I'm trying to use the Jquery builtin validator on my page. The issue is that I have certain fields that only are required if the JobID (entered into another field) does not already exist in our database. I have a simple service which simply takes JobID and returns True or False based on whether the JobID exists, but I can't seem to get this information where I want it. Some sample code:
$("#dep_form").validate({
rules: {
JobID: {
required: true,
digits: true,
minlength: 3
},
OrgName: {
required: function(element) { //This field is required if the JobID is new.
return $("#jobinfo").html().length==15; }
}
},
messages: {
JobID: {
required: "Enter a Job Number.",
digits: "Only numbers are allowed in Job ID's.",
minlength: "Job Number must be at least 3 digits"
},
OrgName: {
required: "Select a Practice from the dropdown list."
}
},
errorClass: "ui-state-error-input",
errorLabelContainer: "#errorbox",
errorElement: 'li',
errorContainer: "#validation_errors",
onfocusout: false,
onkeyup: false,
focusinvalid: false
};
Currently, I'm using a lazy method to validate (shown above). However, I now have access to a service using the URL:
var lookupurl = "/deposits/jobidvalidate/?q=" + $("#id_JobID").val() + "&t=" + new Date().getTime();
which is a page which will contain just the word True or False based on whether that given JobID exists. I've tried half a dozen different ways of setting variables and calling functions within functions and still cannot get a way to simply return the value of that page (which I've been trying to access with $.get() ) to my validator, so that required is set to true when the Job does not exist and false if the job already exists. Any suggestions? Thanks.
