Validation hidden values

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Hello,

I'm trying to set a validation condition in hidden values.

I have a group of questions:

The first group, let's call them Type of participants:
Number of children (5 for example)
Number of parents (3 for example)

After that, I have a hidden value to calculate the added value (8 in the example).

Then, I have another group of questions for the disaggregated information by gender:

Number of female
Number of male

And again, a hidden value that calculates the total.

I want to include a validation that restricts the possibility to continue filling the document if the total by gender is not equal to the total by type of participants. Any solution?

Thanks in advance.

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Hi Gustavo,

You can add all the remaining questions in a group and use a display condition on the group, something like #form/total_participant = #form/total_participant_by_gender. This way the remaining questions inside the group will only be visible if the hidden values are equal.

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You can also use a label to hold the validation condition and prevent the user from proceeding, as described in Option 2 here:
https://confluence.dimagi.com/display/commcarepublic/Make+a+subset+of+questions+required

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