Autopopulating fields in a form built in UI Pages

[yundlu316]

Hi, I'm creating a form in a UI Page and want to pre-populate some fields from sys_user.   The issue I run into is this error message: "The value of attribute "value" associated with an element type "input" must not contain the '<' character."

I've used the following script to pull the first_name field from sys_user:

<script>

<g:evaluate var="jvar_user_name">  

var gr = new GlideRecord('sys_user');  

gr.get('sys_id', gs.getUserID());  

gr.first_name.getHTMLValue();  

</g:evaluate>

</script>

Here's my HTML:

<table>

  <tr>

      <td><input type="text" id="first_name" name ="firstname" value="<g:no_escape>${jvar_user_name}</g:no_escape>"></input></td>

</tr>

</table>

Is there an alternate syntax to do this?

[Nam Nguyen]

Just wondering what are you trying to achieve by putting HTML content into the input value?

If it's just value, can it be done without the HTML?

<script>

<g:evaluate var="jvar_user_name">

var gr = new GlideRecord('sys_user');

gr.get('sys_id', gs.getUserID());

gr.first_name;

</g:evaluate>

</script>

Here's my HTML:

<table>

  <tr>

      <td><input type="text" id="first_name" name ="firstname" value="${jvar_user_name}"></input></td>

</tr>

</table>

[yundlu316]

HI Nam, you're correct, if I take out getHTMLValue I still get the field values, however it loses all of its formatting.   For example, without getHTMLValue for phone number returns +12025555555, but if getHTMLValue remains, then phone number returns as +1(202) 555-5555.

Thanks.