Hi Clark, The following is similar validation in struts 1.1 final release working fine, for the case first field is necessary when second field is null, otherwise one of the two shall be available. Do not bother about additional condition of page attribute of page. It is just show how to use two fields in required if. The error your code is in in var-name change from field-test[0] to fieldTest[0] in final release of struts 1.1 can find this in struts validation doc. Hope this will help -Udaya
<formset> <form name="forgotForm"> <field property="username" depends="requiredif"> <arg0 key="errors.usernameorpassword"/> <var> <var-name>field[0]</var-name> <var-value>currentPage</var-value> </var> <var> <var-name>fieldTest[0]</var-name> <var-value>EQUAL</var-value> </var> <var> <var-name>fieldValue[0]</var-name> <var-value>1</var-value> </var> <var> <var-name>field[1]</var-name> <var-value>domain</var-value> </var> <var> <var-name>fieldTest[1]</var-name> <var-value>NULL</var-value> </var> <var> <var-name>fieldJoin</var-name> <var-value>AND</var-value> </var> </field> <field property="domain" depends="mask" > <arg0 key="form.domainname"/> <msg name="mask" key="errors.domain.invalid"/> <var> <var-name>mask</var-name> <var-value>^[a-zA-Z0-9]+([-.]*[a-zA-Z0-9])*$</var-value> </var> </field> </form> </formset> -----Original Message----- From: Clark Kent [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 12, 2003 12:01 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: requiredif validation challenge I use Struts 1.1 and tried to add the patch for the requiredif validator in validator-rules.xml. Following is the code that I added in the validation.xml for the form. The form has 2 fields and only one of them can be filled inorder to perform a search. <field property="acctID" depends="requiredif, mask"> <arg0 key="csc.prompt.acctid"/> <msg name="requiredif" key="errors.requiredif"/> <var> <var-name>field[0]</var-name> <var-value>userID</var-value> </var> <var> <var-name>field-test[0]</var-name> <var-value>NULL</var-value> </var> </field> <field property="userID" depends="requiredif, mask"> <arg0 key="csc.prompt.userid"/> <msg name="requiredif" key="errors.requiredif"/> <var> <var-name>field[0]</var-name> <var-value>acctID</var-value> </var> <var> <var-name>field-test[0]</var-name> <var-value>NULL</var-value> </var> </field> It seems like inspite of the above, it still doesnt seem to validate requiredif validator and proceeds with the submit anyway. Can someone guide me? Clark --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? New Yahoo! Photos - easier uploading and sharing --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]