I have a form developped in designer with several required fields.
I need to make shure that all required field are entered before saving the filled form. I notice that the button provided by designder to send an email, it validated that all the fields are entered and if any one is empty, it is marked in red. I noticed that there are not javascripts in that button.
I need that functionality in the save button that I included in the form.
How can I do that? validate all required fields before saving the form.
Validating required fields before saving the form
2007-06-06 16:44:36
My Product Information:
Acrobat Pro 8, Windows
Acrobat Pro 8, Windows
2007-08-06 13:28:43
#2
Thom, are you saying that a "SaveAs" button absolutely cannot validate required fields? That your idea of "forcing validations" is only possible with the use of the "prePrint" event of a Print button?
2007-08-06 14:46:51
#3
As it happens, there is a pre-save event as well and the same discussion applies to it.
2007-08-07 08:35:10
#4
Thom -getting close here. I applied the preSave event to the button..no errors, but still won't validate. This is a regular button that already contains an onclick event
app.execMenuItem("SaveAs");
I certainly appreciate your help.
app.execMenuItem("SaveAs");
I certainly appreciate your help.
2008-07-18 09:38:55
#5
How does one 'capture' a preSave event in standard .PDF forms, not Lifecycle?
Per chance any sample code?
Will the preSave event fire on a Ctrl-S from the user? And if so, what is nessary to re-route them back into the form to fix validation issues (this.resetForum();)?
Thanks for any help/guidance given.
Per chance any sample code?
Will the preSave event fire on a Ctrl-S from the user? And if so, what is nessary to re-route them back into the form to fix validation issues (this.resetForum();)?
Thanks for any help/guidance given.
form1.execValidate();
Where "form1" is the top subform. This does not stop the document from printing. It just displays the validation message if there is an error. So what you need to do is create a custom print button with your own JavaScript on it. The "execValidate()" function returns true or false depending on the result of the validation test.
Thom Parker
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www.pdfscripting.com
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