Hi List, now that I have spent several hours trying to figure it out on my own, I'm giving this list a try.
What I want to do is rather basic: I want to have a mandatory checkbox in my view. So if the user wants to continue working with the application he must first tick the box. So what I came up with was to use the required="true" on the h:selectBooleanCheckbox . Unfortunately this does not work. As I tried to find out what goes wrong I gave h:inputText a try, and it worked as expected, i.e. the form was considered invalid as long as the textbox was empty. So something is fishy about the checkbox... OK, so I remember back from the struts days, that checkboxes are tricky because they do not submit any value at all (not even an empty one) when unchecked. Searching some more, I found a rather interesting discussion in http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MYFACES-1467. Although the main problem is about validators not running, the issue that required="true" gets ignored in case the component does not create a http parameter at all, is discussed at well. To the end of that issue it first seemed like a patch was supplied, but then again several problems popped up, and someone suspects that it's a spec issue.... frankly - i`m at a loss here. :-) So, what is the right approach for this behaviour? Create a "MandatoryCheckboxValidator" and attach it to the checkboxes? Maybe someone else had the problem already and can give me a hint how to proceed? Thanks and bye, Michael -- Michael Heß Senior Consultant ORDIX AG Westernmauer 12-16 33098 Paderborn http://www.ordix.de Tel.: 05251 / 10 63 0 Fax : 05251 / 10 63 99 Mob : 0163 /673 49 43 ORDIX AG - Aktiengesellschaft für Softwareentwicklung, Schulung, Beratung und Systemintegration Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrates: Prof. Dr. Hermann Johannes Vorstand: Wolfgang Kögler (Vorsitzender), Benedikt Georgi, Christoph Lafeld, Axel Röber Firmensitz: Westernmauer 12 - 16, 33098 Paderborn, Tel: 05251 / 1063-0, Fax: 0180 / 1 67 34 90 Amtsgericht Paderborn, HRB 2941, Ust-IdNr.DE 126333767, Steuernummer: 339/5866/0142
