Require captions for a photo field

This example uses the validate-record event in conjunction with the INVALID function to prevent saving a record if any photos in the photos field are missing captions.

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ON('validate-record', function (event) {
  // if there are any photos, loop through the $photos objects and test the caption property for null
  if ($photos) {
    for (var i = 0; i < $photos.length; i++) {
      // if caption is missing, alert the user and prevent the record from saving
      if ($photos[i].caption === null) {
        INVALID('All photos must have captions!');
      }
    }
  }
});

This can be expanded to look through all photo fields in your app

ON('validate-record', function (event) {
  // loop through the photo fields
  DATANAMES('PhotoField').forEach(function(dataName) {
    // get the photo field value
    var photos = VALUE(dataName);
    // if there are any photos, loop through the photo objects and test the caption property for null
    if (photos) {
      for (var i = 0; i < photos.length; i++) {
        // if caption is missing, alert the user and prevent the record from saving
        if (photos[i].caption === null) {
          INVALID('All photos must have captions!');
        }
      }
    }
  });
});

Updated 6 months ago