Posted by cruzeazy on March 4, 2011 at 12:15am
How do I remove N/A from Radio Button list?
I don't want the option required.
I have seen these two Documentation pages:
http://drupal.org/node/617694, and http://drupal.org/node/656622, but they pertain to CCK on D6.
Thanks
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Try not making the field
Try not making the field mandatory
Mandatory Field
I didn't make the field mandatory. When you make it mandatory the n/a goes away, but I don't want the field mandatory.
Ditto
Has anyone got a solution for this? I also don't want to make the field mandatory.
The reasoning of why the n/a
The reasoning of why the n/a appears in this situation makes sense to me: "Removing the n/a option means a user cannot empty the field. 'no value' is a valid value for a non-required field." But I also get that it won't always make sense from a user's perspective.
It would be nice if you could change what N/A said, that you could make it the default, and that it would be selected again when you come back to edit it.
However, there is one non-coding workaround to at least address the language issue:
Make the field required, AND add your own version of the N/A that makes sense in context: unknown, undecided, decline to answer, etc... And make it the default value.
The downside to this is that this answer would appear in the content (unlike when N/A is selected).
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The problem is there are perfectly valid use cases for actively forcing the user to make a selection that does not include any type of n/a. Providing a default means it could be that the user didn't even bother to read the question or actually select the submitted response.
I haven't had to do this for d7 yet, but in a pinch you could use a select list instead.
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makes sense, except:
just an FYI, this might be an "edge case":
I'm adding a "gender" checkbox to my user profile and preselect it with male (90% male audience on my site...).
I don't want to make it a required field on registration, only on "edit" to fill out additional profile fields.
If I make the field required it will automatically be required on the user registration page.
I can hide the DIV for the "N/A" option with css.
It gets worse with the below
It gets worse with the below bug. If you make a radio field required, then you are screwed when submitting the form when no user selects it. So what, you say? If you use javascript/ajax/conditional fields module to create conditional forms, then you are S.O.L.
http://drupal.org/node/811542
Bug since 2010
Not Answered
Wouldn't the solution in this edge case be to check N/A by default and then hide it (either via css or in the form tpl.php) That way the default is "Not Answered" but both radio buttons can display as unchecked. I also think this wouldn't interfere with conditional fields.
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Well if we're talking of wriitng modules ...
Well, yes, any Drupal problem can be solved with writing your module or altering the form or template. I think the issue is that the person wants to do this without having to write anything (non-coding).
This may help
Try using something like this
<?phpunset($vars['form']['group_if_in_fieldset']['field_the_radios']['value']['']);
?>
removing NA field
If you are working with Drupal 7 and using the Drupal interface; after adding all of your fields, save. go back into manage field and remove the NA choice by deleting it. done.
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Use CSS
You can add a class definition of display:none, if you do not want it to be mandatory.
In this way you can mange it in both node create/edit form and also in node view.
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Using PHP & CSS
A quick solution is to have Drupal add a form-disabled class to the N/A form-item by adding the following function to your template.php file.
<?phpfunction <theme_name>_form_element($variables) {
$element = $variables['element'];
// Disable radio button N/A
if ($element['#type'] == 'radio' && $element['#return_value'] === '_none') {
$variables['element']['#attributes']['disabled'] = TRUE;
}
return theme_form_element($variables);
}
?>
Then you can use CSS to do
.form-radios .form-disabled {display: none;
}
You can remove using hook_form_alter
After adding bellowed single line's code on your hook_form_alter "N/A" removed from Radio Buttons.
<?phpunset($form['field_name']['und']['#options']['_none']);
?>
Thank you.