How Ask Uer for Confimraiton of Responses On Data Entry Form

[mmignot]

Hello

I have a form with 35 questions on it. All of the questions are optional, but if the user skipped some questions I'd like to be able to display a message (possibly on a pop-up screen or message box) that lets the user know which questions were skipped and to confirm that the skipped questions were intentional. I'm new to coldfusion/javascript and am not sure how to accomplish this. Any help would be greatly appreciated!!!

Many thanks,
Mark M.

 

[feherke]

Hi

Well, given the insignificant amount of details :
[ul]
[li]set a string to empty[/li]
[li]iterate over the controls[ul]
[li]if a control is empty[ul]
[li]append its description to the string[/li]
[/ul][/li][/ul][/li]
[li]if the string is not empty[ul]
[li]display the string in a [tt]confirm()[/tt][/li]
[li]if the visitor not confirms[ul]
[li]stop the submit[/li]
[/ul][/li][/ul][/li]
[/ul]
If this is not enough, give us some details about your [tt]form[/tt] and the controls. The best would be to post an URL to a publicly available version of the page.

Feherke.

http://rootshell.be/~feherke/

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

While this is certainly possible with JavaScript, I'd ask in the ColdFusion forum as a first port of call for several reasons:

- With server-side validation, those with JS disabled will still see error messages,

- You may well find that there's a really easy way to perform validation and have the error messages, etc, handled for you, much like the form binding you can get with Java / Grails / etc.

If it turns out there is no mechanism for auto-wiring form elements & errors in CFM, then I'd still recommend coding a server-side solution (either as well as, or instead of, a JS one).

Hope this helps,
Dan



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