CSRListForm and PreSaveAction or PreSaveItem

Question

I've used PreSaveAction successfully in the past, but now I'm working with a CSRListForm and neither one of these will fire off. Even if I use just a simple alert message.

I know the CSRListForm causes a lot of standard things to not work. Does it invalidate PreSaveAction and PreSaveItem as well?

Thanks

Edit:

Sharpoint 2016 On Prem

I'm saving using this method:

SPClientForms.ClientFormManager.SubmitClientForm('WPQ2');

The standard Save button has disappeared so I can't use this:

$('input[value=Save]').click();

My code is based off of this:

https://code.msdn.microsoft.com/office/CSR-code-samples-11-Fully-54ebcaa6

Thank you

Answer 1

After fighting with this for a few days I decided to abandon the CSRListForm method and use the hillbilly.js method specified here:

https://github.com/mrackley/HillbillyTemplate

With this method the following all work:

Standard Save and Cancel; Attach File; PreSaveItem; PreSaveAction

Answer 2

The problem you were having is because you weren't using the standard save button. The standard save button looks kind of like this:

<input name="somereallylongname" value="Save"
    onclick="if (!PreSaveItem()) return false;if (SPClientForms.ClientFormManager.SubmitClientForm('WPQ2')) return false;//etc" 
    id="somereallylongname"
    target="_self" type="button">

Notice that the onclick event starts with if(!PreSaveItem()) return false;, and then it does if (SPClientForms.ClientFormManager.SubmitClientForm('WPQ2')) return false;. You said you're doing:

SPClientForms.ClientFormManager.SubmitClientForm('WPQ2');

to save the form, but that's only a portion of the logic, removing much of the validation. If you had done:

if (!PreSaveItem())
    return false;
if (SPClientForms.ClientFormManager.SubmitClientForm('WPQ2'))
    return false;

from your own button, validation would have worked the way you expected, including PreSaveItem. All OOB forms in 2016 are CSR forms, and they still work fine with PreSaveItem/PreSaveAction.