Adding a new item with a custom button

[Penny Kingston]

Hi Alex, I am using a custom button to add a new item (eventually adding multiple items with the same data). I am defining the fields that I would like to transfer to the new item(s). However, there is one field that causes the “spjs.utility.addItem” function to fail. It is a lookup field. There are two other lookup fields that transfer with no issues. I am stumped. Any thoughts? My code is below.
The field that fails is “NewColumn1”. SkillID and LookupEffort are also lookup fields but work fine. Thanks!

function copy(){spjs.dffs.data.requiredFields.push("Title");
									 
		var ok = spjs.dffs.check_Mandatory(["Title"]),
		data = {}, 
		newItem, 
		d = getFieldValue("Start").split("/"),
		f = getFieldValue("End").split("/"), 
	        g = getFieldValue("Requested").split("/");	
		
		if(ok){						
		data.Start=d[2]+"-"+d[0]+"-"+d[1];
		data.End=f[2]+"-"+f[0]+"-"+f[1];
                data.Requested=g[2]+"-"+g[0]+"-"+g[1];
		data.Title=getFieldValue("Title");
		data.Lead=getFieldValue("Lead");
                data.LookupEffort=getFieldValue("LookupEffort");
                data.SkillID=getFieldValue("SkillID");                      
                data.NewColumn1 = getFieldValue("NewColumn1");
             
 newItem = spjs.utility.addItem{"listName":_spPageContextInfo.pageListId,"data":data});
}}

[Alexander Bautz]

Hi,
I guess the NewColumn1 is a multi select? – in any case, you should use something like this to get the lookup value in the proper format for adding new items with code:

function getLookupValue(fin){
	var b = [], s
	if($("#dffs_"+fin).find("select").length === 1){
		s = $("#dffs_"+fin).find("select").find("option:selected");
		if(s.val() !== "0"){
			b.push(s.val()+";#"+s.text());
		}		
	}else{
		$("#dffs_"+fin).find("select:last").find("option").each(function(i,o){
			b.push($(o).val()+";#"+$(o).text());
		});
	}	
	return b.join(";#");
}

Use this function like this:

data.NewColumn1 = getLookupValue("NewColumn1");

Alexander

[Penny Kingston]

That worked perfectly! I am not sure why the other lookup fields appeared to work originally but just to be safe I used this function on all lookup fields.
Thanks! Penny

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