Hello,
I want to prevent duplicate entries rather than clean them up with a workflow afterwards. SharePoint only allows for this on one field per row. I need to check at least two columns per row to determine if an entry is unique. I've been searching Nintex Community and Google and came across a script that uses ajax to check field values in a list. I've adjusted the script to suit my list and tested it using a default SharePoint form. It worked very nicely. However, when I tested this same script (with some adjustments to selectors to suit the class names I added in the Nintex form), the script notifies the user that their entry is a duplicate but then still saves the item to the list. Is there something significantly different about the "Submit" process with Nintex forms that would cause this? When the script encounters a duplicate in the default SharePoint form, the "Save" button doesn't proceed with saving the item.
This is what my script looks like:
// adding javascript to button onclick event to call checkExist() function, saves existing onclick event to variable
var oc = $('input[value="Submit"]').attr('onclick');
$('input[value="Submit"]').attr('onclick','if (checkExist()){alert("Employee already exists!");} else {'+ oc +'}');
//variable to hold Ajax result
var dataResults;
//Ajax to populate data from list
$.ajax({
url: "https://nameofsite/_api/web/lists/getbytitle('New%20Employee%20Request')/items?$select=n9xv,Title",
type: "GET",
async: false,
headers: { "Accept": "application/json;odata=verbose" },
success: function(data) {
dataResults = data.d;
}
});
function checkExist(){
var empName = $('.employee-name-control').val();
var title = $('.position-title-control').val();
var c = null;
// get list items, n9xv is position title, title is employee name
$.each(dataResults, function(i, item){
$.each(item, function(i, dt){
if (dt.Title == empName && dt.n9xv == title){
c = true;
return false;
}
});
});
return c;
}; Is there something I'm missing? Any help is appreciated! Thank you.
