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= Required Field Validation in Trac =
{{{
#!html
<div class="system-message" float="left" overflow="auto">
<b>Notice:</b> This plugin is deprecated. Please use the <a href="http://trac-hacks.org/wiki/TicketValidatorPlugin">TicketValidatorPlugin</a>.
</div>
}}}

== Description ==

With these few simple changes, you can designate ticket fields (including custom ticket fields) as required in the trac.ini file.

== Bugs/Feature Requests == 

Existing bugs and feature requests for BasicFieldValidationPatch are 
[report:9?COMPONENT=BasicFieldValidationPatch here].

If you have any issues, create a 
[http://trac-hacks.org/newticket?component=BasicFieldValidationPatch&owner=sambloomquist new ticket].

== Instructions ==
Download the source, unzip to a temporary location, and copy the api.py, model.py, and web_ui.py files into ''yourpythoninstallation''/lib/site-packages/trac/ticket

Note that these changes were made to the 0_9_5 source.  If you've got a different version and want to see what the specific changes are in order to make them by hand, check out revision [857]. (Note: I've successfully applied the patch in [857] to the 0_10_4 source, it was very straightforward - anonymous.)

== Download ==

Download the zipped source from [download:basicfieldvalidationpatch here].

== Source ==

You can check out BasicFieldValidationPatch from [http://trac-hacks.org/svn/basicfieldvalidationpatch here] using Subversion, or [source:basicfieldvalidationpatch browse the source] with Trac.

== Example ==
Once you've patched the three python files you can use this patch by adding ''fieldname''.required = true to the trac.ini file:

{{{
#!ini
[ticket]
milestone.required = true
}}}

== Recent Changes ==

[[ChangeLog(basicfieldvalidationpatch, 3)]]

== Author/Contributors ==

'''Author:''' [wiki:sambloomquist] [[BR]]
'''Maintainer:''' ''none (deprecated)'' [[BR]]
'''Contributors:'''