Michael coincidentally enough the last few threads have addressed the same issue. To summarize you could do one of two things:
1. Define 2 identical action-mappings in your struts-config - Call the first one "firstVisitSomething...Action" and set validate=false Now when a user clicks on the link to go to your page for the first time you go here. - The second action-mapping will have validate=true, and your form action in your jsp will post to this action-mapping 2. The other way to do it is to set validate=false in your action mapping, then call form.validate() in your Action object when the mode is "submit" or some such. -----Original Message----- From: Michael J. Godfrey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 4:16 PM To: Struts (E-mail) Subject: validation="true" Greetings, I am just starting to write a test app to learn struts. I have a validation="true" setting in struts-config.xml. When this is true, the validation happens when I OPEN a page. I have validation that is checking for existance of values, etc. For example. A login page with loginID, and password as fields. In the validate() I am checking for loginID == null and loginID.length() <1 etc etc. This is failing right out of the chute because the validation is firing when the darn thing loads. What am I doing wrong? I have read the jakarta FAQ's etc stating that low budget validation SHOULD be done in validate(). -Michael -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
