Form field validation/error doesn't highlight the tab where the error occurred about silverstripe-cms HOT 2 CLOSED

Turns out the gridfield edit form doesn't have the tab highlight functionality, so this is specific to editing SiteTree.
Confirmed that this is only incorrect when using validation from form fields, which for some reason use "validation" as the error type, which isn't technically a valid type (should use one of the consts on ValidationResult), but it's been there forever so we can't just change that in a patch.

I'll make a PR with the minimal change required to fix this.

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Thanks for raising this. It's definitely a bug.

I'm not sure what you mean by "page error". We have two validation error messages here:

1. EmailField form field validation error message - this is a form validation error
2. RequiredFields validator error message - this is a form validation error

The only difference I can see between the two with a quick glance is that one uses the "required" message type, and the other uses the "validation" message type - but both should definitely display the same way.

I would expect a "page error" to be one that comes from the validate() method on your page. Did you check whether that one indicates the tab or not?

You've raised this against the silverstripe/silverstripe-cms repository - does this mean you have confirmed that these both behave/display the same way when editing records in a GridField (e.g. in a ModelAdmin)?

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