Hi Sashi, Don't know if you've received any replies to this, but I initially handled it the same as you, but ran into problems when I was going back to the servlet for drop-down actions etc. I only wanted validation errors to appear when the user hit the save button, so I ended up just checking for the save in the validation method as such:
//only validate form when a save has been pressed try {if (request.getParameter("saveBtn.x").equals(null)) return null;} catch (NullPointerException ex) {return null;} I'm also interested in feed-back on my approach. -----Original Message----- From: Sashi Ravipati [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2003 1:19 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: How to ignore validation when form loads (first time) Hi We have JSP pages which need user input. How can I display the form initially with out validation and then when user enters data and submits the page, the validation has to be done. I tried to accomplish it by giving two <action> in Struts-Config.xml. as shown below eg: <action path="/AddRate" type="xxxx.AddRateAction" name="addRateForm" input="AddRate.jsp" scope="request" validate="false" > <forward name="success" path="AddRate.jsp"/> </action> <action path="/Rate" type="xxxx.AddRateAction" name="addRateForm" input="AddRate.jsp" scope="request" validate="true" > <forward name="success" path="AddRate.do?target=create"/> </action> Not sure if this the way to do. Can somebody tell me if there is a better way to accomplish this. Thanks --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]