• Article Type: General
• Product: Aleph
• Product Version: 20

Desired Outcome Goal:
How to make a field mandatory in an OPAC form?

Procedure:
To make a field mandatory in an OPAC form follow these steps (example is for form “feedback”):

1. Change in $alephe_root/www_f_lng/feedback the form tag so that you have in line onsubmit the following:
onsubmit='return checkMail();'

2. Add the following Java Script to head of the above file:

<script language="javascript">
function checkMail() {
if (document.form1.TARGET.value == '') {
alert('E-Mail is missing');
return(false);
}
else document.form1.submit();
}
</script>

Explanation:
*checkMail is a free chosen name for the script
* form1 is the name of the form
* TARGET is the name of the field for the mail address
* For ALERT you can choose any warning text

Category: Web OPAC (500)

• Article last edited: 10/8/2013