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Thomas Nunninger	Sunday 22 May 2005 12:41:44 am Hi, my users have the possibility to register as user in different roles: normal user, affiliate, company. I added a multi select attribute to my user class where users can choose for which role they want to register. Also I added all possible attributes needed for the different roles, like company name (affiliates and companies), newslettermode (normal users), ... Now I want to ensure - for example - that a user, who wants to register as company or affiliate, fills in the company name. I had some different ideas: - set the needed attributes to "required" on the fly (not in the database) - add an workflow after validating / before saving the new user object - a new datatype "requireOnTheFly" which is somehow depending on one source attribute (e.g. checkbox set) and then checks if some target attributes are not empty What do you think? Any other idea? Thanks Thomas
Paul Forsyth	Sunday 22 May 2005 5:57:26 am You could also use javascript to check on the dependancy if you can use js. Ini files may be preferrable to specific options in the class. paul
Thomas Nunninger	Sunday 22 May 2005 8:20:47 am Wtih JavaScript I'm not sure if someone deactivated it... > Ini files may be preferrable to specific options in the class. I don't understand what you want me to tell :(
Paul Forsyth	Sunday 22 May 2005 10:14:37 am Take this ini setting i've made up, say in site.ini: [RequiredClassAttributes] RequiredAttributes[]= RequiredAttributes[]=99 And in your template you could try with: {let requiredAttributes=ezini("RequiredClassAttributes","RequiredAttributes","site.ini") myClassAttributeID=$myAttribute.contentclassattribute_id} {section show=or($requiredAttributes\|contains($myClassAttributeID),$myAttribute.contentclass_attribute.is_required)} Hey, im required. {section-else} Im not required. {/section} {/let} I feel this is a little easier to do than with the class system or with a workflow. Hope it helps! Paul
Thomas Nunninger	Sunday 22 May 2005 11:50:35 am Thank you for this good idea with the ini file. The only problem: when validating the input, eZ publish itself won't check if there is input given in the additional required fields because they are not defined as required in the class definition. One solution (but not very nice): declare all attributes as required and fill e.g. the company name with nonsens in a hidden HTML input field if it is a normal user. Any better idea. Am I right, that there is no simple way to tell eZ publish "When validation this user's data consider the attribute 'company name' as required." Thomas
Paul Forsyth	Sunday 22 May 2005 12:08:33 pm Putting a workflow for before user/register would allow you get by this but its a little messy to implement :( I've used hidden fields in the past to 'prefill' such information. You could use the example code i gave earlier to decide whether to show a proper input field or a hidden one. And set the hidden field to 'No company'. If the text is suitable its not actually too bad. If you dont this information shown to users you could always test for this string, and whether anything was chosen in your other attributes, and show or not show in other templates. Paul
Thomas Nunninger	Sunday 22 May 2005 12:26:47 pm Thank you. I think I will find a solution. Have a nice evening Thomas

eZ debug

Timing:	Jan 20 2025 04:12:14
Script start
Timing:	Jan 20 2025 04:12:14
Module start 'content'
Timing:	Jan 20 2025 04:12:14
Module end 'content'
Timing:	Jan 20 2025 04:12:14
Script end

Main resources:

Total runtime	0.0311 sec
Peak memory usage	2,048.0000 KB
Database Queries	4

Timing points:

Checkpoint	Start (sec)	Duration (sec)	Memory at start (KB)	Memory used (KB)
Script start	0.0000	0.0124	590.4297	180.8125
Module start 'content'	0.0124	0.0079	771.2422	102.0547
Module end 'content'	0.0203	0.0107	873.2969	78.7031
Script end	0.0310		952.0000

Time accumulators:

Accumulator	Duration (sec)	Duration (%)	Count	Average (sec)
Ini load
Load cache	0.0028	8.9452	12	0.0002
Check MTime	0.0012	3.9316	12	0.0001
Mysql Total
Database connection	0.0043	13.9880	1	0.0043
Mysqli_queries	0.0032	10.3631	4	0.0008
Looping result	0.0000	0.0583	2	0.0000
Template Total	0.0102	33.0	1	0.0102
Template load	0.0015	4.7053	1	0.0015
Template processing	0.0088	28.2267	1	0.0088
Override
Cache load	0.0009	2.8657	1	0.0009
General
dbfile	0.0005	1.7024	10	0.0001
String conversion	0.0000	0.0215	3	0.0000
Note: percentages do not add up to 100% because some accumulators overlap

Templates used to render the page:

Usage	Requested template	Template	Template loaded	Edit	Override
1	pagelayout.tpl	<No override>	extension/sevenx/design/simple/templates/pagelayout.tpl
Number of times templates used: 1 Number of unique templates used: 1

Time used to render debug report: 0.0003 secs