Make a selection mandatory for atleast one checkbox to be selected on a form with alert if nothing selected

[Terry Carter Jr]

Hello everyone!

I need some assistance today.  I have a custom application (IBM Resilient Integration) that I built out for my security response team and they would like to have a modification done to the checkboxes.  Yes, I have already approached them to use select boxes for the selections since it would be easier but they want the users to have to opportunity to select one or more checkbox while making a selection mandatory with an alert if nothing is selected.  

Below are the checkboxes that I'm using:

Any guidance or help is greatly appreciated!

Thanks,

Terry 

[asifnoor]

If its 1 checkbox field, why can't you make this field mandatory for user to select atleast one

g_form.setMandatory("your_field_name",true);

if there are different fields, then you can write a client script on submit and check like below

if(g_form.getValue("field1")=='' || g_form.getValue("field2")=='' || g_form.getValue("field3")=='' || g_form.getValue("field4")=='') {

g_form.addErrorMessage("please select atleast 1 value");

}

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[Terry Carter Jr]

Asifnoor,

I just went to grab some lunch but I will try this solution once I get back to my desk.

Thanks,

Terry Carter

[Terry Carter Jr]

Asifnoor,

I tried your code above but I guess I'm missing something since I'm not that fluent in java scripting.

Getting the error messages below for line #3:

Expected an identifier and instead saw '||'.
3	Expected an assignment or function call and instead saw an expression.
3	Missing semicolon.
3	Expected an assignment or function call and instead saw an expression.
3	Missing semicolon.
3	Expected an identifier and instead saw ')'.
3	Expected an operator and instead saw '||'.
3	Expected an assignment or function call and instead saw an expression.
3	Missing semicolon.
3	Expected an assignment or function call and instead saw an expression.
3	Missing semicolon.
3	Expected an identifier and instead saw ')'.
3	Expected an assignment or function call and instead saw an expression.
3	Missing semicolon.

[asifnoor]

Hi,

Try like below.

if(g_form.getValue("customer") == "" || g_form.getValue("non_customer") == "" || g_form.getValue("team_member") == "" || g_form.getValue("vendor") == "" || g_form.getValue("other") == "" ) {

g_form.addErrorMessage("Please select atleast 1 checkbox");

}

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[Terry Carter Jr]

Okay I will try now. Let you know a response as soon as possible. Thanks, Terry