[Paul Lynch]

Thanks this all works brilliantly.

Just one more question!

Is it possible to have this work in reverse?

So updating status in a vlookup child item, will update the vlookup parent item?

Trying to maintain an identical status same in both child/parent

[Paul Lynch]

Sorry did not read the previous answer properly, no worries thanks for checking!

[Paul Lynch]

Thanks Alexander,

only just had time to try this out but I get “undefined” which replaces the date field of DFFS form.

Sorry I just wanted to clarify I it is not a text string I am converting it is date field. I want to show 20 June 2020, instead of 20/06/2020

Fieldname – DateColumn1 (Internal fieldname – DateColumn1)
Column type – Date/Time field

Tried it on a couple of dates using internal field names of two dates on my form.

I’m no programmer but in first line of the js create and set a variable dispFormDate as the value from the date field from DateColumn1 (DateColumn1 is the existing date field, not a text string created by a timedate stamp)

[Paul Lynch]

NewForm

Second tab has the vlookup. The person clicks uploads a record to child library, fills in metadata and then the vlookup table renders. That’s all good.

They then click third tab, which has a Js button, which should submit form and run the function but nothing happens (hence I checked console).

Actually want to run two functions, send an email AND update the status of the child form, but left out email function until I get this to work.

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[Paul Lynch]

Sorry might have confused things with the script and I also left out some code.

Just a standard date/time field in SP – which I would like to show in a “friendly” way.. e.g.15 June 2020 rather than 15/06/20 which is how it shows in the SP form by default.

[Paul Lynch]

Trying to implement this fix and struggling.

Parent List
Parent List Name (List) – TRLRPTS
vLookup fieldname – vLookup_Children
Internal fieldname – Status

Child List
Child List Name (Document Library) – TrialReports
Child list GUID – {ADA5EC4A-7D6D-4AFC-9AFA-21F47C2E1480}
Internal fieldname – status

Both above fields are single choice columns..

Here is my code:

function callMeFromChangeRule(){
    var arrOfIDs = [];
    jQuery.each(spjs.vLookup.dataObj.vLookup_Children[spjs.dffs.data.thisItemID].items,function(id,vLookupListItem){
    	arrOfIDs.push(id);
    });
    spjs.utility.updateItem({
        "listName":"{ADA5EC4A-7D6D-4AFC-9AFA-21F47C2E1480}",
        "id":arrOfIDs,
        "data":{
            "status":getFieldValue("Status"),
        }
    });
}

I’ve attached the console error..

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[Paul Lynch]

Thanks this worked great and Js can populate the time/date stamps on event.

Final question on time and date formatting!

What is the best way to show a “friendly” time/date format in the form? I have the date/column fields set to “friendly” but I think that only shows this in the list itself.

At moment I am using this script;

$("span.NAMEOFSPAN").html(qRes["SP_DATE_COLUMN_IN_LIST"].split(";#")[1]);

Then showing it in HTML field

<h4><strong>Date Issue Occurred:  </strong><span class="NAMEOFSPAN" /></h4>

I then have to use rules to hide the SP_DATE_COLUMN_IN_LIST in the form, and replace with the HTML date field.

Wondering if there is a more efficient way?

[Paul Lynch]

Works perfectly thanks Alexander will send some beers your way!

[Paul Lynch]

Sorry for some reason I forgot the ribbon is at the top of the page! But a scroll bar would be nice, if we could fix the size of the box, as there might be fields under neath the multi line text field.

[Paul Lynch]

Sorry one more question on this.

The first two options seem to be setting a fixed time/date

Is it possible to use the {timestamp} keyword in the custom js like this?

setFieldValue("DateColumn1", [{timestamp[MM/dd/yyyy]},{timestamp[HH]},{timestamp[mm]}]);

[Paul Lynch]

Version information
DFFS Loader: v2
DFFS frontend: 4.4.5.0 – June 1, 2020
DFFS frontend CSS: 4.60 /
Autocomplete: 1.6.48 – May 10, 2020
Cascading dropdowns: 3.7.40 – June 1, 2020
jQuery: 1.12.4
Lookup: 1.1.20 – March 10, 2020
Resource management: 2.4.5 – August 29, 2019
SPJS-Utility: 1.347 – June 1, 2020
vLookup: 2.2.155 – June 1, 2020

although I think I did replace this file SPJS-utility_v1.348.zip from a recommendation in another post about rules

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[Paul Lynch]

I’m on the latest production version

But I still cannot see people picker and also multi-choice fields when I set them to read only in Chrome and IE, but it is working in Firefox!

[Paul Lynch]

Thanks Alexander, this works great and populates the SP date and time field.

[Paul Lynch]

I’ve tried so many but given up, left it on this one for now which populates the correct date (no idea which timezone) but puts time as midnight 00:00

{timestamp[MM/dd/yyyy HH:mm:ss]}

[Paul Lynch]

Just to let you know that this is now populating the date, just not the time!

{timestamp[MM/dd/yyyy HH:mm]}

will keep trying different time permutations!

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