Required Booking Fields in Conditional Tags

[Anonymous]

Hi Franky,

I use a standard booking form which is automatically adjusted by an event field that is filled or not while creating the event:
[eme_if tag='#ESC_FIELD{XX}' is_empty=0]#_FIELD{YY}[/eme_if]
with FIELD{XX} beeing the event field and FIELD{YY} a customized field to ask for extra information.

Now my challenge:
If the FIELD{YY} appears in the form it shall be mandatory to fill it. When I use #REQ_FIELD{YY} in the conditional tag above it unfortunately is ALWAYS required (even if the field is not visible in the form, so the user is not able to submit the form at all).

I found out that it works when I put the FIELD{YY} not directly in my booking form but in another template (TEMPLATE{ZZ}) and include it like this:
[eme_if tag='#ESC_FIELD{XX}' is_empty=0]#_INCLUDE_TEMPLATE{ZZ}[/eme_if]
But I guess you have another, more elegant solution?

Btw: When I define FIELD{YY} as a required field by default, not even this workaround helps.

Thanks in advance
Timo

[Anonymous]

Sorry I was too fast.
My solution does not work at all.

[Franky]

There’s an EME option made just for your use-case 🙂 See the option “Check required fields upon submit?” in the generic EME options, tab RSVP (you’ll want it to say ‘no’).

[Anonymous]

Awesome!
Thank you!

[Franky]

I’m still in doubt whether or not I should just deactivate the check upon submit by default and rely on the antispam-measures taken (honeypot field, optional captcha, wordpress nonce) to be sufficient.

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