Alerting in UI’s page client script

[EH Desev]

Hello experts,

I am trying to alert in UI’s page client script and the message to be displayed on the UI form but the script is not working for some reason.

I want a message to be displayed on below form when the user tries to press OK without filling the reference fields (Select a Parent and Select  Type of Relationship). 

Below is my UI Page script:

HTML section:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<j:jelly trim="false" xmlns:j="jelly:core" xmlns:g="glide" xmlns:j2="null" xmlns:g2="null">
	 <j:set var="jvar_ObjList" value="${sysparm_checkedRecord}"/>
	<g:ui_form id="f_id">
	<center>	
	<table>
	<tr>
	<td>Select a Parent: </td>
    <td><g:ui_reference name="nameCi" table = "cmdb_ci_server" query="sys_idNOT IN${sysparm_checkedRecord}"/> </td>
	</tr>
	<tr style="height: 25px;"/>
	<tr>
	<td>Select Type of Relationship:  </td>
    <td><g:ui_reference name = "nameRel" table = "cmdb_rel_type"/> </td>
	</tr>		

	<tr style="height: 25px;"/>
	<tr>
		<td>Click OK to create these relationships</td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
         <td align="right" colspan="2">
            <br />
			 <input type="hidden" id="childCis" name="childCis" value="${sysparm_checkedRecord}"/>
		<g:dialog_buttons_ok_cancel ok="return validate()" />

         </td>
	</tr>	
		
	</table>
			
		</center>
		 </g:ui_form>
</j:jelly>

 Client script section:

function validate() {

    if (nameCi == '') {

        alert('Please fill in Parent field');
    } 
	
	else if (nameRel == '') {
        alert('Please fill in Type of Relationship field');

    }


    GlideDialogWindow.get().destroy();
    return true;
}

 Thanks!

[EH Desev]

Hi Danish,

Unfortunately now I came across another problem. 

The alert is displaying every time even when the two fileds are filled. It seems that the "if" condition returns "true" every time, even when it is "false" and triggers the alert. Any thoughts what could be causing this?

function validate() {

    var nameCiValue = '${nameCi}';

    var nameRelValue = '${nameRel}';

    if (nameCiValue == '') {

        alert('Please fill in Parent field');


    } else if (nameRelValue == '') {

        alert('Please fill in Type of Relationship field');

        return false;
    }


    GlideDialogWindow.get().destroy();
    return true;
}

[Danish Bhairag2]

Hi @EH Desev ,

Can u put an alert for nameCiValue field or nameRelValue field n see what it is displaying?

Thanks,

Danish

[Emanuil Hr]

Hi

Thanks for the proposal, this helped me troubleshoot the issue. 

I had to change the values in the scrip as follows:

nameCiValue = nameCi.value;
nameRelValue = nameRel.value;