Help required with addition in a Client Script

[arnabbose]

Hi Experts,

I am trying to do a wright% validation on my form with below Client Script. If total weight is more or less than 100% ; alert should throw.

function onSubmit() {

  //Type appropriate comment here, and begin script below

  process_req_type();

  function process_req_type(){

  var w1=g_form.getValue('weight');

  alert(w1);

  var w2=g_form.getValue('weight_1');

  alert(w2);

  var w3=g_form.getValue('weight_3');

  var w4=g_form.getValue('weight_4');

  var w5=g_form.getValue('weight_5');

  var w6=g_form.getValue('weight_6');

  var w7=g_form.getValue('weight_7');

  var w8=g_form.getValue('weight_8');

  var w9=g_form.getValue('weight_9');

  var w10=g_form.getValue('weight_10');

  var w = (w1+w2+w3+w4+w5+w6+w7+w8+w9+w10);

  alert(w);

  if ( w == 100)

  {

  g_form.setValue ('total_weight', Math.round(w));

  }

  else {

  alert ("Total weight% cannot be less or more than 100% , please re-enter values");

  g_form.setValue ('total_weight', "");

  g_form.setValue ('weight', "");

  g_form.setValue ('weight_1', "");

  g_form.setValue ('weight_3', "");

  g_form.setValue ('weight_4', "");

  g_form.setValue ('weight_5', "");

  g_form.setValue ('weight_6', "");

  g_form.setValue ('weight_7', "");

  g_form.setValue ('weight_8', "");

  g_form.setValue ('weight_9', "");

  g_form.setValue ('weight_10', "");

  return false;

  }

  }

}

The issue is that the addition is not happening and w is stroing concatenated values from variables w1 , w2, w3 etc.

For example, I put 50 in w 1 and w2 -- instead of 100 , w holds 5050.

Please help me resolve this!!!

[Chuck Tomasi]

FYI, you don't need to do parseInt() twice per variable. Either do it when you read getValue() or when you do the addition.

Also, When I use it, always make sure to use "10" as the second argument as in

var w3 = parseInt(g_form.getValue('weight_3'), 10);

to ensure decimal precision so there is no ambiguity.

[arnabbose]

Hi ctomasi,

The script is not working in any way I modify it!

Please can you paste the script that'll work.

[Chuck Tomasi]

Let's start small just to ensure things are working as expected, then extend out once we've verified it. Try this and tell me what you see.

function onSubmit() {

  var w1=g_form.getValue('weight');

  var w2=g_form.getValue('weight_1');

  var i1 = parseInt(w1, 10);

  var i2 = parseInt(w2, 10);

  var w = (i1+i2);

  alert(w);

  return false;

}

[ramireddy]

I guess "/"(Divide) operator is only for numbers. So, javascript converted them as numbers and performed the division operation. But + operator is used both for addition and concatenation. By default getValue() returned string. So, it concatenating them.

[ramireddy]

Hi Arnab,

getValue() method returns string, so convert it to integer using parseInt method. If decimals are also allowed, use parseFloat() method.

var w1= parseInt(g_form.getValue('weight'));