Related Items - Pass Additonal Information

[Jeff Childers]

In the past, I have used your examples to highjack the "New" button in order to pass various parameters via query string to a subform.


Now that you have a related items element in SPFORM, could you provide an example of how to pass and then access addiitonal parameters beyond just the list item ID to the new item form?

[Dmitry Kozlov]

Hello Jeff,

Please use the following js-code to open the specific New form of your related list and to pass additional parameters:

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// Put here the link to the specific New form and pass additional parameters ('test' in my case):
var newFormUrl = '/sites/spform/Lists/Countries/NewForm.aspx?test=1';

// Next 3 lines are required to open form in a dialog.
var uri = new URI(newFormUrl);
var url = uri.getLastPathSegment();
g_useDialogAlwaysList.push(url.toLowerCase());

// Here we replace the standard 'New item' link with our custom link:
$('.ms-list-addnew a').attr('onclick', 'NewItem2(event, "' + newFormUrl + '");return false;'

[Hubbaroo]

I have the parent form with the related items control workibng to create a related item in the child list. We need to set a choice field in the child form based on a selection on the parent form. So far I have tried using the information here but no luck.

[Dmitry Kozlov]

Hubbaroo, please, follow instructions from our article:
http://spform.com/office-365/crea ... office-365

[Hubbaroo]

We have the related creating as expected but can't seem to get any other fields to populate on the related items form. Even if I try to set the value of a text field with the following, only the Company field get the ID, the Textfield gets nothing.


var parentID = fd.getSourceID()
fd.field('Textfield').control().value("Hello")
if (parentID) {
fd.field('Company').control().value(parentID);
$('.company-field').hide();
}

[Dmitry Kozlov]

Please, check if there are any javascript errors in your browser console. Make sure that 'Textfield' is internal name of your field.

[Hubbaroo]

I was using the wrong name. I looked up the internal name and now it works. Thank you.

[Hubbaroo]

If I wanted to pas a value from a field on the display form how would I referance that value. In the edit form I can set an alert to display the value but in the display form I jet get undifined returned???

[Hubbaroo]

This works on the edit form load but returns undefined on the display form load?? This is a choice field with 3 values.


alert(fd.field('Catagory').control().value());

[Dmitry Kozlov]

To get value of the field in Display form, please, use the following code:

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fd.field('InternalName').control()._el().text()