SugarCRM: Adding Javascript validation on form submit

Assume your module name as ‘ABC_XXX’.

Create the file or edit the existing file
/custom/modules/ABC_XXX/metadata/editviewdefs.php
and include the code below

$module_name = 'ABC_XXX';
$viewdefs [$module_name] =
array (
  'EditView' =>
  array (
    'templateMeta' =>
    array (
      'form' =>
      array(
         'buttons' =>
        array (
         0 =>
          array(
           'customCode' =>
            '<input title="Save [Alt+S]" accessKey="S" onclick="this.form.action.value=\'Save\'; return check_custom_data();" type="submit" name="button" value="'.$GLOBALS['app_strings']['LBL_SAVE_BUTTON_LABEL'].'">',
          ),
         1 =>
          array(
           'customCode' =>
            '<input title="Cancel [Alt+X]" accessKey="X" onclick="this.form.action.value=\'index\'; this.form.module.value=\''.$module_name.'\'; this.form.record.value=\'\';" type="submit" name="button" value="'.$GLOBALS['app_strings']['LBL_CANCEL_BUTTON_LABEL'].'">'
          )
        )
      ),
      'includes'=> array(
  array('file'=>'custom/modules/ABC_XXX/customJavascript.js'),
      ),
    ),
);

Create a javascript file at
custom/modules/ABC_XXX/ named customJavascript.js
and include the code below

function check_custom_data()
{
    alert('here');
    if (condition) {
        return false;
    }
    return check_form('EditView');
}

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