I have a form as:

<form method='post' action="submit.cfm" id='formid' class="formclass" name="formname">
    <input type='submit' name='submit' value="save">
    <input type='submit' name='submitDraft' value="save draft">
</form>

Now without jQuery, I can submit the form and it will validate with html required fields for whichever fields it needs to be, and I will fill it and save it, now for the save draft, I want to save it without validation and trying to use jQuery to accomplish this but it's not working as expected.

I tried like this:

$("#formid").submit(function(event) {
    event.preventDefault();   // prevent default action 
    var post_url = $(this).attr("action");   // get form action url
    var form_data = $(this).serialize();     // Encode form elements for submission
    
    $.post( post_url, form_data, function( response ) {
      $("#server-results").html( response );
    });
});

Now can I kill 2 birds with one stone, any feasible solution? There is no upload field, so I am safe from that perspective.

More tried came up with

<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).on('submit','#formid',function(event) {
   event.preventDefault(); //prevent default action 
   var _id = $(this).find("#saved").attr('id');
   if(_id == 'saved') {
      alert('hi');
      var isDrafted = 0;
      $.validate({
         modules : 'date, file'
      });
   } else {
      alert('hello');
      var isDrafted = 1;
      var post_url = $(this).attr("action"); //get form action url
      var form_data = $(this).serialize() & '&isDrafted=' + isDrafted; //Encode form elements for submission
      
      $.post( post_url, form_data, function( response ) {
        $("#server-results").html(response);
      });
   }
});
</script>

Now I am using a formvalidation.net validator, its old but its working, and honestly it is going to be mess to replace it, so how can I make this work?

Something else noticed, I had to click the button twice before it shows validation messages when clicked on save.

And the whose context is save means submit to the action page to save in database