Bug 11386

Summary: Mandatory fields in subscription add form should use standard formatting
Product: Koha Reporter: Katrin Fischer <katrin.fischer>
Component: SerialsAssignee: Julian Maurice <julian.maurice>
Status: CLOSED FIXED QA Contact: Testopia <testopia>
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: P5 - low CC: colin.campbell, gmcharlt, jonathan.druart, oleonard
Version: 3.14   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
Change sponsored?: --- Patch complexity: Small patch
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Bug Depends on: 7688    
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Attachments: Bug 11386: Use jQuery.validate plugin for subscription add/edit form
[SIGNED-OFF] Bug 11386 - Mandatory fields in subscription add form should use standard formatting
[PASSED QA] Bug 11386 - Mandatory fields in subscription add form should use standard formatting

Description Katrin Fischer 2013-12-11 20:25:59 UTC
The mandatory fields on the subscription add form are not highlighting when you miss to enter data in one. Also, they are using (*) instead of the standard formatting.
Comment 1 Julian Maurice 2013-12-18 11:26:17 UTC
Hi Katrin,

What is the "standard formatting" exactly? Text in red, followed by "Required" ?
What do you mean by "[they] are not highlighting when you miss to enter data" ? Is there a form in Koha that do that already ?
Comment 2 Katrin Fischer 2013-12-18 11:44:36 UTC
Hi Julian,

take a look at the administration > branches form. There is a newer Javascript library that can be used to achieve these things in Koha.
The bug is here: http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=6209

CCing Owen as the expert :)

There is another thing about the form that troubles me - the date fields are now readonly. This is an accessibility problem as not everyone is able to use the date plugin. Could you reconsider those? I think we have other examples that allow direct entry of dates. (I can file a separate bug later).
Comment 3 Julian Maurice 2013-12-19 09:51:40 UTC
> There is another thing about the form that troubles me - the date
> fields are now readonly. This is an accessibility problem as not
> everyone is able to use the date plugin. Could you reconsider those?
Do you mean this is a problem when Javascript is disabled? Is it OK if date fields are enabled by default, and then set readonly by Javascript ?
Comment 4 Katrin Fischer 2013-12-19 10:00:05 UTC
I think as Koha relies heavily on Javascript turning off Javascript is not an option, also modern tools seem to support it to some level. As I understood it the problem is that using the date widget with a screenreader or braille line is not possible - so typing in the date directly is what should be a valid alternative.
Comment 5 Julian Maurice 2013-12-19 11:08:40 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 6 Owen Leonard 2014-03-12 19:19:30 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 7 Katrin Fischer 2014-03-13 15:48:15 UTC
Created attachment 26312 [details] [review]
[PASSED QA] Bug 11386 - Mandatory fields in subscription add form should use standard formatting

Use jQuery.validate plugin for subscription add/edit form and remove
readonly attribute on date fields, as datepicker is not available for
everyone.

Signed-off-by: Owen Leonard <oleonard@myacpl.org>
Signed-off-by: Katrin Fischer <Katrin.Fischer.83@web.de>
Works as described, passes tests, and QA script.
Comment 8 Galen Charlton 2014-03-13 16:55:25 UTC
Pushed to master.  Thanks, Julian!