By Craig Cockburn, IT Professional from Scotland. Critical Thinking, Agile Delivery, Politics and Society
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11 June 2006
Webforms and mandatory fields
I find when I encounter a webform that has excessive mandatory fields, putting the word "optional" into the windows clipboard and repeatedly pasting it into the mandatory fields allows the form to be completed with the minimum of time wasting and also sends a strong message to any interested in the (ahem) "essential" data collected by the form.
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