Generate link in client script gs.showFieldMsg

[sherman_1206]

We can use a gs.showFieldMsg to display text near a field. What if we want to make part of that text a link?

function onChange(control, oldValue, newValue, isLoading, isTemplate) {
     //If the page isn't loading
     if (!isLoading) {
           //If the new value isn't blank
           if(newValue != '') {
                 //Type appropriate comment here, and begin script below
                 var bs = new GlideRecord("cmdb_ci_service");
                 if(bs.get( newValue ) ){
                             var dept = new GlideRecord('cmn_department');
                             if( dept.get( bs.u_service_provider ) ){
                                         var info = 'Service Provider: <a href="nav_to.do?uri=cmn_department.do?sys_id="'+dept.sys_id+'>'+dept.name+'</a>\n Service Category: '+bs.u_service_category;
                                         g_form.showFieldMsg('u_business_service', info, 'info');
                             }
                 }
           }
     }
}

Problem is this field message shows the

"<a href="

portion as well instead of displaying it as HTML. Is there a way to can generate a link to a record in a showFieldMessage?

[TJW2]

Akeel,   How are you embedding the link in 'Portal'.   Can you give the steps or syntax?

[ramya0905]

Can you tell me how to remove this fieldmsg in case the script is 'onchange' of a variable. Every time i choose another option or come back to the old option, the info msg appears again and again one after the other.

[Midhun1]

Hi Ramya,

Use hide field Message :

g_form.hideFieldMsg('variablename',true);

Like

g_form.hideFieldMsg('u_desktop', true);

Example

onChange:

var test=g_form.getValue('u_desktop');

if ( test == 'yes')

{

g_form.hideFieldMsg('u_desktop', true);

g_form.showFieldMsg('u_desktop','Please refer to the Reference Guide for Knowledge base Article Editors for instructions and tips to create End-User articles','info');

              return false;

}

It wont repeat again..

[Adrian A_ Ghida]

I have face it the same situation, I just create a variable macro+widget with the text and the hyperlink, and then a UI policy that will condition that macro variable to be displayed only if in the field X = value Y.

Also some CSS to align that hyperlink.

Thanks,

Adrian