Global Message when field level validation fails

[tom_goring]

Hi,

I have a seam app that works great !

I'd like advise on the best way to add a global message when any field level validation happens.
E.g. Update Failed: Some fields in your form are in error (see below)

Currently in may pages I use

 <h:messages globalOnly="true" styleClass="message"/> 

for global messages and

 <s:decorate..> 

for field level validation.

Ideas ?

Thanks

Tom

[tdsproule]

You can observe event 'org.jboss.seam.validationFailed'

@Observer("org.jboss.seam.validationFailed")
public void addFailMessage() {
    facesMessages.add("Update Failed: Some fields in your form are in error (see below)");
}

Or you could perform some conditional page actions in pages.xml based on org.jboss.seam.faces.Validation

e.g.

<page view-id="/widget.xhtml"  login-required="true">     
      <action execute="#{actiontoaddmessage}" if="#{validation.failed}"/>
</page>

Remember you'll need to rerender the <h:messages/> if you have ajax behaviour on individual fields.

Hope this helps.

Todd