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Doc Number:  1087237

Problem
Using Domino Designer 5.x, you want to use JavaScript to validate a form's input values before allowing a document to be submitted and you would like to design this form so that it works the same way in a Notes client as it does from a web browser.  But when you select a Button that saves and closes the window from a Notes client you find that the document is closed regardless of whether input validation failed or not.

Content
Using Domino Designer 5.x, the Submit button on the form can be coded as follows:

@If(@Command([FileSave]); @Command([FileCloseWindow]); "" )

The JS Header property of the form has the following code:

function validate() {
        if (document.forms[0].Test.value == "") {
                alert("Must enter value for Test");
                return false;
        }
}

The onSubmit event of the form should be coded as follows:

return validate()

When the form's Submit button is selected, the browser displays a JavaScript Alert and the document will NOT be submitted to the server.

To provide this functionality on a Domino 4.6.x server, see document number  172406, "Global Input Validation with JavaScript in a Web Browser."