ezurl class attribute - description required?

Friday 10 November 2006 12:58:50 pm

Hi

I have a class that includes an ezurl attribute. The attribute is required. However, on creating a new object of this class, ezpublish is only allowing it to be published when a description is entered under the URL attribute.

I do not want to force people to enter a description for the URL, the link alone is enough. It seems to me that this is a bug, since a URL on its own is perfectly valid without a description to go with it.

1. Is this a bug in ez?
2. Is there any way to work around this so that only the URL itself is required.

Thanks
Matthew

http://carroll.org.uk

Friday 10 November 2006 3:58:10 pm

> Did you check if all datatyps fields of your class the checkbox "required" is unchecked?

No, like I said, I want the URL to be 'required'. This issue is that I do not want the 'Text' (description) field to be required, and it seems these requirements are inseparable.

> URL datatype has only one single field "location", (3.8.6)

It has two fields, URL and Text:

http://ez.no/doc/ez_publish/technical_manual/3_8/reference/datatypes/url

Matthew

http://carroll.org.uk

Saturday 11 November 2006 6:03:27 am

I experienced this, too, after upgrading a site to 3.8.3.
Earlier (3.4), the URL datatype did not require a Text for the hyperlink. The output template created a nice Link using the URL as text, if none was entered.

I fear, that this input validation is done somewhere in the PHP code of the ezurl datatype, so one would have to hack this code to allow empty "hyperlink texts" again :(

I suggest to file a bug report, as this at least is breaking backwards compatibilty and is annoying in most cases, too.

Marco
http://www.hyperroad-design.com