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KeithJKeithJ 

inputText required="true" not working

Hi there.My inputText field in my vf page is renderd like so:

 

 

 

but in my vf code I have 

<apex:pageBlockSectionItem >

<apex:outputLabel value="Title" for="titleField" />

<apex:inputText value="{!title}" required="true" id="titleField" style="width: 200px;" />

</apex:pageBlockSectionitem>

 
 Where you can see that the inputText is required=true but it's not showing up on my vf page.
This field binds to a String property in my custom controller that's called title
 
Thanks for the help & regards 
 


Best Answer chosen by Admin (Salesforce Developers) 
devNut!devNut!
 I believe it should look something like this.  The"value" is bound to a string array which will contain the selected values. 
 
VF page
<apex:page controller="samplecon">
        <apex:form >
                <apex:selectList value="{!countries}" multiselect="false">
                        <apex:selectOptions value="{!items}"/>
                </apex:selectList><p/>
                <apex:commandButton value="Test" action="{!test}" rerender="out" status="status"/>
        </apex:form>
</apex:page>
 
 
 
Your controller:
public class samplecon {
        String[] countries = new String[]{};
        public PageReference test() {
                return null;
        }
        public List<SelectOption> getItems() {
                List<SelectOption> options = new List<SelectOption>();
                options.add(new SelectOption('US','US'));
                options.add(new SelectOption('CANADA','Canada'));
                options.add(new SelectOption('MEXICO','Mexico'));
                return options;
        }
        public String[] getCountries() {
             return countries;
        }
        public void setCountries(String[] countries) {
                this.countries = countries;
        }
  
  }
 
 


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devNut!devNut!
 There are a couple of threads related to your issue: 
 
link 1
 
Link 2 


KeithJKeithJ
Thanks devNut!
One other thing instead of starting a new thread:
if you have a selectList with attribute multiselect="true"
do you know how you can capture multiple selected values?
 
In my controller, I tried binding my selectList to a List and a string, but these
can't seem to be able to handle multiple selected values.
Any ideas?
Thanks again


devNut!devNut!
 I believe it should look something like this.  The"value" is bound to a string array which will contain the selected values. 
 
VF page
<apex:page controller="samplecon">
        <apex:form >
                <apex:selectList value="{!countries}" multiselect="false">
                        <apex:selectOptions value="{!items}"/>
                </apex:selectList><p/>
                <apex:commandButton value="Test" action="{!test}" rerender="out" status="status"/>
        </apex:form>
</apex:page>
 
 
 
Your controller:
public class samplecon {
        String[] countries = new String[]{};
        public PageReference test() {
                return null;
        }
        public List<SelectOption> getItems() {
                List<SelectOption> options = new List<SelectOption>();
                options.add(new SelectOption('US','US'));
                options.add(new SelectOption('CANADA','Canada'));
                options.add(new SelectOption('MEXICO','Mexico'));
                return options;
        }
        public String[] getCountries() {
             return countries;
        }
        public void setCountries(String[] countries) {
                this.countries = countries;
        }
  
  }
 
 
This was selected as the best answer
KeithJKeithJ
I see. That's pretty strange because I would've imagined a List would do it.
Wouldn't work out for me. Thanks again for your help and your time! 


KeithJKeithJ
That works great for capturing the selected values of a multiselectpicklist.
But how would one actually set them in the sobject field explicitly?
For example, if you imagine that there was an SObject field called Country which was a 
multiselectpicklist, how can you set the values explicitly after you have captured the
values for the apex selectlist?
 
If you say Country__c = countries;
this isn't going to work.
Any ideas?
Thank you very much


devNut!devNut!
Ultimately a multi-select picklist in salesforce saves the selected values in a semi-colon delimited string.
 
 
You can build a semi-colon delimited string of the values in the countries array.
 
Then you would save this semi-colon delimited string to the salesforce database, using Country__c = countriesSemiColonString; 
  


KeithJKeithJ
Brilliant!
Thank you very much. :)
 
Where did you find this information btw?