Can JavaScript fire a LiveCycle submit event?

[Former Community Member]

Hello,



I went down the road of attaining finer control over the user experience when submitting a form or document, things like aborting the submit if the user responds negatively to a popup warning. The common wisdom seemed to be, "Instead of the LiveCycle submit button you need to use a simple button, do whatever scripting you want to do, and as the final step use the Acrobat API event.target.mailDoc() method."



I've tried that, and it does indeed work. However, I feel like the LiveCycle Submit button has a little better handle on actually orchestrating the dispatch of the form. Most significantly, the LiveCycle Submit button provides the popup with a radio button choice between desktop email and browser email, which I think is an important feature. I don't get that with the Acrobat API event.target.mailDoc().



So, here is my point. I'm wondering if I can have both... provide a simple button that does whatever fine-tuned scripting I want to do, and THEN it causes a LiveCycle email submission to fire?

[Former Community Member]

"Process Fields" in the object library uses a hidden submit button. The visible button fires the click event on the hidden submit button. Just add your logic in there.



Mind posting an example of your popup? I need a simple message with OK, Cancel and have not yet spent to effort of creating one.

[Former Community Member]

Your hint is working for me perfectly.



Here is the example of a popup you requested.



var isOK = true;



[ do validating of various kinds, use isOK as the flag... ]



if (isOK)

{ var Mbox = xfa.host.messageBox

("Are sure you want to commit the form and email it?\n\n"+

"If you click OK, all fill-in fields will be closed to "+

"further changes, and the final result will be prepared "+

"for email.\n\n"+

"If you are not sure you are ready, click CANCEL to resume "+

"work on the form.\n\n"+

"Hint: Save a local copy before using the Commit button, "+

"and you will have the option to make future revisions on "+

"that copy.", "Confirmation", 2,1);

if (Mbox != 1) isOK = false;

}



if (isOK)

{ app.runtimeHighlight = false;

for (nPageCount = 0; nPageCount < xfa.host.numPages; nPageCount++)

{ oFields = xfa.layout.pageContent(nPageCount, "field");

nNodesLength = oFields.length;

for (nNodeCount = 0; nNodeCount < nNodesLength; nNodeCount++)

{ oField = oFields.item (nNodeCount);

sName = oField.name;

if (sName == "Up" || sName == "Down" || sName == "Insert" || sName == "Remove" || sName == "Spawn")

oField.presence = "invisible";

else if (sName == "Print" || sName == "Submit"); // No action

else oField.access = "readOnly";

}

}



/* Fire the hidden submit button */



parent.HiddenSubmit.execEvent ("click");

}

[Former Community Member]

Sorry about the appearance of that. If you'd like to see the form as a PDF, send me your email address.

[Former Community Member]

Got it, just needed this part:



var Mbox = xfa.host.messageBox

("Are sure you want to commit the form and email it?\n\n"+

"If you click OK, all fill-in fields will be closed to "+

"further changes, and the final result will be prepared "+

"for email.\n\n"+

"If you are not sure you are ready, click CANCEL to resume "+

"work on the form.\n\n"+

"Hint: Save a local copy before using the Commit button, "+

"and you will have the option to make future revisions on "+

"that copy.", "Confirmation", 2,1);

if (Mbox != 1) isOK = false;



I was looking at execDialog which is much more powerful, but complicated to use.