How to bypass required = true validation message on a link click.

[valatharv]

Please suggest on how to by-pass required="true" validation on particular link click...

Situation :
I have a form field whose value is required.

when user clicks "Save", h:inputText is validated if it is null i.e. gives proper message as "value is required".

However, I have a functionality to remove "h:inputText" filed. When I click "Remove" and value in "h:inputText" is null it still validates i.e. gives message "value is required".
How can I bypass validation on clicking "Remove" link.

xhtml:
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<h:messages globalOnly="true" styleClass="message" id="globalMessages"/>
<h:form id="study" styleClass="edit">
<td align="center" class="dr-subtable-cell rich-subtable-cell" height="20%">
    <h:commandLink action="#{studyHome.removeReagent}" value="Remove" immediate="true"/>                                 
</td>

<td align="center" class="dr-subtable-cell rich-subtable-cell" height="20%">
     <s:decorate template="layout/edit.xhtml">
          <h:inputText id="pname1" required="true" value="#{info.pname}"/>
     </s:decorate>
</td>

<h:commandButton id="save" value="Save" action="#{studyHome.persist}"
     disabled="#{!studyHome.wired}" rendered="#{!studyHome.managed}"/>
</h:form>

[nickarls]

Strange. Still the same without the decorate? You could of course have an actionListener on the commandLink that sets a boolean flag and have required bound to that but that seams like overkill...

[wrzep]

Hm, maybe use s:link instead of h:commandButton. It does not submit the form :)

-Pawel

[valatharv]

Hmmmm..... I was knowing that s:link does not submits the form and tried it before... but definitely I was doing something wrong...

It works with s:link... :) thanks a lot....