Make text field required in article submission

[aleskl]

Hello!

I would like to make the text field "Comments for the editor" required in paper submission Step 1. I added required="true" to the label of the field, which shows an asterisk by the field label, but I'm lost how to actually check this field for content. I did search the forum, found some instructions for form checking, but I don't know how to apply this to the submission template "step1.tpl"?

Cheers,
Ales

[JasonNugent]

Hi Ales,

The validation is done server side, in the Form class that handles that particular form. In your case, you'd want to edit classes/author/form/submit/AuthorSubmitStep1Form.inc.php and look in the constructor at the top of the form. You'll see a few calls to $this->addCheck() where a few FormValidator objects are passed. You'd have to add one for the field you want to make required (and probably also a locale key for the message you want to display if it is left blank).

Regards,
Jason

[aleskl]

Thank you Jason!

Your instructions were most helpful, I managed to enable the checking of Comments to the Editor in the classes/author/form/submit/AuthorSubmitStep1Form.inc.php. I added

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$this->addCheck(new FormValidator($this, 'commentsToEditor', 'required', 'author.submit.comments'));

For the error message I just used the modified text from the locale that goes with this field.

We use this field to enter the cover letter that is obligatory for the submission, so the checking of this is important. Thank you!

-Ales