Validate Form on Change ONLY - smartclient

Question

Because much of our imported data technically has validation errors, users are unable to update fields without first correcting previously entered bad data. This wouldn't be a problem except that many times this user doesn't have the information needed to enter a correct value into that field but we still need to save their update.
Is it possible to disable the validate on submit for a DynamicForm?

Answer 1

Is it possible to disable the validate on submit for a DynamicForm?
there's a disableValidation attribute, it disables client-side validators.

Answer 2

The best solution I could find thus far.
I'm disabling validation and overridding getValues, which is called as part of saveData so I manually parse through any fields and look for errors. If I find an error I remove it from the return value and store it under the valuesManager.invalidatedFields.
If a field had an error it will not be included in the save, but because the server will return the original value I had to override setValues as well to prevent your (bad) change from being overridden.
Also, because getValues is called on initial load it validates on load as well.
isc.ValuesManager.create({
disableValidation: true,
invalidatedFields: {},
setValues: function(values){
console.log("setting values..", this.invalidatedFields);
for (var key in this.invalidatedFields) {
if (this.invalidatedFields.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
values[key] = this.invalidatedFields[key];
}
}
this.Super("setValues", arguments);
},
getValues: function () {
this.invalidatedFields = [];
var data = this.Super("getValues");
for (var key in data) {
if (data.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
var form = this.getMemberForField(key);
if (form && !form.getField(key).validate()) {
console.log(key + " failed validation", data[key]);
this.invalidatedFields[key] = data[key];
delete data[key];
}
}
}
return data;
}
});