Resetting FormAPI events

Hi,

Does anyone know whether it is possible to reset an onClose event. I have a scenario whereby if the user clicks on the "Finish" button of a DCR an onClose event is triggered. I have registered the formapi event for onClose to invoke a javascript function, which checks to see whether the content was generated. If not, then a warning message appears and the user can then go and generate the page.

As soon as the page is generated the DCR auomatically closes because the onClose event is still active. I do not want this to happen. I want the user to explicitly close the DCR. So is there any way whereby I can reset the onClose event if the user has not generated the content?

I have tried to use
IWEventRegistry.removeFormHandler("onClose");
but that does not seem to work.

TeamSite 6.7.0
Solaris

Thanks
Mashuk

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Hi,

Does anyone know whether it is possible to reset an onClose event. I have a scenario whereby if the user clicks on the "Finish" button of a DCR an onClose event is triggered. I have registered the formapi event for onClose to invoke a javascript function, which checks to see whether the content was generated. If not, then a warning message appears and the user can then go and generate the page.

As soon as the page is generated the DCR auomatically closes because the onClose event is still active. I do not want this to happen. I want the user to explicitly close the DCR. So is there any way whereby I can reset the onClose event if the user has not generated the content?

I have tried to use
IWEventRegistry.removeFormHandler("onClose");
but that does not seem to work.

TeamSite 6.7.0
Solaris

Thanks
Mashuk

Make sure that your "onClose" Event handler unconditionally returns false. That cancels an actual close.

Note though that
a) There is no way to stop your user from simply killing browser's window (you know, that fat red square on the upper right corner) and
b) None of that will work if the DCR is opened in the View mode.

This sort of functionality is usually achieved with Workflows where validation Task(s) make sure that all is done
correctly and loop processing back if not.

Mashuk

The onClose event does return false, but the DCR still closes after the page is generated. The order of events are:

1) User enters content into DCT and saves.
2) User previews the content, but does not generate and clicks on Finish
3) FormAPI event registered for onClose. This checks that the user has generated content, if not prompts the user to generate content.
4) User generates the content. As soon as content is generated, the DCR closes automatically.

I do not want this to happen, so I have found a workaround, whereby if the user has not generated the content, an alert is displayed to the user and then the dcr is reloaded cancelling any onClose event. By doing this, when the user generates the content, the dcr DOES NOT close.

I am also aware that the user can close the DCR by clicking on the X button. Thats something the users need to be aware of.

Thanks
Mashuk