topic Re: How to add onsubmit type functionality to forms? in Alfresco Archive

How to add onsubmit type functionality to forms?

fiferyan — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 16:40:08 GMT

I'm scratching my head a bit here on the best way to add onsubmit-type handling to forms in Share. I have a custom control that is a WYSIWYG editor and I'd like to copy the contents of the editor out to the standard content form field textarea on the inline-edit page before running through the norm

Re: How to add onsubmit type functionality to forms?

gavinc — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 10:12:49 GMT

I think there is another better way you can try, the forms runtime has a function that allows you to get called back just before submission, it gets called after validation has completed however, so it may not work for you.

The function I mentioned is called "doBeforeFormSubmit", there are a few examples of it being used throughout Share just search for it's use across the JS files.

Hope that helps!

Re: How to add onsubmit type functionality to forms?

fiferyan — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 14:04:11 GMT

Thanks Gavin. I'll try this as it might be good enough. I'll let you know how it goes.

Re: How to add onsubmit type functionality to forms?

fiferyan — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 18:33:00 GMT

This worked but was slightly difficult to figure out because I was retrieving the Form object instead of having it after I created it. This means that I had to use the ComponentManager to find the form.

For future reference in case somebody else comes across this same problem:


// Add an onsubmit to the form
var editForm = Alfresco.util.ComponentManager.find({id: 'the-id-I-already-had'})[0];
editForm.formsRuntime.doBeforeFormSubmit =
{
   fn: function(form, obj)
   {
      // Get the string document from the editor
      var xml = ditaStorm.getXml();

      // Get the string document from the editor
      var textarea = document.getElementById('my-textarea-id');
      textarea.value = xml;
   },
   scope: this
};
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Re: How to add onsubmit type functionality to forms?

gavinc — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 14:42:55 GMT

Glad you sorted it out, yes, I have no doubt that that approach will be useful for others.

Re: How to add onsubmit type functionality to forms?

stevegreenbaum — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 17:36:46 GMT

Here is a jira enhancement request to incorporate this functionality into the forms api. Please vote for this enhancement: https://issues.alfresco.com/jira/browse/ALF-6052