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New Form Validation Widget for Screen Actions
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Creation of a widget to be used on the screen's actions that allow a simple and much faster validation of a form.


Why?

The time that nowadays we take to perform all fields validation in a form is high. Additionally, in a typical "Save" action, it gets very confused when we mix the "twenty" validations of dates, mandatory texts and business logic, with the save action indeed. It is not visually pleasing to read the action.


How?

Create a widget that visually looks like the form of properties of a entity. In that form, the user can add the fields that need validation, including also the expression that it is used to validate and the error message to show for each field. The widget can return a boolean called "Success" so that the user can continue to work in the "Save" action.

23 Jan 2020
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+1

23 Jan 2020
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Like the idea +1

28 Jan 2020
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+1

29 Jan 2020
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I love it, definitely an improvement +1

31 Jan 2020
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I fully aggree, validations should be a lot more declaretive instead of us writing code to do the majority of validations. Especially for the ReactiveWeb this would be a great improvement.

Most javascript frameworks, including ReactJs have several good components to make form validation really easy by just declearing per attribute all the constrains. For example for reactjs you have Yup validation schema which is used by Formik UI Forms.


01 Feb 2020
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Hi Tiago,

That's a good idea. We'll add it to our radar to continue monitoring it's evolution and eventually implement it in the future.

Thanks,
Tiago Simões

04 Mar 2020
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Thank you Tiago!

Regards

07 Apr 2020
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+1

23 Apr 2020
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+1. Validations + Feedback Message should be able to be called independently from form.
MainFlow -> calls validation flow ( sets valid and validation message ) -> returns to main flow. Validation messages still show

04 Dec 2020
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This component is still not what you want but is a good middle point.
https://www.outsystems.com/forge/component-overview/10086/validationhelper

Maybe evolve from that?

12 Feb 2021
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For this exact problem I ended up building this component:

https://www.outsystems.com/forge/component-overview/18413/fluent-validation-o11

It allows the declaration of a schema and rules to validate each of the fields. Although it works well, it requires the use of some undocumented features, which might break in the future, so a native OutSystems solution would be preferable.

24 Oct 2024
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