Change of label of field only in parent table

harshvardhan_11 · ‎12-21-2016

HI,

I have a requirement where I want to change a field only on parent table, and not on its child table. Is there a possibility of doing so, without adding label for all the childs.

E.g. I have field named 'Used by' which is being used by all child tables (lets say X,Y,Z) of a table(B) which is again a child of table(A).

(A) - Used by

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(B) - Used by

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(X)(Y)(Z)- Used by

I want to change the label of field to 'Using' in table(B), and all other table should have the field label as 'Used by'.

(A) - Used by

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(B) - Using

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(X)(Y)(Z)- Used by

I used the label related list in field dictionary and changed for label for table (B) but it also changed the label for (X)(Y)(Z).

Is there any possibility if I can change only for table (B) without creating any extra rows in label related list for all childs.

Chuck Tomasi · ‎12-21-2016

You may want to take a look at g_form.setLabel()

This could be used from within an onLoad client script to set the field label if your table is "B". Also see g_form.getTableName().

It might look something like this:

function onLoad() {

if (g_form.getTableName() == "table_b")

g_form.setLabelOf('field_name', 'Using');

}

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Chuck Tomasi · ‎12-21-2016

edits made. Thanks for pointing that out. Go ahead and mark it correct. We all learned something today.

Akshat Chawla · ‎12-21-2016

Hi,

Use can make use of dictionary override. Please refer the wiki link below it will fulfill your requirement.

Dictionary Overrides - ServiceNow Wiki

Let me know in case you need further assistance over this. Happy to assist.

Chuck Tomasi · ‎12-21-2016

FYI - Field labels are not defined in dictionary overrides. Dictionary overrides are for default values, display values, etc. The labels are in a related list on the dictionary entry (next to dictionary overrides.) They are stored in a completely different table.

Akshat Chawla · ‎12-21-2016

Hi Chuck,

That I am aware we cannot change the field labels through Dictionary override. But what I was suggesting harshvardhanjoshi can make use of dictionary override to change the display value for the field in table (B).

Chuck Tomasi · ‎12-21-2016

Thanks for the clarification, however changing the display value still has nothing to do with the labels that appear on the form. It's only effective for what is displayed in a reference field when another table is referencing records from that table. I saw nothing about reference fields in the original question posed by Harshvardhan.