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In my use case where a social worker creates one or more children contacts using webform,  I'm not sure how the second or subsequent child can get validated.  It's easy to set various fields as required for the first child; but completion of the second and subsequent child contact is optional for the social worker.  So I can't set fields in these records to required...  And I don't see how the validation rules of webform can be manipulated to check these extra contacts - so a contact record could be created that's invalid in CiviCRM.  For example, a user could put only a first name in the second record and it would be accepted by CiviCRM - which is invalid.  BTW, I have installed the Webform validation module. Is there a way of setting up a webform to fix this problem? Something I've missed?

I solved this validation problem using conditionals - at the end of contact 2 (the first child) I put a radio button 'Another child' that defaulted to 'No'.  The conditional is set to only display the second child record (actually a fieldset) if 'Another child' is set to 'Yes'.  What's neat about this is that you can set fields as being 'required' on the non-displayed records, which only comes into effect if that record is displayed.

Webform is so cool....