Question about creating a messege box.

Yes and no. You can give the user a message by adding a script to the "MouseUp" event on the submit button. But you can't know from JavaScript if the email has really been sent.

The popup would at least slow them down. The message could be something like, "Please check your email program to make sure the message was sent".

Update: Never mind I figued it out, thanks for your help you got me thinking and put me on the right track.

An example I put together, of course we wouldn't pull someones yellow cable for dumping 100's of repeat forms into the director of IT's email.
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xfa.host.messageBox("Your email has been submitted to your mail box, verify that it is in your sent folder and ensure it has been set on its marry way. If you continue to hit the button fully knowing that it sent the first time your yellow cable will be pulled.", 3, 1)
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Actually that sounds very close to what I wanted..

I just needed something that will show them that,
something happened.

What would the formcalc on the OnMouseEvent look
like?

You've already got it. The message box code you show will work in either FormCalc or JavaScript, doesn't matter. But make sure it's in the "MouseUp" event.

Sure did. Its under scripting methods if anyone ever trys to find it again.

Also found the beep...

xfa.host.beep("2")

Thanks Again.

This does work, except when the user did not fill in all required fields. The message is displayed on the mouseUp event as expexted. but, then the message about required fields is displayed. The fields are highlighted and the form was NOT submitted. Is there a better place to put the message so that it will display after the required fields are successfully validated?

Unfortunately, from code there is no easy way to know if data has actually been submitted or not. Validating required fields is part of the submit process and there is no feedback about this either.

You can use a Submit Script instead of the submit button action. This gives you much greater control over what happens. Validate the fields in code before calling "submitForm".

There is also a preSubmit event. But this event is called before submit validation takes place and it cannot be used to stop a submit, it's only good for modifying data before the submit happens.

If you want greater control over this process the best thing to do is write your own submit script.

Thom Parker
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