When a nomination line doesn't include required info, it still shows a green checkmark on save
#221 opened on Feb 9, 2025
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Description
In the nomination form, if I enter partial info but I don’t put anything in one of the required fields, and then I click the Save button, the fields that I did enter get green checkboxes (so they look like they’ve been saved), but they aren’t really saved.
Example:
In the Game category, as a test, I entered some text in the Developer field, but I left the Title field blank. Then I clicked “Save as you go.” That put a green checkmark on the Developer field, but I also got a message saying that the Title field was required. (See attached screenshot.)
I then asked the system to email my ballot to me, and that Developer text that I had entered wasn’t in the emailed ballot.
Nicholas confirms that the Developer text that I entered on that incomplete line wasn’t saved in the system.
And the combination of the green checkmark and the “This field is required” error message felt to me like they were sending mixed messages about what had or hadn’t been saved.
Expected: If something hasn’t been saved, I would expect that it wouldn’t get a green checkmark.
(This too is not a showstopper; Nicholas says, and I agree, that we shouldn’t slow down the launch in order to change this.)