Many years ago I wrote an article titled Making Required Fields More Visible for SalesLogix 7.2 Web where I outlined how to display a message to the user when required fields are missing. Things have changed in CRM since then. In version 7.2, controls used ASP.NET validation with RequiredFieldValidators so you could accomplish showing a message about the missing required fields by using an ASP.NET ValidationSummary control. That is no longer the case since all of the validation is done using the Sage.Utility.Validate and Sage.Services.ClientBindingManagerService in tandem with the validation built into the control dijit/widgets themselves.
If you want to display a message to users when required fields are missing, you can simply use dojo/aspect to trigger your code after the onWorkSpaceSave in Sage.Utility.Validate.
require(['dojo/aspect', 'dojo/ready', 'Sage/Utility/Validate'], function (aspect, ready) {
ready(function() {
aspect.after(Sage.Utility.Validate, 'onWorkSpaceSave', function() {
if (!this._isValid) {
Sage.UI.Dialogs.alert('There are missing required fields', 'Required Fields Missing');
}
});
});
});
You can add that code to the base.master or easily drop it in using our Custom Loader Module. Now, anytime the user clicks a save button on any form, they will also see the message/alert. Like this:
I’m not a huge fan of unnecessary alerts in web apps, so I would suggest using something more like toastr to display an out of the way notification that goes away on it’s own after a few seconds.
