Ah, I see what you mean, I can now specify mandatory fields upon pressing the 'save' button... my problem is that I always want to automatically show a form whenever there is one for a given task, so on my web page I have the form, its 'save' button, and all of my transition links, so I would like to check for completion of mandatory fields upon clicking on the transition links also, do you have any ideas how I could implement this ? thanks for your help, Ross View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4079257#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...