611364 - Suggest KB article required fields are marked as required

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(support.mozilla.org :: Knowledge Base Software, task, P5)

Description

[Rebecca Billings [:rbillings]]

It would be nice if when creating a new article, or translating one, that required fields are marked by an asterisk or some visual cue that this field is necessary.

Comment 1

[James Socol [:jsocol, :james]]

I wish Django forms just did this for you and added a 'required' class to required fields, but sadly they don't.

Seems like setting the widget attrs attribute is the best option.

http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/forms/widgets/#django.forms.Widget.attrs

Nice-to-have for 2.3, but not end of the world if we miss this. One has to touch a lot of code.

Comment 2

[Scoobidiver (away)]

Warnings exist and prevent from creating an article without a:
* title
* slug
* search summary
* content
* product
* topic

Note that you can set a topic not belonging to the selected product(s).