Required fields in conditional field context

Kirby 3 Solved ✅
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Hi all,
i’m looking for a way to create a dependency between a toggle and other components.
If the toggle is true then other fields should be required: true.
The best solution would be: if the toggle is set to true, the whole area will slide out, is this possible?

thx for help!

2

We have conditional fields since v3.1. You can set that certain fields are only shown if a toggle value is true.

3

:wink: great timing!

thx alot

4

one thing: “when toggle” = true seems not to work with required fields.
I have to fill those fields also when toggle = false, am i right?

5

That’s one of the things I wanted to check out and haven’t come round to yet. It might well be that it doesn’t work if the fields are required.

Can’t think of a workaround at the moment.

6

Yes, required fields are always required, displayed or not. So if you hide Fields through conditions they shouldn’t be required.

7

Then we need conditional attributes:

text:
  type: text
  required:
    when:
      toggle: true
  when:
    toggle: true

Or automatically unset the required attribute when condition is false.

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text:
  type: text
  required:
    when:
      toggle: true
  when:
    toggle: true

this code works ?
I’m tryng to show a field only if the toggle is on but the required validation isnt working

10

In the end it was implemented as

text:
  type: text
  required: true
  when:
    toggle: true

If this doesn’t work in current versions, then I guess that would be a bug.

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Thanks!
that works !