how to add a proceed dialog before executing an action

[tom wible]

i have several actions defined in /actions and actions.ini that work perfectly, but as the title says i would like to add a simple

         'onclick' => "return confirm('Are you sure you want to proceed?');"

to the action link...

chatgpt suggests:

        'Custom Action Button in template'

or

         'In your templates/ or delegate class, you can hook into rendering and inject the onclick. '

but i'm not sure exactly where these are...can i buy a clue?-}

[Patrick Reinhard]

Something like the following in your actions.ini should work:

[Stampa_Informative_Interessato_pdf]
url_condition="$record"
onclick="return confirm('QUESTA FUNZIONE E\' SPERIMENTALE! Prima di utilizzarla per favore leggete le note al riguardo nelle \'News\'.');"
url="{$this->url('-action=StampaInformativaInteressato')}&KAzienda={$record->val('KAzienda')}&format=pdf"
label=" pdf"
description="Genera Informativa unificata di tutti i Trattamenti di questo Interessato in formato pdf"
category=informativainc
order=21

Unfortunately I could not yet figure out how to split the message on two or more lines, i.e. how to insert a line feed in the message of the js confirm box, as '\n' does not work, at least in my configuration.

HTH

[tom wible]

that woprked! thanx-)

[tom wible]

worked-}

and no, confirm dialogs can't have linebreaks-\

On Tuesday, August 5, 2025 at 12:58:54 PM UTC-4 pat...@gmail.com wrote:

[John R Blakely]

Just curious, have you tried inserting an HTML break ("<br>") or paragraph ("<p>") element embedded in the text?

[tom wible]

yes...javascript dialogs simply pass any html literally

[tom wible]

onclick isn't mentioned in http://xataface.com/wiki/actions.ini_file#toc2

[Patrick Reinhard]

Onclick is referenced under javascript actions at https://shannah.github.io/xataface-manual/#javascript-action

[tom wible]

also in https://shannah.github.io/xataface-manual/#actionsini-directives 

the github manual is more up-to-date than the wiki