Hyperlink Functionality on AC and Lookup

[Wilson]

Hi Alexander,
I replaced many of the native SP lookup fields with SPJS-AC and SPJS-Lookup controls for various reasons, However I would like to restore the “hyperlink” functionality that you lose on the list view.
For example…
1) “List A” has an SPJS-AC column to lookup CustomerName from CustomerAccount list
2) I also set the CustomerAccountID (SPID Field from CustomerAccount list) using the “Set Fields” function of SPJS-AC (So i have the item id of the item I would to open)
3) From “List A” list view, I would like to be able to Click on CustomerName and open a Modal popup Display form for that customer (SP.UI.ModalDialog.showModalDialog(options)), just as you would get if you use native SP Lookup column.

Any thoughts?
Thanks,
Wilson

[Alexander Bautz]

Hi,
The best I can think of is that you write the URL to a Hyperlink field. You can do it like this in the Custom JS by specifying a parseFunction in your spjs.ac.textField function call:

spjs.ac.textField({
    "applyTo":"projectField",
    "helpText":"Start typing to search...",
    ...
    ...
    ...
    "setFields":[{
     "fromFIN":["ID","Title"],
     "joinBy":"",
     "toFIN":"MyHyperlinkField",
     "parseFunction":"writeHyperlink",
     "skipIfEmpty":false
    }]
});

function writeHyperlink(a){
    return [_spPageContextInfo.webAbsoluteUrl + "/Lists/ProjectList/DispForm.aspx?ID=" + a[0], a[1]];
}

Change the list name to match yours in the URL.

Unfortunately you cannot have it open in a new window / tab, and not in a dialog box either because the built in Hyperlink field doesn’t support that.

Alexander

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