Task: Show a field error on the field

Table of Contents

This page documents a task in the See and change everything a report runs story. It captures the goal, current status, acceptance, and any notes or results.

1. Goal

A person who types a value a setting refuses sees the field in red with the reason beside it, for example Threads must be at least 1.

2. Status

Field Value
State DONE
Parent story See and change everything a report runs
Now Nothing.
Waiting on Nothing.
Next Nothing.
Last touched 2026-10-23

3. Acceptance

  • The invalid field shows the error state and its message sits directly below it.
  • The rule applies to every setting field of the three groups, with a test for a whole number and a choice.

4. Plan

(Implementation strategy. Written when work starts; key decisions are distilled into the parent story's * Decisions at close, but the plan itself stays — it is the historical record of what we did.)

5. Measurements

Every number this task claims about a tree, with the command that produced it and the commit it was measured at. A number without both is not a measurement, because a clean-up record describes a tree and trunk moves under a branch: a consumer count, a gate's component count and a suite's size all change with no code changing, and the reader of a bare number cannot tell which tree it came from. Where the raw output matters, put it in an evidence/ file beside the task and name that file in the Command column.

What Value Command Commit
       

6. Notes

7. Test Scenarios

Manual QA scenarios (scaffolded via compass add test_scenario) that verify this task. Link new ones here as they're created; the scenario doc itself links back via its "Verifies task" field.

Scenario State Notes
     

8. PRs

PR Title
   

9. Review

Comment summary File Decision Notes
       

10. Result

A setting whose text is not a value it takes shows its field in red, with the reason in red directly below it. The mark is the aria-invalid state, which every field of the application now draws the same way. A problem for a setting that a filter hides is still stated above the fields, so Save is never disabled without a reason.

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