Add validation to custom field in Campaigns module

Question

Hi,
We're using Sugar version 7.2. We have a requirement to add a time field in the Campaigns module. For this I created a custom field using Studio called start time. Now since this was a free text field I had to add validations so only valid times were entered. I first made my changes in the Wizard by customising the WizardCampaignHeader.tpl in custom/modules/Campaigns/tpls/WizardCampaignHeader.tpl. I added my field

<tr>        <td scope="col"><span sugar='slot14'>{$MOD.LBL_START_TIME}:</span sugar='slot'></td>        <td><span sugar='slot14b'><input id='start_time' name='wiz_step1_start_time_c' title='{$MOD.LBL_START_TIME}' type="text" value="{$START_TIME_C}" ></span sugar='slot'></td>        </tr>

And after that added validation for my field

addToValidate('wizform', 'start_time', 'time', false,  document.getElementById('start_time').title);

So now it works okay. Although I haven't figured out how to add validations when I click on the edit button and then click on save. Can someone please provide some guidance?

Kind Regards,
Madhav Shenoy

Madhav Shenoy · Accepted Answer

Ok I finally managed to do it. Not sure if this is upgrade safe though. There was already an existing file custom/modules/Campaigns/metadata/editviewdefs.php. It had an entry for javascript

$viewdefs['Campaigns'] =
array (
'EditView' =>
array (
    'templateMeta' =>
    array (
      'maxColumns' => '2',
      'widths' =>
      array (
        0 =>
        array (
          'label' => '10',
          'field' => '30',
        ),
        1 =>
        array (
          'label' => '10',
          'field' => '30',
        ),
      ),
      'javascript' => '<script type="text/javascript" src="include/javascript/popup_parent_helper.js?v=lfl10z_8P5kB8KpsuPdZxg"></script>

I just added the following line

  <script type="text/javascript" src="custom/modules/Campaigns/include/javascript/Validate.js"></script>

And put my validation in the script file. Works like a charm.