Turning Off Validations on Ajax Submits

[neilac333]

I am developing a RichFaces-Seam application. I have a page with 4 <s:div> tags that are mutually exclusive, so only one of them is rendered on the basis of a radio button selection. In other words, when a radio button is clicked, an ajax request is made to update the model, and a single div corresponding to that selection gets rendered as a result.

The problem is when I add validation within the divs in the form of required="true". When this is present, and I go to click on the radio button, the validations kick in because they happen before the model is updated in the JSF lifecycle. As a result, I see the error messages, and although the new radio button is selected, the corresponding div does not appear. The previous one remains.

In a conceptual sense, I basically want to distinguish between an Ajax submit and a synchronous submit and have the validation kick in only in the latter case.

Any insight into how to accomplish this is appreciated.

Thanks.

[sergeysmirnov]

Disable (turning off) of the validation is not a right strategy.
The right paradigm when you use RichFaces is limiting of the processing for the components that should be processed and bypass processing for the rest components.
Read the doc and see the examples how to do so. For example,
http://livedemo.exadel.com/richfaces-demo/richfaces/ajaxAttributes.jsf?c=ajaxattributes (Data Processing Options)
http://livedemo.exadel.com/richfaces-demo/richfaces/region.jsf?c=region