[Solved] Validator Issues

[Felipe Saldana]

I am running into various validator - validation issues on my pages and was wondering if anybody has ever ran across this problem.

Example: I have a custom UserControl placed in a MultiView that is placed in a RadAjaxPanel.  The UserControl is made up of first name, last name, address, city state fields with most fields having a RequiredFieldValidator.  Without filling out the control I click the "save customer" button.  The RequiredFieldValidator is ignored and the page post back.

Example: I have the following code.  I want the RadComboBox the post back and it does...but the ClientValidationFunction is firing while I have the CausesValidation=false

<telerik:RadComboBox ID="ddl" runat="server" AutoPostBack="true" OnSelectedIndexChanged="ddl_SelectedIndexChanged" TabIndex="1" Width="350px" CausesValidation=false></telerik:RadComboBox>
<asp:CustomValidator ID="valReqSelected" runat="server" ClientValidationFunction="checkSelection" Text="" Display="Static" ErrorMessage="Please select." EnableClientScript="true" ValidateEmptyText="true" ControlToValidate="ddl"  ValidationGroup="Save"></asp:CustomValidator>

Any help would be appreciated

[Felipe Saldana]

Part of the problem was in the onClientClick event I was using a "return function_name();" instead of "function_name();"

I still had a problem with the CustomValidators though.  

I created a javascript function to manually validate all the controls.

[Pavlina]

Hi Felipe,

I suggest that you perform the validation server-side, then handle the ServerValidate event of the CustomValidator in code-behind.
Additionally you can use server validation by setting the EnableClientScripts property of the validators to false.

More information about RadAjax limitation for ASP Standard Validators is available in the following help topic.

I hope this helps.

Greetings,
Pavlina
the Telerik team

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