diff --git a/planetstack/core/models/plcorebase.py b/planetstack/core/models/plcorebase.py
index 612e925..95959f4 100644
--- a/planetstack/core/models/plcorebase.py
+++ b/planetstack/core/models/plcorebase.py
@@ -206,6 +206,21 @@
     def is_ephemeral(cls):
 	return cls in ephemeral_models
 
+    def getValidators(self):
+        """ primarily for REST API, return a dictionary of field names mapped
+            to lists of the type of validations that need to be applied to
+            those fields.
+        """
+        validators = {}
+        for field in self._meta.fields:
+            l = []
+            if field.blank==False:
+                l.append("notBlank")
+            validators[field.name] = l
+        return validators
+
+
+
 
 
 
diff --git a/planetstack/core/xoslib/dashboards/xosAdminDashboard.html b/planetstack/core/xoslib/dashboards/xosAdminDashboard.html
index b41ac9f..8011884 100644
--- a/planetstack/core/xoslib/dashboards/xosAdminDashboard.html
+++ b/planetstack/core/xoslib/dashboards/xosAdminDashboard.html
@@ -27,6 +27,9 @@
   Are you sure about this?
 </div>
 
+<div id="xos-error-dialog" title="Error Message">
+</div>
+
 <div id="contentPanel">
 <div id="contentTitle">
 </div>
diff --git a/planetstack/core/xoslib/static/js/xoslib/xosHelper.js b/planetstack/core/xoslib/static/js/xoslib/xosHelper.js
index dc11670..8fa27a6 100644
--- a/planetstack/core/xoslib/static/js/xoslib/xosHelper.js
+++ b/planetstack/core/xoslib/static/js/xoslib/xosHelper.js
@@ -67,11 +67,23 @@
          }
     },
 
+    popupErrorDialog: function(responseText) {
+        $("#xos-error-dialog").html(templateFromId("#xos-error-response")($.parseJSON(responseText)));
+        $("#xos-error-dialog").dialog({
+            modal: true,
+            buttons: {
+                Ok: function() { $(this).dialog("close"); }
+            }
+        });
+    },
+
     showError: function(result) {
          result["statusclass"] = "failure";
          if (this.logTableId) {
              this.appendLogWindow(result);
+             this.popupErrorDialog(result.responseText);
          } else {
+             // this is really old stuff
              $(this.errorBoxId).show();
              $(this.errorBoxId).html(_.template($(this.errorTemplate).html())(result));
              var that=this;
diff --git a/planetstack/core/xoslib/templates/xosAdmin.html b/planetstack/core/xoslib/templates/xosAdmin.html
index bc6ac02..daccf88 100644
--- a/planetstack/core/xoslib/templates/xosAdmin.html
+++ b/planetstack/core/xoslib/templates/xosAdmin.html
@@ -1,5 +1,21 @@
 <!-- Error and Success templates -->
 
+<script type="text/template" id="xos-error-response">
+  <h5>Error</h5>
+  <table>
+  <tr><td>error:</td><td><%= error %></td></tr>
+  <tr><td>check:</td><td><%= specific_error %></td></tr>
+  </table>
+  <h5>Details:</h5>
+      <table>
+      <tbody>
+      <% _.each(reasons, function(element, index) { %>
+          <tr><td><%= index %></td><td><%= element %></td></tr>
+      <% }); %>
+      </tbody>
+      </table>
+</script>
+
 <script type="text/template" id="xos-error-template">
   <button id="close-error-box">Close Error Message</button>
   <h3>An error has occurred.</h3>