Show confirmation dialog on record save/update

[Tim D Scott]

Hi,

Apologies if this is a simple question, but I'm fairly new to ServiceNow UI development.

I have a table in my scoped application, that looks like this:

When the user selects save or clicks one of the update buttons I need to display a message, along with an OK / Cancel button.

If they click OK, the record is saved/updated as normal, if they Cancel the record is not saved/updated.

What's the easiest way to achieve this?

Thanks,

Tim.

[Filipe Cruz · Accepted solution]

Hello Tim,

You can create an onSubmit Client script with the following code:

function onSubmit() {
    var answer = confirm("Do you want to save the record? Press OK to save, Cancel to abort!");
	if (!answer) 
          return false;	
}

Please mark my answer as correct and helpful if it is relevant for you!

Thanks,

Filipe Cruz

[Tim D Scott]

Thanks Filipe!

I would like to display different text for some of the buttons. Am I able to find out which operation/button has been clicked within the onSubmit() function?

[Filipe Cruz]

Hello Tim,

The "Ok" and "Cancel" cannot be changed when using the "confirm" statement.

If you want to have something different there, you need to build up a UI page with custom buttons, each with a different label.

Please mark my answer as correct and helpful if it is relevant for you!

Thanks,

Filipe Cruz

[Tim D Scott]

Hi Filipe,

Sorry, I didn't word that very well! 

I have several buttons on the form, all of which fire the onSubmit() event, can I tell which one has been clicked and display a different confirm message for some of them?

Thanks (again!)

Tim.