In ASP.NET MVC, is it possible to show a different message in the ValidationSummary compared to what is shown in the ValidationMessage?
IE - if i have a FirstName textbox, on validation the message next to the text box will say 'You need to fill this out', but in the validation summary it will say 'Please provide a first name'.
I'm not sure if I completely understand what you are trying to accomplish, but you can specify a generic error message in the validation summary. In your view you can use:
#Html.ValidationSummary(true, "Please correct the errors below")
The boolean parameter indicates whether you want to exclude property errors. The string is the message you want displayed. Using this overload the way I have above, the model-level error message Please correct the errors below would be shown in place of the #Html.ValidationSummary() method, and the property errors would be shown where you place your #Html.ValidationMessageFor() methods.
See the MSDN documentation for a complete list of overloads.
Yes. It should be quite obvious from looking at the intellisense.
you would say:
#Html.ValidationSummary(true)
and it will contain the error messages that are located on the model or the default messages
And you can say:
#Html.ValidationMessageFor(m => m.Property, "This is a custom message")
And that overrides the message on the individual message.
Also, keep in mind that #Html.ValidationSummary(true, 'Header Message') will show your custom summary message along with the same messages that you provided in your model data annotations.
i.e. in your model class:
[Required(Message="First name is required")]
public string FirstName { get; set; }
Your validation summary would look some like this:
Header Message
First name is required
Alternatively, you can build up a custom collection of messages by using ModelState.AddModelError("Key", "Message") in your controller, then referencing that key in your view using ViewData.
After looking at the Metadata available, I don't think what I want to do is possible. What I'm going to do instead is type in the input specific value for validation, and hide the class field-validation-valid.
Providing different Errormesages beside the input fields and in the Validation Summary is not possible with #Html.ValidationSummary. Such a feature could make sense because a part of the errormessage's information can come from it's position in the page (e.g. beside a firstname input field the message could be 'Input required' and in the validation summary you need 'Input required for firstname'). Unfortunately a poor implementation for ValidationSummary in MVC, .net 2.0 provided the feature to have different messages in it's validators and in the validationsummary .
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I have created a form along with other fileds having validation and there is one field where it doesn't have the validationMessageFor but in validationSummary I am able to see the error for that field and model doesn't have the required property.
Validation summary Is supposed to display all the error messages on the model irrespective of validationMessageFor usage in UI.
The field might contain any other validations associated with it. Please post your model here.
I got many [Required] fields in my model.
And, in traditional MVC way, I will add #Html.ValidationMessageFor() for each required textbox.
Then, if user doesn't type anything for 5 textboxes, 5 message will show up in the UI.
My question is: can I show just one message saying Please fill mandatory fields in the UI instead of showing the message everywhere like Name is required, Address is required...?
and I need this to be validate on Client Side, without post form back to server
You might want to look at ValidationSummary - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.web.mvc.html.validationextensions.validationsummary(v=vs.108).aspx - Returns an unordered list (ul element) of validation messages that are in the ModelStateDictionary object. You can override the message like so:
#Html.ValidationSummary(true, "Invalid form")
Source https://stackoverflow.com/a/4924494/201648
You can use #Html.ValidationSummary:
#Html.ValidationSummary(true, "Please fill mandatory fields")
If you also want to include a list of property specific errors use:
#Html.ValidationSummary(false, "Please fill mandatory fields")
I currently have a summary message at the top of my form, inviting my user to login. If the form does not validate on submit, I wish for this to then be replaced with the relevant error.
The only way I can think of is by hiding the initial text (perhaps in a #Html.Label) and then showing a #Html.ValidationSummary. However, I feel there is most likely a far more efficient way of doing this.
Can anybody help?
I would have an #Html.Label helper, and use the ViewBag object to pass data to it. That way in your controller when you test for ModelState.IsValid, if that is false you can set the ViewBag property so that it passes to the label helper.
Make sense? That's how I'd do it.
turn on the validation summary
#Html.ValidationSummary(true)
in your post ActionResult check the ModelState
[HttpPost]
public ActionResult Foo( Bar _bar){
if(ModelState.IsValid){
//noral course of action
return RedirectToAction("Foo"); //Redirect to the GET method
}
ModelState.AddModelError("", "|Your Message Here");
return View(_bar);
}
No, there is no problem with the approach.
I generally use single div with jquery for the stuff like form validation etc.
I create a single div on page where any kind of message can be displayed for user guideance.
ex:
if I've display some kind of information to user, it will be displayed as following:
div id='divMessage'</div>
$('#divMessage').html('Please fill the following form.').removeClass().addClass('msg');
While in case of some error same div will be used to display the error message:
$('#divMessage').html('some error occurred.').removeClass().addClass('errmsg');
I hope till will be of any use.
I have a business requirement where in i need to display SSN Field into three separate text boxes and if any one of the textbox is blank and user clicks save, I need to display a common error message on top of the SSN Field saying- "SSN is required field". I have added required field attribute on the view model on all these fields so i am getting three edit messages saying SSN is required. how to present only one edit in this case ?
I am using ASP.NET MVC 2
My view model is like this
[Required]
SSN_FirstThreeDigits
[Required]
SSN_SecondTwoDigits
[Required]
SSN_ThirdFourDigits
Any suggestions
Thanks
Subu
SSNValidator.com now has an API for validating social security numbers. Data elements include whether or not the number was issued, approximate date of issuance, state of issuance and if it was used in a death claim. Go to the site and click the API/Batch Processing links for details.
The Mvc.ValidationTookit Alpha Release: Conditional Validation with MVC 3 can do this.
You may need a custom model binder. Please have a look at this article and see how he validates date of birth
I would like to replace validation message for all model properties that have [Required] attribute from the default "The XY field is required." to "*". I want to do that site wide in one place without having to add a custom message to Required attributes or passing additional parameter to ValidationMessageFor() Html helper.
Any ideas?
See the answer to my question here :
Localizing Error Messages In ASP.NET MVC 2 (Default Validation Attributes)