ENFOLD Javascript alert overridden by theme

Hi ,

I ran into a slight issue with the latest version of Enfold 4.5.4

I have custom javascript code which runs only in admin – this alerts the client on creating a custom-post-type new post, that they need to select a Category before publishing.

Previously a standard javascript alert would handle this function.
alert(‘Please select a Category.’);

    if ($body.hasClass ('post-type-custom') && $body.hasClass ('post-new-php') || $body.hasClass ('post-type-custom') && $body.hasClass ('post-php')) {
        $('#post').on('submit', function (e) {
            if ($('#custom-catchecklist').find('input:checked').length < 1) {
                alert('Please select a Category.');
                return false;
            }
            return true;
        });
    }

For some reason all JS alerts stopped working in ENFOLD 4.5.4

I had my developers look into the issue. and we found that
enfold/framework/js/avia_recaptcha.js
LINE 1
var alert = [];
Converts all JS alerts to an array.

This is overriding default javascript functionality.

The only solution I could find was to replace
alert('Please select a Category.');
with
$('body').avia_alert({the_class:'error', show:6500 , text:'Please select a Category.'});

But HEY! I shouldn’t need to do this right!