Conditional Validation

First let me say that the help files drive me nuts, no matter what I do I cannot get Flash to allow them to display in any of my browsers. In any event I have two drop down list. The first is not a required field, however, if someone selects something in that field I want to require that the second one be choosen. I figured that is what a Conditional Validation does, however when I chose that option all it reall does is allow me to select the first list and the second, but says nothing about what it does and since the help files don't work I cannot figure it out. Anyone know if this is what I supposed to do? If not, any clue how I can acheive this? Thanks.

Vern

We have the help documentation online as well, there is a link to the online help for each of the products on the support landing page, for validation toolkit go here:
validation-toolkit/


and click the online help link.

here is a sample file i created using conditional validation that should help.

This doesn't work for me and the link you provided doesn't show me how to do conditional validation. The sample file of course works as is but I can't seem to make it work for me. What is different, and I'm not sure if this matters, is that my second field is not a text field, but rather another select. Does that make a difference?

send a link to your page so I can see what you have done.

user_times_Insert_temp.php

The one I am working on is "Number of Appointments Set" and "Appointment Type" if the Number of Appointments Set is something other than 0 I want to force the user to select an Appointment Type.

set the 0 option to have a blank value:
<select name="APPTS" id="APPTS">
<option value="" selected="selected">0</option>
<option value="1">1</option>
</select>

Sorry for the delay in responding. The problem with this code is it forces the user to slect Appointment Type no matter what. What I am looking for is if the user selects 0 "Number of Appointment Sets" then they must select "Appointment Type" other than the first option (N/A). Please note that I moved this to a new file.

user_times_Insert_temp.php

the initial value for the APPTS list need to be blank, you have it set to 0
change:
<select name="APPTS" id="APPTS">
<option value="0" selected="selected">0</option>
<option value="1">1</option>
</select>


to:
<select name="APPTS" id="APPTS">
<option value="" selected="selected">0</option>
<option value="1">1</option>
</select>

Yes I know that, I did make the change, however I am still getting a message that tells me I have an error unless I actually do select an appointment type. I want to allow them to be able to select 0 APPTs, as it is now you cannot.

I have created a support ticket so we can look into this issue further.

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