Hi all, as you know ,form has 4 form-level event rules : load, save, sumbit

if someone can give me some advice on the function i want.
that will be appreciated very much.

1. You can do this with JavaScript but remember that this won't be compatible with Mobile Enabled / Tempo forms.

2. In scenarios where there are tabs, if you are on one tab and you hit submit the form will not submit if the validation fails but the message is displayed under the field in the corresponding tab, you will not know what made the validation fail until you go to that specific tab and see the message.

This approach can be achieved with JQuery. First retrieve all the elements with the class "errorMessage", iterate over this array and if the error message is not empty and is being currently displayed add it to the alert:

function retrieveValidationErrorMessages(){
var errorMessages = $(".errorMessage");
var validationErrors = "";
for (var i=0; i< errorMessages.length; i++){
validationErrors += errorMessages[i].innerHTML != "" && errorMessages[i].style.display != 'none' ? errorMessages[i].innerHTML + "<br/>" : "";
}
if (validationErrors != ""){
asi.alert(validationErrors);
}
}

This function should be called as part of the failedValidation event of the form.

I am attaching an example application showing this approach forum.appian.com/.../22907 The model is called Tab Validation under Process Models - Forum. The JS is called retrieveValidationErrors under Default
Community > Temporary Documents Knowledge Center > Temporary Documents > JS Libraries.
In the example if you don't type a value in the fields and try to submit the form it will display a popup indicating what field failed.

3. Here's another version this one gives a single message at a time until the form is valid and has some formatting so as not to overwhelm the user:

function showErrors(){
errorList = $('p.errorMessage');
for(i=0;i<errorList.length;i++){
if(errorList[i].style.display!='none'){
re = new RegExp('.*'+errorList[i].parentNode.parentNode.namespace);
asi.alert('<table><tr><td><font color = red><b>There is an Error submitting this form!</b></font></td></tr><tr><td>'+
errorList[i].parentNode.parentNode.id.replace(re,'')+': '+
errorList[i].innerHTML+'</td></tr></table>');
break;
}
}

As you mentioned this will only work if there's NO CONFIRMATION MESSAGE.

If there's a confirmation message you could try what somebody else suggested in a different thread which is using jquery to attach a method directly to the submit button by attaching the following code the "onload" event of the form.

$('.submitButton').click(
function showErrors(){
debugger;
errorList = $('p.errorMessage');
for(i=0;i<errorList.length;i++){
if(errorList[i].style.display!='none'){
re = new RegExp('.*'+errorList[i].parentNode.parentNode.namespace);
asi.alert('<table><tr><td><font color = red><b>There is an Error submitting this form!</b></font></td></tr><tr><td>'+
errorList[i].parentNode.parentNode.id.replace(re,'')+': '+
errorList[i].innerHTML+'</td></tr></table>');
break;
}
}
})

wow, thank you very much. this issue block me a long time.

Hi eduardo, there is another problem.
i used following code.
$('.submitButton').click(
function showErrors(){
debugger;
errorList = $('p.errorMessage');
for(i=0;i<errorList.length;i++){
if(errorList[i].style.display!='none'){
re = new RegExp('.*'+errorList[i].parentNode.parentNode.namespace);
asi.alert('<table><tr><td><font color = red><b>There is an Error submitting this form!</b></font></td></tr><tr><td>'+
errorList[i].parentNode.parentNode.id.replace(re,'')+': '+
errorList[i].innerHTML+'</td></tr></table>');
break;
}
}
})

If there's a confirmation message , it does not work either.
it will block the confirmation message and the fomr cannot be submited although there is no error message.

also as you know , sometimes errorMessage won't gone until we submit the form.at that time,although form is valid, there will be still a alert msg.

it's really weird that the form cannot be submitted when the confirmation message is blocked

hi eduardo,are you still there?