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Posted: **2021-06-17 23:23**

Is it possible to have an alert pop up when someone clicks the Save as Copy button? I would like to have them accept the alert dialog before the duplication occurs.

Thank you...

Posted: **2021-06-20 07:43**

Hi,

what about this javascript code, which shows a browser-built-in confirmation prompt before copying the record.

Code

(1) For re-usability, the following javascript-function should be put in a common, shared file, for example in hooks/header-extras.php.

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// file: hooks/header-extras.php
<script>
  function confirmCopy(prompt = "Are your sure?") {
    let tn = AppGini.currentTableName();
    let pk = jQuery(`input[name="SelectedID"]`).val();
    let btn = jQuery("#insert").attr("data-prompt", prompt);
    let ico = btn.find("i.glyphicon").clone();
    if (tn && btn.length && pk) btn.attr("onclick", `return ${tn}_validateData() && confirm(this.getAttribute('data-prompt'))`).text(btn.text() + "...").prepend(ico);
  }
</script>

(2) Put the following line into the javascript-hooks-file for your table's detail view:

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// file: hooks/TABLENAME-dv.js
confirmCopy("Do you really want to insert a copy?");

That's it. You can customize the prompt text in the first parameter.

Result

Note the "..." text which has been appended to the button-text. This is a widely used method for indicating to the user that there is a prompt before execution.

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Prompt

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The record will be inserted (as copy) only if you click OK.

The code keeps the icon, appends "...", keeps form-validation and only applies to "copy" action (for existing records), not to "insert" action (for new records).

Posted: **2021-08-13 05:03**

Thanks Jan. I was looking for this for a while and found it here.

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