how to check if a button was clicked

i have a requirement where i have a field called Reserve URL . this is a text field in which the author comes in and enter a URL for this page. this field also has a button, when this button is a clicked a script runs to the database and checks if this url has been reserved.

it is working up to this point. all i want to make sure is when the author saves the DCR an even checks if this button was clicked or not.

i dont want to use an alert message to tell the author to click the button to reserve the URL every time the author changes the url , it is annoying.

is there a way that i can tell which certain button on my form was clicked , i know about standard buttons such as save, finish etc.

???

i appreciate all ur help

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ISCBorisB

...when this button is a clicked a script runs...

It sound like you already intercept this Button clicks. Why don't you set a flag to true at this point and then check it
later in the event handler of one of the "onSave..." Events?

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brvhrt

It sound like you already intercept this Button clicks. Why don't you set a flag to true at this point and then check it
later in the event handler of one of the "onSave..." Events?

Thanks ISC i was looking for ur reply. that was my other option that i was thinking about to get this thing done. i just wanted to make sure if by any chance there is a way which we can learn if any button is been clicked just as we do from Save, Finish buttons etc. (true, false flags)

i think that is what i am going to do for now and see what the business will say.

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ISCBorisB

i just wanted to make sure if by any chance there is a way which we can learn if any button is been clicked just as we do from Save, Finish buttons etc

Such mechanism does exist, check onCallout Event and samples in FormAPI Manual. Your problem though is that during subsequent
*onSave...* Event processing you want to know if some onCallout Event(s) happened prior to it. Some Flag setting seems to be the easiest way to do it.