones), I'd think that getting prompted at each entry would be MORE effective in a form with lots of inputs. But it's certainly a judgment call that may vary per app, per company, per user base, and so on. But my point was to raise the observation for everyone who uses CFFORM (or doesn't, because they didn't like the onsubmit validation which was previously the only option.) /charlie From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Aaron Rouse Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2009 1:21 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [houcfug] Re: CFFORM Question Don't you think that would get old quickly for the user on a page with 200 or so inputs? I know come about my 15th mistake I would be rather annoyed by my 15th alert box. Although I still think that is just way too many inputs for one page for any user who still maintains some level of sanity. On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 11:52 AM, charlie arehart <[email protected]> wrote: Ramon (and others who might ever face such a challenge), while all the suggestions so far are good ones, still one more that may suit your needs would be to change CF's validation to happen when the user leaves the field, rather than waiting until they submit the form. That's now an option, as of CF 7, though many missed the change. There's a new ValidateAt attribute, and the values are onsubmit, onblur, and onserver. <snip> . --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the "Houston ColdFusion Users' Group" discussion list. To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit http://groups.google.com/group/houcfug?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
