SemanticForms + HeaderTabs, mandatory fields

[Patrick Nagel]

Hi,

after seeing Davide's way of using the HeaderTabs extension together with the
SemanticForms extension [1], I thought I'd also give it a try on a Wiki I'm
working on.

I found a usability problem:

The error message that SemanticForms shows when a mandatory form field hasn't
been filled ("There were errors with your form input; see below") will confuse
the user if the error is in another tab. It would be great if the two
extensions could work together as follows:
* switch to the tab which contains the error(s) if they are all in one tab
* highlight the tabs that contain errors if they are spread over multiple tabs
* tell the user to check all highlighted tabs for errors

I don't know if this is even possible, but it would be great for the usability
of a large form :)

If it's not possible, maybe a "cheaper" version could be considered:
If a form uses the HeaderTabs extension (has the <headertabs/> tag in it), show
a different error message, such as "There were errors with your form input; see
below (the errors might be in other tabs than the one you currently see)"

Patrick.

[1]:
http://groups.google.com/group/semantic-forms/browse_thread/thread/7fd6faf04388fb5c?hl=en

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[Davide Piga]

Thanks Patrick for the comment.
This actually confirms that my method is just a workaround. Best would
be to develop an apposite feature for multi level categorization in
forms, if it's feasible and other users find it useful.

I definitely do!

Davide

On Apr 13, 2009, at 2:04 AM, Patrick Nagel <ma...@patrick-nagel.net>
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