Be more permissive when validating the movement of conditinal fields between groups [#687836]

Since not all combinations of conditional fields and groups are possible (that is: fields inside controlled groups can only control or be controlled by fields in the same group), when a user tries to move a conditional field from a group or into a group, validation fails and a message is shown: "You can't change the parent group of a conditional field."
We could make the message more informative, and the error appear only when the move would actually cause problems.

A workaround is:
1) Clear the conditional settings of the field you want to move.
2) Move it.
3) Make the field conditional again.

Comments

Comment #1

fourmi4x CreditAttribution: fourmi4x commented 16 March 2011 at 16:40

I confirm the bug.
Many thanks for the workaround !

Comment #2

HongPong CreditAttribution: HongPong commented 29 April 2011 at 22:07

Title:

Allow changing group of conditional fields

» Allow changing group of conditional fields [Workaround]

Thanks this made life easier.

Comment #3

bserem CreditAttribution: bserem commented 18 January 2012 at 16:22

Since a had a field that controlled 97 other fields the above was not an option.

What I did and worked was even easier though:

I disabled Conditional Fields (the module, from the modules page)
moved my field under the fieldgroup
enabled the module

and everything worked ;)

Comment #4

peterpoe CreditAttribution: peterpoe commented 31 January 2012 at 18:18

Title:	Allow changing group of conditional fields [Workaround]	» Be more permissive when validating the movement of conditinal fields between groups
Status:	Active	» Fixed

I just committed a fix to this. Now the error is thrown only when moving fields would actually cause a disallowed situation, and error is more informative.