Restrict submission of catalog item if the url in the help text is not clicked

[RanjanRP]

Is there a way to prevent submitting a catalog item unless the user clicks a URL in the help text?

[Ankur Bawiskar · Accepted solution]

@RanjanRP 

You can have this approach

1) create a hidden checkbox type variable and place it at the end of catalog form and hide it using UI policy

2) use variable of type Custom and create a widget to show that URL, in HTML of that anchor tag add onclick even and then update that hidden checkbox as true once link is clicked.

3) use onSubmit catalog client script and see if checkbox is true, if yes then allow submission, if not then stop submission

This is the widget syntax to set the variable from widget client controller

api.controller = function($scope) {

$scope.page.g_form.setValue('hiddenVariable', true);


});

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[SANDEEP28]

@RanjanRP Its not possible to check whether user clicked on the URL in help text. However you can have one Boolean filed (checkBox)  and label it as "I went through the content present in URL". You can make this field as mandatory or you can do validation in onSubmit client script.

This way you can get acknowledgement from user.

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[SANDEEP28]

@RanjanRP Did you try what I suggested.

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[J Siva]

Hi @RanjanRP 
It's not possible to detect whether a user has clicked a URL.
As a workaround, you can add a mandatory checkbox and ask the user to check it only after they have clicked and read the content from the URL.

Regards,
Siva

[GlideFather]

@RanjanRP 
What about making the help text always expanded above a checkbox and without the checkbox marking true it cannot be continued.

How does that sound?