Bypass required when save as draft

By: Charlie Etienne

Published: 28 May 2025 Updated: 28 May 2025

Unrequire fields recursively when saving as draft

Imagine you have a massive form with two buttons: Save as Draft and Submit, where all fields or a lot of them are required to submit.

You may want to let users save the form as draft even if it's incomplete.

Here's what you could do:

Here, the unrequireFields method recursively remove the required for all the fields.

It also mark them as required thanks to the markAsRequired method in order to have the red asterisk even if the fields are not really required.

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