Blank Radio Buttons (none selected by...

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We have several yes/no radio button groups that should not have a selection made until the user selects an answer. Otherwise, we may get responses the form user may have never intended to submit. Currently, Web Form Builder is requiring one of the options (Yes or No) to be ticked by default.

Normally, when developing forms with yes/no radio button groups, we leave both "yes" and "no" blank by default.

I imagine we could do this manually in the HTML the software outputs, but making future form updates would be complicated by having to do this manually each time we re-output the form.

Is this an option with the current build of Web Form Builder? If not, can you add it to a feature request list for inclusion in a future version? :-)

Thanks!

- Jeremy
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Thanks for the suggestion. We have actually had many of our users request this feature and I am pretty sure it will be something included in a future update. If you are exporting the form to your own server, you can easily modify the markup to adjust that. Simply locate checked type= and change that to just type= for that radio button group.
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Thanks for the quick reply!

Yeah, we'll probably do that manually for now. But, we'd LOVE to see it in a future update. Thanks for following up on this.

Overall, VERY pleased with the software. Great job!

- Jeremy
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Dern it Scott... No wonder you make typo's, too quick on the keyboard (again). :P
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Hey Phil! I saw your previous reply too. ;-) Thanks.
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Phil wrote:
Dern it Scott... No wonder you make typo's, too quick on the keyboard (again). :P

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Oops... new question on this subject. I deleted "checked" for all the radio button groups. That effectively removes all the default answers. That was good. :-)

Unfortunately, doing so seems to introduce another undesired effect. Now, all radio buttons are considered "required" (and display an error message if not completed) even though I have not marked them as being "required".

Is there any way to tell the radio button groups not to be "required"?

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You can see this effect by going here:
http://ihelpinc.net/Employment/Applicat … -test.html

Just hit "submit" with no fields completed. All the error messages will appear, including the unwanted messages for the radio button groups.
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Just checking in to see if anyone had any ideas to my Wednesday question. I'm guessing, from the silence, that there's no solution for this? :-)

I just basically need to turn off the error checking for certain radio button groups. Is that possible?

Thanks!

- Jeremy
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Hi Jeremy,

I had a similar problem with another field that I no longer wanted to be required. First I changed the HTML coding in my form for that item and removed required. See example:

<input id="item5_text_1" maxlength="30" name="text5" required data-hint=""
autocomplete="off" placeholder="" type="text" />

This change alone did not solve the problem :( , so I went to the validation_data.js file and located the item in question, editing out the item marked "required":true See example:

"item5_text_1":{"maxlength":"30","required":true}

This resolved the problem, and didn't seem to create any other issues. :) Your mileage may vary, but it might be worth a try.

Richard
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RK wrote:

This change alone did not solve the problem :( , so I went to the validation_data.js file and located the item in question, editing out the item marked "required":true See example:

"item5_text_1":{"maxlength":"30","required":true}

Richard


*** Important note re: above post (since it wouldn't let me edit :()
Don't use HTML Editor to change the .js file as it may yield uncertain results. If you are using S-drive you can use their edit function, otherwise use a plain text editor.
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