Michael, i would prefer Andrews solution, but if you don't want to create a custom renderer there is another way to archive what you want.
Take a outputText component and check in the rendered attribute method if there is a relevant message in the context. But going the custom renderer approach allows to have the message in the tooltip over the asterisk. Regards, Volker Andrew Robinson wrote: > I have done this using a custom renderer for the t:message tag. In > there I set the summary (or detail, I always get those confused on > which one is the tooltip), to an asterisk before passing it to the > base (myfaces) renderer. I clone the object before changing it though > so that the "messages" tag still shows the correct information and not > an asterisk. > > On 2/22/06, Michael Heinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>I want to show the asterisk only in error cases. >> >>It is not limited on required fields. >>I want to ease the finding of incorrect fields because I don't have >>enough room to display detailed error messages beside my fields in the >>form. >>So I have to show a detailed summary on top of my page and an asterisk >>or somewhat beside the fields. >> >>But I don't know how to achieve this :-( >> >>-----Original Message----- >>From: Sean Schofield [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Sent: Mittwoch, 22. Februar 2006 08:50 >>To: MyFaces Discussion >>Subject: Re: simple identification of incorrect fields >> >>Do you only want to show them when they fail to submit a required >>value or do you want to show them all of the time? >> >>Sean >> >>On 2/22/06, Michael Heinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>>I was afraid of having to do this. >>>Actually I don't want to override the messages because I want to show >>>them in a summary list at the top of my page. >>> >>>I just want to mark the incorrect fields in addition. >>>Is there no other possibility or workaround? >>> >>>-----Original Message----- >>>From: Sean Schofield [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>Sent: Dienstag, 21. Februar 2006 19:19 >>>To: MyFaces Discussion >>>Subject: Re: simple identification of incorrect fields >>> >>>The required message doesn't work this way. You need to override the >>>value in Message.properties if you want to use just an asterisk >>>character. >>> >>>The defaults are ... >>> >>>javax.faces.component.UIInput.REQUIRED = Validation Error >>>javax.faces.component.UIInput.REQUIRED_detail = "{0}": Value is >>>required. >>> >>>If you check the spec docs you can see the various ways to overload >>>these and replace them with your own. >>> >>>Sean >>> >>> >>> >>>On 2/21/06, Michael Heinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> >>>>Hi all, >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>I display at the top of my page a summary of all error messages. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>In addition I try to mark all incorrect fields with a '*' or another >>> >>>symbol. >>> >>>>Currently I have no idea how to implement this in an easy way. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>The following simple approach is not working: >>>> >>>><h:inputText id="searchName" value="#{ControllerBean.searchName}" >>>>required="true"/> >>>> >>>><t:message for="searchName" showDetail="false" >>>>showSummary="false">*</t:message> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>If I enclose the '*' with a verbatim tag it will be always displayed >>> >>>(even >>> >>>>without errors). >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>I'am sure this is a common requirement therefore this question. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>Michael >>>> >>>> >>> > -- Don't answer to From: address! Mail to this account are droped if not recieved via mailinglist. To contact me direct create the mail address by concatenating my forename to my senders domain.
