Creating a pop up window on button click?

Question

Hi
How would I create a pop up modal window when a user clicks on a print button within an interactive report. This window would then display a message with a confirm or cancel button. If they click on confirm the page prints out and if they click cancel it takes the user back to the report
Is this possible? if so how is this achieved?
Many Thanks

Answer 1

The confirm dialog is a native dialog in the browser. It will display a message and it has an ok and cancel button. Running it in javascript will prompt the user with the dialog, and the return value will be true or false depending on the button clicked.
You don't need any extra page whatsoever.
var r=confirm("Press a button");
if (r==true)
x="You pressed OK!";
else
x="You pressed Cancel!";
}This would prompt you with a small dialog, asking "Press a button.". Clicking Ok or Cancel will return true or false to variable r, which in this code is then tested.
You could shorten it up to
if(confirm("Do you want to print?")){
   //execute print code
};Alternatively, if you are on version 4.0 or higher you can use a dynamic action for this. Set the action to fire on the click of a button, and as a true action you can choose the confirm action, which then lets you display a text.