Change "required" message to include name of missing field

I am trying to edit the Formit lexicon so that "This field is required" will instead read "Name is required" (for instance). This is so that I can bunch the errors together at the top of the page instead of putting them by each field in the form. Taking a clue from another lexicon entry, I tried "[[+field]] is required" but that came out with blank space where the field name should have been. Is there any way to do this? Thanks.

If there’s not a way to do that, it’d make a great feature request...

Did you try [[+fieldName]] or [[+fi.fieldName]] in your form? Whatever is used for the caption in the form should be available for use in the error message line.

Quote from: BobRay at Dec 08, 2010, 01:44 AM

Did you try [[+fieldName]] or [[+fi.fieldName]] in your form? Whatever is used for the caption in the form should be available for use in the error message line.

I assumed you mean using [[+fieldName]] or [[fi.fieldName]] in the lexicon entry. I have tried that and no joy. I even tried putting a call to FormItRetriever on the same page with the contact form just in case that would trigger something.

Any other ideas, anyone?

I think Bob meant for you to put those placeholders in the relevant form chunk, not the Lexicon.

Quote from: Everett at Dec 08, 2010, 11:56 AM

I think Bob meant for you to put those placeholders in the relevant form chunk, not the Lexicon.

It almost sounded like that and maybe I’m a little dense today, but where would I put them? Concatenated with the error messages? How would the parser know which was which?

Quote from: kenquad at Dec 08, 2010, 11:58 AM

Quote from: Everett at Dec 08, 2010, 11:56 AM

I think Bob meant for you to put those placeholders in the relevant form chunk, not the Lexicon.

It almost sounded like that and maybe I’m a little dense today, but where would I put them? Concatenated with the error messages? How would the parser know which was which?

Good point. It would show all the time unless you used a separate placeholder for it and I’m not sure how you’d set it. Shaun might have an idea.

It’d require the name of the field currently being parsed passed into the error message tpl parsing.

File? http://github.com/splittingred/FormIt/issues/

I’d love to file a feature request for field names in error messages. How do I get set up to file one on your Github?

You get a GitHub account and file one, I think.