Function window.alert is not supported

Question

• Project: Office Add-In
• Office-UI-Fabric-JS: 1.5.0
• Fabric Core: 5.0.1

I'm getting the error Function window.alert is not supported

The 3rd party library I'm using ("DataTables") uses the "alert" API.

Is there a way, other than manually modifying the Javascript in "DataTables", to replace the calls to "alert"

It would be nice if I could have the calls to "alert" be routed to app.showNotification() (this call is provided in App.js; a file that is normally found in the Office Add-in examples found on GitHub)

Answer 1

Overwrite window.alert with a function that will pass on the arguments to app.showNotification()

//if Office supports arrow functions
window.alert = message=>app.showNotification("Title",message);

//otherwise use a normal function expression
window.alert = function(message){
  app.showNotification("Title",message)
};

Should probably do this in the Office.initialize handler so that it happens as soon as possible:

Office.initialize = function(){
  window.alert = function(message){
    app.showNotification("Title For the Notification",message)
  };
};