xfa.event.cancelAction cancels all subsequent actions

[Paul_Harris]

I have created an expenses form which has a number of mandatory and optional fields.   To ensure no expenses are submitted with a value of 0, I have added a check which sets xfa.event.cancelAction = 1 on the presubmit event of my email submit button.  This works, but the problem is that it seems to cancel all subsequent actions too.  I have tried adding xfa.event.cancelAction = 0; in the postsubmit event, but this does not work.

Does anyone have any ideas?

Thanks, Paul

[whyisthisme]

Unfortunately this is an old problem. See previous discussions: http://forums.adobe.com/message/3852614#3852614#3852614

[Paul_Harris]

Many thanks - I was aware of that thread, which also said that it was fixed in 10.1 - which I do not think it has as I am using 11.  In any case I was hopingthat someone had come up with a workaround!

Paul

[Former Community Member]

Hi Paul,

Put an extra visible button which will be your submit button.

This "extra" button will do validations and all pre-submission checks.

Once all checks have passed, then execute a "hidden" email submit button.

Code Example:

var formPassedValidations = false;

<do all your validations here - eg: check if values are not zero>

if (formPassedValidations == true)

     btnHiddenEmailSubmit.execEvent("click");

else

     <show validation err message>

hope this is what you are looking for... have fun!

Regards,

Luigi D'Amico

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