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Changing Required Fields in 9.2

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Applies to
  • ILLiad 9.2
Answer

You can now control how fields are required in the html of a page. Changing Required Fields

Additional information

Here are examples of what the old field looks like and what you can do to make it required if you are on 9.2 of ILLiad.

 

Change this:

<div class="form-group col-md-9">
<label for="PhotoJournalTitle">
<span class="field">
<span class="<#ERROR name='ERRORPhotoJournalTitle'>">
Title (Journal, Conference Proceedings, Anthology) 
<span class="req">(required)</span>
</span>
<br>
<span class="small-notes">
Please do not abbreviate unless your 
citation is abbreviated 
</span>
</span>
<br>
</label>
<input type="text" class="form-control" 
name="PhotoJournalTitle" 
id="PhotoJournalTitle" value=
"<#PARAM name='PhotoJournalTitle'>" required> 
</div>
  

To this:

<div class="form-group col-md-9">
<label for="PhotoJournalTitle">
<span class="field">
<span class="<#ERROR name='ERRORPhotoJournalTitle'>">
Title (Journal, Conference Proceedings, Anthology) 
<!-- <span class="req">(required)</span> -->
</span>
<br>
<span class="small-notes">
Please do not abbreviate unless your 
citation is abbreviated 
</span>
</span>
<br>
</label>
<input type="text" class="form-control" 
name="PhotoJournalTitle" 
id="PhotoJournalTitle" value=
"<#PARAM name='PhotoJournalTitle'>" > 
</div>

To add the required tag to 9.x web pages,

Change this:

<div class="form-group col-md-9">
<label for="PhotoJournalTitle">
<span class="field">
<span class="<#ERROR name='ERRORPhotoJournalTitle'>">
Title (Journal, Conference Proceedings, Anthology) 
<!-- <span class="req">(required)</span> -->
</span>
<br>
<span class="small-notes">
Please do not abbreviate unless your 
citation is abbreviated 
</span>
</span>
<br>
</label>
<input type="text" class="form-control" 
name="PhotoJournalTitle" 
id="PhotoJournalTitle" value=
"<#PARAM name='PhotoJournalTitle'>" > 
</div>
  

To this:

<div class="form-group col-md-9">
<label for="PhotoJournalTitle">
<span class="field">
<span class="<#ERROR name='ERRORPhotoJournalTitle'>">
Title (Journal, Conference Proceedings, Anthology) 
<span class="req">(required)</span>
</span>
<br>
<span class="small-notes">
Please do not abbreviate unless your 
citation is abbreviated 
</span>
</span>
<br>
</label>
<input type="text" class="form-control" 
name="PhotoJournalTitle" 
id="PhotoJournalTitle" value=
"<#PARAM name='PhotoJournalTitle'>" required> 
</div>
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