Delay in Save

[Rad]

Hi Alex, I’ve a simple 3 line code t save and send an email out to users but the the save doesn’t seem to work always. The request status sometimes gets set and sometimes not. I tried adding a timer for save but that does work also. Any suggestions here?

case “btnSubmit”:
setFieldValue(“txtRequestStatus”,”Submitted”);
$(“input[id$=diidIOSaveItem]:last”).click();
sendEmail(getFieldValue(“txtRequestStatus”));

[Alexander Bautz]

Hi,
You must not run this line:

$(“input[id$=diidIOSaveItem]:last”).click();

until after your custom sendMail is completed to ensure the form is not closed before your email is sent.

I don´t see any reason the txtRequestStatus field would not be set though – are you sure it is not overwritten by for example a FLOW? – do you see the value in the version log of the list item?

Alexander

[Rad]

it seemed like there was a delay in setFieldValue(“txtRequestStatus”,”Submitted”);, so added timer to excute Save after 2 sec. Have you seen this issue with delay in setting a variable?

case “btnSubmit”:
setFieldValue(“txtRequestStatus”,”Submitted”);

//$(“input[id$=diidIOSaveItem]:last”).click();

setTimeout(function() {

// alert(“here”);
$(“input[id$=diidIOSaveItem]:last”).click();

if(getFieldValue(“txtRequestStatus”) == “Submitted”){
sendEmail(getFieldValue(“txtRequestStatus”));
};
}, 2000);

break;

[Rad]

so, the order should be like below? First send email then save? I that the reason?

setFieldValue(“txtRequestStatus”,”Submitted”);
sendEmail(getFieldValue(“txtRequestStatus”));
$(“input[id$=diidIOSaveItem]:last”).click();

[Rad]

I looked into the versioning and it doesn’t show any value change for this field. Hope adding a timer would help. It seems to work so far. this is the updated code.

case “btnSubmit”:
setFieldValue(“txtRequestStatus”,”Submitted”);
sendEmail(getFieldValue(“txtRequestStatus”));

// $(“input[id$=diidIOSaveItem]:last”).click();

setTimeout(function() {

// alert(“here”);
$(“input[id$=diidIOSaveItem]:last”).click();

}, 2000); //2 second

[Alexander Bautz]

The only field types that have a delay when setting are lookup and people picker fields, but from the name of the field I assume this is a single line of text?

Alexander

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