[Jonathan Stamper]

Oh, the order to which the AC is initiated to when the values are populated would cause that error I’m getting. Ok, I’ll check that out. Many thanks!

[Jonathan Stamper]

Oops, that’s supposed to be a lower case v for the val variable.

[Jonathan Stamper]

I had a chance to try and invoke and I’m getting a “TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading ‘items’). I’m trying to load in 2 AC fields (one is a multi-field). The error occurs right after executing the spjs.ac.setFieldValue section below:

if(GetUrlKeyValue("CreateCopy") === "1"){
    var str = sessionStorage.getItem("SaveAndCreateNewData"), data;
    if(str !== null){
        data = JSON.parse(str);
        jQuery.each(data,function(fin,val){
           If (fin===“field1” || fin===“field2”){
             spjs.ac.setFieldValue(fin,Val);
           } else {
             setFieldValue(fin,val);
           }
         });
    }

[Jonathan Stamper]

Ah that’s right I forgot about the invoke functions available from the AC manuals and references. Much appreciated as always!

[Jonathan Stamper]

Oh I get it! The if(GetURLKeyValue…) is outside a function because it’s like my last step for the new form to pick up and copy the data over on. That’s cool.

Is there a specific way I should render AC fields? It looks like they are coming in but not rendering exactly as they would if a user selects them in.

[Jonathan Stamper]

Got it so instead of using presave just trigger via a function that takes the session storage, opens new form and drops it all in there?

[Jonathan Stamper]

Let’s say I have an edit form of a completed item and I wanted to copy or duplicate that request on to a New Form. Would the same logic above work?

[Jonathan Stamper]

Yeah, I just tested it and it worked very well. I ended up setting multiple {internalFieldName} parts, separated by comma, in the to and cc and it’s working well. Looks like I get to clean up my code a little ha-ha.

Thank you so much! As always! Pizza on me ha-ha!

[Jonathan Stamper]

Ah, yep! The more I dove into it the more I was wondering that being the case also. I just put that in and will try that out. Much appreciated.

With that setup I described I wouldn’t be able to use drag and drop because I’m requiring a metadata selection on each attachment.

• This reply was modified 3 years, 6 months ago by Jonathan Stamper.

[Jonathan Stamper]

Using the code above, on occasion it doesn’t rename the child vLookup folder and provides no errors in the log. I think it may have to do with either timing during submission and/or browser compatibility where some users still prefer IE…not sure why though…

Curious if you had any thoughts and/or other solutions? Also, based on background below, could drag and drop be used?

What I’m doing:

• On new form a user selects the attachments tab showing only attachment set up button.
• Clicking the button creates a “temp” folder using the vlookup ID (“:” converted to “_”) in the child doc library. 3 sub-folders are also created and one of the sub-folders is where the attachments go linking to parent. It’s always the same sub-folder.
• The vLookup table and attach file button appears the user can then attach their files (curious about drag and drop here) and they are also required to select from a drop down to add the attachment.
• When the user submits the new form, a programmatic id is created (not a fan of this but they want it). That id is then used to rename the folder on the doc lib.

I tried to create something to check for the renaming when saving in edit form and that’s when I noticed it not always renaming.

• This reply was modified 3 years, 6 months ago by Jonathan Stamper.

[Jonathan Stamper]

That’s a good point. I ended up hosing it for now.

One-off question – does spjs.dffs.alert have a timeout feature? I was going to do an alert popup that would show up for about 3 seconds and then disappear.

[Jonathan Stamper]

That was it! Just needed some time before executing. I even included a 3rd option to catch the mouse up event on the spjs_acItem class to continue appending the field next to it as the user starts clicking items all in one go.

Though it’s a rough/ugly way of setting other fields using multi-select ac it works great!

[Jonathan Stamper]

Ah dang the mouse up is close but still returns the removed item using SetFieldValue. I tried “change” and that didn’t work either. I tried to create a rule but since my ac field is actually a multi-line plain text field I don’t think I can create a rule on that.

• This reply was modified 3 years, 8 months ago by Jonathan Stamper.

[Jonathan Stamper]

I like that! I appreciate it?

[Jonathan Stamper]

I figured it out…

• I had some old AC code in my Custom JS section of the child forms. I’m using external js files now, with the ac inside a function, so it was conflicting
• Once I removed the old Custom JS, the AC on the New child form worked correctly calling the ac function in vLookupPresetFromURLDone
• Finally, the edit form stopped working with AC until I called it in dffs_ready within an if statement using spjs.dffs.data.isEditForm

Glad I got that working as that was causing some headaches haha.

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