Its not possible to go to the previous page of a multistep form unless you enter values for all the required fields on the current page. I'm wondering if it would be possible to skip form validation when going back in the form since the page will be returned to and then validate on 'submit' or 'next' which ever applies.

In particular I'm seeing this on a page that has a set of radio buttons that is required but starts with no default value. I can't leave this page to go back unless I put in a choice and this isn't desirable since there will eventually be 10 such components on the page.

Please advise - I'm marking this as support vs. a bug report until better understand it. I think its the core validation on #required that is catching this on the go back a page.

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quicksketch
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Status: Active » Closed (duplicate)

See #266287: mandatory components interfere with previous page button .

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dldege commented

Darn it - I read like 50 issues to make sure this wasn't a duplicate so I'm not sure how I missed that. Thanks for the pointer to the correct issue. I'll post there if I have any ideas.