Implemented More detailed Error Message for Value Match Requirements (Item Fields & Review Fields)

This would be really useful to have. People generally don't understand undefined errors and give up on it.

Maybe its an idea to also highlight the field in red and add a red information text above the field.

 

My showcase has lots of custom fields with regex and I just had a member who could simply not create a new item as he did no know what was wrong. He ended up taking pictures of his screen with a camera to show me what he was entering.

This is must, even if some sort of basic indicator of which field is incorrect would be really helpful.

 

I made a change to the Showcase code to display the description of the custom field when the regex fails

Here is an example with a custom field that only accepts numeric values.



When the regex fails, the description will be shown in the error message


To make this change, open CustomField.php located in the NFLJ/Showcase/Model folder

Go to the verifyCustomFieldValue() method and comment out

Code:

//   $error = new XenForo_Phrase('please_enter_value_that_matches_required_format');

and replace it with

Code:

$error =  new XenForo_Phrase("sc_custom_field_" .  $field['field_id']."_desc");

 

THis might be of interest as the functionality is similar:
https://xenforo.com/community/resources/wmtech-custom-field-error-enhancer.4718/

 

Hi,

While creating or editing an item, users should fill field as we set criteria in "Value Match Requirements".
Now, imagine there are more than 30 fields to fill for an item, and all of them have their own criteria.
If a user write something else in some fields, he/she just will see this error when trying to submit the item:

But, which field has error? user should start checking all fields to see which one has problem.
I have Two suggestions for this:

• below the error, it writes list of the fields that should be edited. OR
• the field with error become red. or show a red error below it.

For first suggestion, I can refer to Advanced Application Forms add-on that worked perfect. We can write even what error to show when a user write wrong content in a field (for each field). See:

And for second suggestion I refer to xenforo itself:


Regards

 

http://xenaddons.com/threads/custom-error-messages-for-regex-ed-fields.1426/#post-7150

 

Like Always, Awesome!
Thanks Bob

 

The formatting is off when multiple errors are displayed



For regex failures, I suggest that the "Required Format:regex" not be shown as most users wont know what a regex is.
Site owners should provide the type of input the user should be entering in the custom field description.

 

Let me clarify what I meant.
WHP, 60 ft ET and 1/4 Mile MPH are all regex fields and I have updated the description to reflect the expected format to show the user a relevant error message.
What is not intuitive for the user in the error message is the "Required Format:regex" as most users wont know what a regex is.



When a regex fails, I would not want the "Required Format:regex" be shown. Here is what I would like to see.

 

What about the spacing? Is that as designed?
The item name error (Please enter a valid item name) should be the first error to be displayed.