i was very glad to read in the woody-wiki that xml-based form-definitions and templates that "call" the form-widgets are separated, so that many templates can use one single form-definition. but now, i ran into a problem and i don't know if it's a bug or a feature :-)
i have a contact-form on my website, but to provide the visitor just the form-fields he need, i let him first choose what subject his contact is about. if he wanna report me any problems with the page, he gets other form-fields than when he wanna send me a link for my link-list.
so, i wrote a single contact-form-definition with all possible widgets. these include
- name
- message
- link
- description
and others
while "name" and "e-mail" are widgets that every form-template uses, some of the widgets are only used by one single form-template. for example just the the form to send me new links shows the link-field.
and now the problem: because it makes no sense, when the form to send new links can be submited without a link, i set the link-widget required="true". BUT, if any other template don't display the link-field at all, it can never be submited because the link-field is not true (what a wonder when it's not in the form at all :-)).
is this a bug or a feature? do i really need to write a form-definition for every "type" of my contact-form?
for the moment it's no problem to set all required-attributes of the widgets to "false", but it's not a smart solution at all...
thanks for your input and greetings stefan
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