Get selected items from related list.

[Ivar Donado]

Hi guys,

I got a question, there's one coworker who's trying to add some extra functionality to the "Create Change" button on the Vulnerability group form. In that form there's a related list of "vulnerable items" and he's trying to somehow grab what records are selected on that list through a script. I've been researching for a while but have only found information about using g_list.getChecked(), which only works directly on the list. I don't really think there's a way to grab that information as a related list is more of a "view" of an existing list with it's own query.

If you have any suggestions, I'll be thankful to see them ^^

[Brad Tilton]

So the behavior would be that someone would scroll down to the list, check a bunch of items, then scroll back up and use the Create Change button? I think you're right that it would be difficult to get the checked items on the related list from the change button. You could instead run a ui action on that list that could access the checked boxes directly, or create some sort of popup when they hit create change where they can select the vulnerable items.

[Ivar Donado · Accepted solution]

We ended up finding a solution. It consisted in capturing the related list in an object so we could use GetChecked() on it by using getByName([related-list-name]).

var list = GlideList2.getByName("relatedListName");

var itemArray = list.getChecked();

itemArray would contain sys_ids of the selected items.

[Kaushal Mistry1]

Hi Ivar,

I have tried to get the selected records from a related list using the following script:

function test() {
    alert(g_form.getRelatedListNames());
    try {
        var list = GlideList2.getByName('REL:95ba1bf51bf0bc10fccfa9f6624bcbcb_list');
        alert(list);
        var itemArray = list.getChecked();
        alert(JSON.stringify(itemArray));
    } catch (ex) {
        alert(ex);
    }
}

But the list is shown as null and I am getting the TypeError: Cannot read property 'getChecked' from null.
And I am also having the doubt about the "relatedListName" used in this. Am I using the correct name.?

If yes, then will you be able to help me on this.?

Thanks,
Kaushal

[SAI KUMAR BILLA]

Hi Kaushal,

Use the below code:

var selected = g_list.getChecked().split(',');

alert(selected);

It will return you the selected records.