[ic] Validating form HOWTO

[interchange-users@icdevgroup.org (Mike Heins)]

Quoting DB (DB@M-and-D.com):
> >> Here's a quick summary on how to do a validating form in IC 4.8.6
> >> There are 2 pages used, feedback.html and feedback2.html
> > 
> >     OK, maybe we haven't completely solved the validation issue.  When
> > testing our newly-created page, validation failure causes all form fields to
> > revert back to their previous values.  So if all the fields were blank prior
> > to validation, and the user leaves one required field blank, when the page
> > reloads all the fields are blank again.
> >     Does this hold true on your system as well?  I have some pretty
> > aggressive anti-caching settings on my IC catalog here and I am not certain
> > that isn't the cause.
> > 
> > 
> > Jeff
> 
> 
> Putting
> 
> [update values]
> 
> at the top of the form and using
> value=[value name]
> 
> for the INPUT tags takes care of this (exactly as shown in the HOWTO 
> post). If you have these and it doesn't work I'd guess it has to do with 
> your anti-caching but I'm no guru ;)
> 

This should also be found in the archives. In 4.9 you can put
&update=yes in the profile and have it copy values after it checks
them.

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