On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 01:12:18PM -0500, Stephan Richter wrote: > On Wednesday 20 February 2008, Hermann Himmelbauer wrote: > > Yes, I also use z3c.form, but my problem is that the field has the > > "required" flag set to "True", which is appropriate for an add/edit form > > but may not be appropriate for a search form. > > > > If I change the "required" flag on the field level, e.g. in the update() > > method, the change is permanent in the interface, which is not appropriate. > > And changing it on the widget level seems to be very complicated, at least, > > I found no way to do it. > > Mhh, I think that form fields should support this. Let me look at the code > briefly. > > So yes, you need to change it on the widget level; here is what you have to > do > in your form: > > class MyForm(Form): > > def updateWidgets(self): > super(MyForm, self).updateWidgets() > self.widgets['prefix.myfield'].required = False > > Is that too difficult still?
Does that actually work? I vaguely seem to remember that I tried this approach once (making the widget not required when the field was required), but some code from the field itself raised validation errors. Of course that could've been a bug in Zope 3.2, fixed since. Marius Gedminas -- Go not unto the Usenet for advice, for you will be told both yea and nay (and quite a few things that just have nothing at all to do with the question).
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