Customizing Web Forms

Web Forms are a powerful way to add forms to your website. Web forms are powerful and scriptable and from Version 7.1+ they also include tables, paging and other utilities

Standard Web Forms

If you check on the "Is Standard" checkbox, a new folder will be created in the module of the Web Form for that web form. In this folder, you will see a .py and .js file that you can customize the web form with.

Web Form Settings

• Allow Edit: Allow each user to have one instance and edit it
• Allow Multiple: Allow users to view and edit multiple instances of the web form
• Show as Grid: Show table view of the web form values (only if "Allow Multiple" is set)
• Allow Incomplete Forms: For very long forms, you can allow the user to save without throwing validation for mandatory. The user will still see the fields as manadatory.

Client Script

Introduced in Version 11

You can also add a custom client script to the web form

API

Event Handler

Write an event handler to do actions when a field is changed.

frappe.web_form.on([fieldname], [handler]);

Get Value

Get value of a particular field

value = frappe.web_form.get_value([fieldname]);

Set Value

Set value of a particular field

frappe.web_form.set_value([fieldname], [value])

Validate

frappe.web_form.validate is called before the web_form is saved. Add custom validation by overriding the validate method. To stop the user from saving, return false;

frappe.web_form.validate = () => {
    // return false if not valid
}

Set Field Property

frappe.web_form.set_df_property([fieldname], [property], [value]);

Trigger script when form is loaded

Initialize form with customisation after it is loaded

frappe.web_form.after_load = () {
    // init script here
}

Examples

Reset value if invalid

frappe.web_form.on('amount', (field, value) => {
    if (value < 1000) {
        frappe.msgprint('Value must be more than 1000');
        field.set_value(0);
    }
});

Custom Validation

frappe.web_form.validate = () => {
    let data = frappe.web_form.get_values();
    if (data.amount < 1000) {
        frappe.msgprint('Value must be more than 1000');
        return false;
    }
});

Hide a field based on value

frappe.web_form.on('amount', (field, value) => {
    if (value < 1000) {
        frappe.web_form.set_df_property('rate', 'hidden', 1);
    }
});

Show a message on startup

frappe.web_form.after_load = () => {
    frappe.msgprint('Please fill all values carefully');
}

Breadcrumbs

You can customize the breadcrumbs in a Web Form by adding JSON object.

Example:

[{"label": "Home", "route":"/" }]

{next}