Opened 16 years ago
Last modified 15 years ago
#8403 new enhancement
Encourage users to select meaningful values for 'required' fields
| Reported by: | ebray | Owned by: | |
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| Priority: | normal | Milestone: | next-major-releases |
| Component: | ticket system | Version: | none |
| Severity: | normal | Keywords: | mandatory field |
| Cc: | Branch: | ||
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Description
When an enum field, in particular, is marked as 'required', the blank option is removed from the select element, and the first option is selected by default, if no other default value is set.
The problem with this is that it often leads to users submitting tickets with those fields left in their default values. It doesn't force them to select a meaningful value.
A decent workaround is to have a catchall (like 'general' for the Component field) as the default value for the field. But I've had use cases where we want to make sure the user has paid some attention to the field. The desired behavior here would be to have something like 'Select a Component…' as the first option. If this option is selected when the form is submitted, a warning would be displayed, and the ticket would not be saved.
Maybe we need a mandatory flag for the fields. If the value given is empty (and that could be the default), the field wouldn't validate.
It's just generalizing what we currently do for the summary, I think.