Required Alerts when you hit the print button

Question

I'm working on a form that will be printed and fax, so there is no submit button. I wanted to know if there is a way to have the required field alerts pop up when the print button is selected?

Answer 1

No, the built-in alerts are only shown when a Submit Form action occurs, whether the form is submitting to a web server or uses the mailto scheme. What you can do is create a "Print" button on the form that uses JavaScript to do the checking and alerts the user to incomplete fields. If everything checks out, the script would allow the form to print. This is actually a better approach as you can do more complete checking and provide more useful alerts. The user could always print by using the menu item or toolbar button, but it's better than nothing.