Forcing the user to save before submit.

[Former Community Member]

Hi,

I need to force the user to save the form before submit.

How can I do that ? Please help.

[Niall_O_Donovan]

Hi,

You can use the dirty flag. If your users have Acrobat/Reader 9.1 or above then you could also use the cancelAction method (however this is a bit flaky in I think version 10.0).

For example, in the button's preSubmit event:

if (event.target.dirty == true) {
     xfa.event.cancelAction = true;
}

You would also want to include a beep and/or messageBox warning to the user.

Hope that helps,

Niall

[Former Community Member]

Hi,

Thanks for the reply.

Its working fine.I want to do this before closing the form also.How can I do that?

Raghu.

[Niall_O_Donovan]

Hi,

That is tricky. You could try the docClose event, but I am fairly sure that this event will fire too late for your purposes.

Niall