Obtaining value of vLookup

[Anne Maki]

Hello,

In the new Item form of a list I am working with, I am using vLookup to display a single line of text-type value from another list. What I’d like to do is capture that value that is returned and do some string manipulations to display a different value to the user in the same form. I tried to use the following to capture the vLookup value but am getting “undefined”.

var str = getFieldValue(‘vLookupIntFieldName’);
alert(str);

I also tried the following but I get undefined as well:

var str = spjs.vLookup.dataObj[“vLookup11”][getFieldValue(“_vLookupID”)];
alert(str);

What am I missing?

Thanks,
Anne

[Alexander Bautz]

Hi,
I think the best option is to read the value directly from the HTML like this:

function vlookupChildAddedCallback() {
    switch (spjs.vLookup.data.refreshThisField) {
        case "vLookupTasks":
            var str = jQuery(".vLookupTasks_Status:first").text();
            console.log(str);
            break;
    }
}

In this example my vLookup column is named “vLookupTasks” and the field from the child item I want to ready is “Status” – change the snippet to match your field names.

Alexander

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