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Suppress Save Form As Dialog

Samir_Friend

Hi,

I need to suppress the Save Form As dialog while saving a DCR because I have implemented custom autonaming. Currently, if I use onSave event, the dialog gets suppressed but the user is able to save the incomplete DCR(the DCR gets saved but the window remains open with Highlighted mode equal to true). If I use onSaveValid, I get this dialog.
I need to find a way to use onSaveValid for first checking the validations and then calling the custom function to save DCR with the Save Form As Dialog suppressed.

Any pointers please?

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curiousmaverick

OnSave event should check for validations because onSaveValid comes after that.

Can you share your custome code that you are caliing onSave to autoname the DCR?

Samir_Friend

OnSave event should check for validations because onSaveValid comes after that.

Can you share your custome code that you are caliing onSave to autoname the DCR?

onSave is checking for the validations but only after DCR has been saved with the custom name.

Here's a part of that code:

IWEventRegistry.addFormHandler("onSave", handleOnSaveValid);

....
....

function handleOnSaveValid()
{
 // automatically get a dcr name if it doesn't have one already

 if ((IWDCRInfo.getDCRName() == null) || (IWDCRInfo.getDCRName() == ''))
 {
  //IWDatacapture.setHighlightMode(true);
  retrieveDCRName();
  return false;
 }
 else
 {
  //save_callback();
  return true;
 } 
}

The retieveDCRName function is being used to generate a custom name for the DCR. If I use onSave it is called before the highlighted mode becomes true(the save form as dialog is blocked in this case). However, if I use onSaveValid, the validations occur before the DCR name is set but then I am getting the Save Form As Dialog which I need to suppress.

Samir_Friend

Probably, I can call the retrieveDCRName function after validating all the DCT field values when using onSave but I don't want to include checks for all my DCT fields in my code.

Is there anything available OOTB to check for a valid DCR in FormAPI(whole DCR, not just for a single item) OR any FormAPI function which I can use to suppress the Save as Dialog when using onSaveValid? I can't seem to find it in the documentation.

curiousmaverick

so where exactly are your validations? Are there any additional validation on items that you are doing from formAPI?

Samir_Friend

so where exactly are your validations? Are there any additional validation on items that you are doing from formAPI?

Currently, the only validation that I am trying with, is required="t" in the DCT code. There are no other custom validations through FormAPI.

curiousmaverick

You'll have to use onSaveValid. The flow will be something like below.

Call your autonaming function onSaveValid. Function will assign a name to the DCR and then do a IWDatacapture.save().

Samir_Friend

You'll have to use onSaveValid. The flow will be something like below.

Call your autonaming function onSaveValid. Function will assign a name to the DCR and then do a IWDatacapture.save().

Tried it already. This is what happens in this case:

1. User canot save DCR without passing the validations(as expected).
2. When the user clicks on Finish or Save and the form is validated, I get the Save Form As dialog and in the background the DCR is being saved with the custom name(which I wanted).

The only concern which I have while using onSaveValid is now suppressing the Save Form As dialog so that it never shows up. Do you know of any way to do that?

ISCBorisB

Tried it already. This is what happens in this case:

1. User canot save DCR without passing the validations(as expected).
2. When the user clicks on Finish or Save and the form is validated, I get the Save Form As dialog and in the background the DCR is being saved with the custom name(which I wanted).

The only concern which I have while using onSaveValid is now suppressing the Save Form As dialog so that it never shows up. Do you know of any way to do that?

Within templating.cfg you can remove SaveAs (or any other action button) through "actionlist" attribute of the "viewoptions" Tag,
take a look at FormsPublisher Developer’s Guide

Samir_Friend

Within templating.cfg you can remove SaveAs (or any other action button) through "actionlist" attribute of the "viewoptions" Tag,
take a look at FormsPublisher Developer’s Guide

Hi Boris,

The issue here is not to remove the SaveAs button from DCT but to suppress the Save Form As dialog when I am using custom autonaming. Is there any OOTB or custom way this can achieved?

ISCBorisB

Hi Boris,

The issue here is not to remove the SaveAs button from DCT but to suppress the Save Form As dialog when I am using custom autonaming. Is there any OOTB or custom way this can achieved?

As long as you allow "Save As" to proceed, unconditionally or with some FormAPI validation
it will expose "SaveAs" dialog at some point. After all, that's what "Save As" really is,
a mechanism to allow your user to save modified assets with some arbitrary name (think
"SaveAs" in any other software you've dealt with). So, IMO you have the following options:

- Remove "SaveAs" Button altogether
- Block "SaveAs" through FormAPI (return false on one of the Save events if the name has been provided automatically, etc)
- Customize (hack?) underlying "SaveAs" JSP(s) to achieve a desired behavior. This option is certainly not supported

Come to think about it, second options provides some flexibility. You can perhaps check for the name and return true
if it is NOT provided thus activating standard SaveAs Dialog. If it is provided, issue a "TimeOut" call for your own
"mySave" function and immediately return false to block SaveAs. Just a thought...

curiousmaverick

I did exactly what you've been looking for in one of our implementations ans it was done using onSaveValid.

Can you send your DCT and JS? I'd want to try it in my test environment.