How can I display a popup only on fresh form load, and not on reload?

[eedoh]

Basically, what I'm trying to do is to have a popup displayed when user opens the form, and if they get a validation error or something, and form gets re-displayed, I need the popup not to show up again. Can this be done, and how.


Thanks

[Dmitry Kozlov]

Hi,

You can store last opened form (ID and ListID) in cookie and do not display popup message if the user opens the same form again. Here is the code:

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var key = "last_opened_form";
var value = _spPageContextInfo.pageListId + GetUrlKeyValue('ID');

if ($.cookie(key) != value) {
	$.cookie(key, value);
	alert('Popup message');
}

[eedoh]

This works only the first time. If you open new form, close it and open again, there's no popup, and it should appear... I managed to adjust it to my needs though. This is what I've done with it...


var key = "last_opened_form";

var value = _spPageContextInfo.pageListId + GetUrlKeyValue('ID');

var alertSpan = $( "span[role='alert']" );


if ($.cookie(key) != value && alertSpan.length === 0) {

$.cookie(key, value);

alert('The next number is ' + number); //number variable is initialized elsewhere.

}


window.onbeforeunload = handleExit;

function handleExit()

{

if(alertSpan.length === 0){

$.cookie(key, null);

}

}


Thanks for the solution.