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Dave Woestenborghs 3504 posts 12135 karma points MVP 9x admin c-trib

Jan 14, 2015 @ 08:59

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Check if item is dirty in property editor

Does anybody know how to check for unsaved changes in a content item from a property editor? I need to disable some functionality when there are unsaved changes.

Dave

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Sören Deger 733 posts 2844 karma points c-trib

Jan 14, 2015 @ 10:16
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Hi Dave,

with this you can set the state manually in your controller to saved:
```
$scope.formName.$dirty = false;
```
It's not exact this what you need, but perhaps this can help you.

Best
Sören
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Dave Woestenborghs 3504 posts 12135 karma points MVP 9x admin c-trib

Jan 14, 2015 @ 10:44

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Hi Sören,

I have a property editor with a button in it. Button should be disabled if there are unsaved changes in other properties in the content item.

So i need to know if the item is dirty.

Dave

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Sören Deger 733 posts 2844 karma points c-trib

Jan 14, 2015 @ 10:52
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Hi Dave,

I have not tested it yet, but it should work something like this:
```
<button ng-show='$dirty==false' />
```
or
```
<button ng-show='formName.$dirty==false' />
```
Sören
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Dave Woestenborghs 3504 posts 12135 karma points MVP 9x admin c-trib

Jan 15, 2015 @ 08:30

I just found out how to do it. I added this code to my button click handler

// get the content item form
var contentForm = angular.element('form[name=contentForm]').scope().contentForm;

// if we have a dirty property show a notification and cancel sending 
if (contentForm.$dirty) {
notificationsService.error('You have unsaved changes');
return false;
}

Dave

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Sören Deger 733 posts 2844 karma points c-trib

Jan 15, 2015 @ 19:09

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Hi Dave,

great to hear this! And thank you for sharing your code :-)

Sören

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Bjarne Fyrstenborg 1284 posts 4038 karma points MVP 8x c-trib

Mar 10, 2015 @ 21:59
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Just a comment in relation to this. If you need to set $dirty property to true, you can also use $setDirty()
https://docs.angularjs.org/api/ng/type/form.FormController#$setDirty

So you can use:
```
var contentForm = angular.element('form[name=contentForm]').scope().contentForm;
contentForm.$dirty = true;
```
or
```
var contentForm = angular.element('form[name=contentForm]').scope().contentForm;
contentForm.$setDirty();
```
but this didn't change to dirty state for <ng-form name="propertyForm"> which still had class="ng-pristine ng-valid"

so I had a look at how it is done in the core: https://github.com/umbraco/Umbraco-CMS/blob/2834ccdc2b057619178b3df49aa05ae938faca15/src/Umbraco.Web.UI.Client/src/views/propertyeditors/rte/rte.controller.js

and came up with this:
```
angular.module("umbraco").controller("Our.SwitcherController", function ($scope, $timeout, angularHelper) {

    var alreadyDirty = false;
    ...

    if (!alreadyDirty) {
        var currForm = angularHelper.getCurrentForm($scope);
        currForm.$setDirty();
        alreadyDirty = true;
    }

});
```
/Bjarne
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Thomas 319 posts 606 karma points c-trib

Oct 01, 2020 @ 08:32

Umbraco 8.7.0

I have this where I reuse a Rich text editor..

<ng-form id="commentform" name="commentForm">
                <umb-property-editor model="rte"></umb-property-editor>
            </ng-form>

This return null ...

var currForm = angularHelper.getCurrentForm($scope);

The same with this:

var contentForm = angular.element('form[name=commentForm]').scope().contentForm;

Can you see what i'm doing wrong..

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