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Hello,

I am switching my magazine subscription form from CF4 to CF6, so I am new to CF6. The context for my question is there are three types of subscriptions; Online, Print, and Both.

If subscriber selects Online, it will disable address fields (street address, apartment, city, state/province, zip, country) and subscriber enters required fields which are name and email.

If subscriber selects Print or Both, subscriber needs to enter required fields which are name, email, street address, city, state/province, zip, and country. Apartment is optional for Print or Both subscription.

This is what I have done.
1. I enable server validations
2. I was able to set the events in the SubscriptionType field. Please see attached.


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3. For street address, city, state/province, zip, and country, I set them to "Required" with Regular expression to allow some characters.

When I tested the form by selecting Online, entered information and clicked submit, I got the error message on the top of the form. I am assuming those are from "Required" that I had on Validation tab on those fields and those error message are from server side validation.
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My question is how can I skip server side validation for address fields if subscriber select Online?
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Thank you,
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N

Don't use the server validations. Use a series of manual validations - one for all the fields that are common to all options, then an event switcher based on the subscription, with validations inside for just the relevant fields.

healyhatman,
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Thank you for your suggestions.
I unchecked "Enable server validation" on Settings section.
I have Event Switcher on Submit > Actions. I plan to have server side validations inside each event as you suggested.
Then I realized I do not know a lot of things.
1. I coped the server side custom code from CF4 and put into Server side validation for Online box, but nothing happen. I mean I disabled JavaScript to test server side validation to make sure it does not allow empty fields and check the regular expression, but I did not see the error message. Basically, I do not know how to do it in CF6. Please advise.
2. What is the next action after Event switcher. How can I get to save to database and send email notification after pass the validation or if I fail the validation, how to reload the form?
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Thank you for your help.
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N

I think I got it. I want to double check if I am on the right track based on your suggestions above.
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I have Validate Data in Online event for now.

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This is what I have in the Validate Data.
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Am I on the right track?
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Thanks,
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N

You've put a stopper in the success branch. That means if the form PASSES the validation, stop all processing.

healyhatman,
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I have debugger and stopper just for testing because I want to see the form data after submitting.
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I am running to another issue. Below is the Fields setup in the Validate Data action.
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PrefixName/regex[/[A-Za-z\'\.\-\s]/]:Prefix contains invalid character
FirstName/required:First name is required
FirstName/regex[/[A-Za-z\'\.\-\s]/]:First name contains invalid character
LastName/required:Last name is required
LastName/regex[/[A-Za-z\'\.\-\s]/]:Last name contains invalid character
Organization/regex[/[a-zA-Z0-9\s\'\.\,\-\"\(\)]/]:Organization contains invalid character
Email/required:Email is required
Email/email:Please enter a valid email address
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Since prefix and organization is optional, so I only have the regex for Prefix and Organization. When I submit the form but skip to enter Prefix and Organization, I am still stuck at the server side validation. What is the rule to allow empty value on the server side validation? I have been looking through the forum but no luck.
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Please advise.
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Thank you,
N

Got it 😀
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Thanks a bunch.