Implement action confirm on Workflow action

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Hi

This is suggestion feature from my team.

When we apply a workflow to a doctype, every workflow action appears inside the Action Button (as shown below).

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The issue is that it’s easy to accidentally click on one of these actions. There’s no confirmation prompt, so if someone misclicks — for example, accidentally rejecting a document — the action is immediately executed without any chance to undo or confirm.

I found a possible solution on the Frappe forum using a client script to trigger before_workflow_action, which helps mitigate the issue.
Ref: I want to show a dialog box for confirm after each actiion by workflow

However, what if we could configure this confirmation behavior directly within the workflow itself?

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For example, when a user clicks Approve, a dialog could appear asking them to confirm the action before it’s applied.

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This is related PR: feat: Add action confirm on Workflow by TheerayutEncoder · Pull Request #33439 · frappe/frappe · GitHub

Any comment or suggestion would be appreciated.

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Thanks! This will help a lot in prevent user from click through by mistake.

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@TheerayutEncoder I’d like to suggest adding an Action Confirmation at the Workflow Transition Levels . Since confirmation might not be needed for all workflow states, it would be great if we could have the option to customize the confirmation message using a Jinja template. This feature would really improve user experience by preventing accidental actions and would make the feature more versatile.

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Thank you for your suggestion — I appreciate it and agree with your perspective about move it to Transition levels.

And I just move it in the PR.

However, I’m not quite clear on the necessity of customizing the confirmation message.

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I have encountered cases where I have to provide Business Specific Confirmation message as pop up on Action confirmation and customization I suggested if anyone wants to show records attribute in confirmation message to make it more generic feature.

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Yes, I also think it will be a good feature. But if user leave the message (jinja) blank, it should fall back to default message.