Making fields required in OPC

I searched the WIKI best I could to see if this might have been covered there, but didn't find anything.

How to make fields required in the OPC? Had a brief look at it, but it's not like other forms in PC in this way (no surprise there, eh?).

Specifically, I need to make the phone number field required. Curious that it is a required field in the CP, but not on OPC.

Thanks, Greg. I guess that will work well enough for now.

Would actually like to get some pointers on making it function like the rest of the validation here.

I see in the language file that some thought was given to this:
items opc_js_16 through 18 have the language for the alerts if validation fails.

Perhaps EI forgot to finish this?

Sean - in terms of the phone number specifically, it was not made required in v4, however it's already come up a few times... so we're looking at making it a variable in v4.1.

Recently, a Canadian customer asked about also making the Postal Code required for Canadian customers and to do that, a store simply needs to add their country code to the list at the top of the OPC page. For example:

Change:

var CountriesRequireZipCode="US,"
var CountriesRequireStateCode="US,"
var CountriesRequireProvince=""

To:

var CountriesRequireZipCode="US, CA"
var CountriesRequireStateCode="US,"
var CountriesRequireProvince=""

I guess that you are saying is that it would be nice for the store admin to have virtually total control over which fields they want to make required?

Regards,

Cedric Adams
Early Impact

One thing that would be great is to require phone numbers for international orders.  Currently the post office requires it on international shipments going to post boxes only, but more will be required soon.  UPS requires it on all international shipments.  

Now that's what I'm talkin bout!

Thanks, did just what I wanted it to do.

So, moving forward, the question is: to allow folks to assign what fields should be required (I would expect that settings here would apply to both the control panel and the OPC) in the control panel, or to just put up a wiki post here on how to make fields required or not requited.

Immediate, easy way is to go the wiki route, IMHO.

Seems to me that the current un-required field here would be the phone number field as that is a bit of data most needed to follow up on potentially fraudulent orders.