Cannot delete node if CCK required field is empty
morningtime - August 10, 2009 - 19:07
| Project: | Content Construction Kit (CCK) |
| Version: | 7.x-2.x-dev |
| Component: | General |
| Category: | bug report |
| Priority: | normal |
| Assigned: | Unassigned |
| Status: | by design |
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Description
For example, I have a node with a CCK field "cost". This is set as a required field. But I uploaded items using NOde Import. Some nodes have empty cost field. Now, I want to delete the node with an empty required field, I am receiving the warning "Cost field must not be empty" etc. I think, when deleting nodes, it should not check any fields anymore. Just straight go to delete.
#1
This is not a bug in CCK, but something related to how the node edit form works.
Try editing any non-CCK node, a page for example, leave the title empty (which is a required field), and then hit the delete button. You'll also get "Title field is required".
On the other hande, you can delete your nodes by directly invoking the path node/XX/delete.
If you have a lot of nodes to delete, you may want to write a small snippet like:
<?php$nids = array( /* list of nids to delete. */ );
foreach ($nids as $nid) {
node_delete($nid);
}
?>
#2
It is also true for the d7 devel version. Maybe cck should drop the check on deleting. On the other hand, such nodes should really not be created on the first hand.
#3
This is how Form API validation works in D6. No way around this.
There's an ongoing effort to fix this in D7: #370537: Allow Partial Validation of Forms (aka, make "more" buttons work properly), but this is not going to change in D6.