When one is in a flow, there are times where one would like to simply validate the form data without actually completing the assignment.

Save as Draft button, by default, will only save the form data without validation.

Complete button, by default, will validate the form data and complete the assignment.

Save As Draft with Validation button, which is part of the article here, will validate and save the form data but not completing the assignment.

  1. To create a new button, open the form in the form builder.
  2. Create a new section at the bottom of the form.
  3. Edit the section's load binder, set it to Bean Shell Form Binder.

  4. In the Bean Shell Form Binder, add in the following code.

    import org.joget.apps.form.lib.SubmitButton;
import org.joget.apps.form.lib.CustomHTML;
import org.joget.apps.form.model.Column;
import org.joget.apps.form.model.Element;
import org.joget.apps.form.model.FormAction;
import org.joget.apps.form.model.FormData;
import org.joget.apps.form.model.Section;
import org.joget.apps.form.service.FormUtil;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Collection;

Collection formActions = new ArrayList();
String saveButtonLabel = "Save As Draft with Validation";
Element saveButton = new SubmitButton();
saveButton.setProperty(FormUtil.PROPERTY_ID, "customSaveAsDraft");
saveButton.setProperty("label", saveButtonLabel);
formActions.add(saveButton);


Section section = element;
ArrayList columns = (ArrayList) section.getChildren();


Column column = columns.get(0);
column.setProperty("horizontal", "true");
column.setChildren(formActions);


//add a custom html to fix the layout issue
Element html = new CustomHTML();
String script = "<script>$(document).ready(function(){";
script += "$(\"#"+section.getPropertyString("id")+"\").find(\".form-cell\").prependTo(\"#section-actions .form-column\");";
script += "$(\"#"+section.getPropertyString("id")+"\").remove();";
script += "});</script>";
html.setProperty("id", "button_layout_fixes");
html.setProperty("label", "");
html.setProperty("value", script);
formActions.add(html);


return null;