How to check if UI Action is fired from the form or list?

[Tom Sienkiewicz]

Hi,

I have a Client UI Action that is available both as a form button and a list context menu.

What I' having trouble with is the gsftSubmit() function and any of the g_form functions are not available if run from e.g. a related list.

Do you guys (and gals) have any ideas how I might check from where the UI Action was triggered?

typeof rowSysId returns a value in both cases, so no use

g_form === undefined also does not seem to work.

I would like to write an if block so that if the UIA is triggered from a list it will run different client code than from a form.

Any help much appreciated,

Thanks!

[Brad Tilton · Accepted solution]

You could just check the url of the frame for _list.

[Tom Sienkiewicz]

Right, haven't thought of that. thanks!

[santhoshaitha]

Hello Tomaz,

Though it seems you already have a solution, just wanted to share what I did for similar situation where I need to detect if a UI Action is fired from List Context or Form.

After lot of searching in Wiki and Community posts, I came up with below script to check and perform actions based on it:

gURI = action.getGlideURI();

var isList = gURI.get('sys_is_list');

var isRelList = gURI.get('sys_is_related_list');

if(isList || isRelList){

  perform list actions; //only if UI Action is fired from list or related list context menu

}else{

  perform form actions; //only if UI Action is fired from form view

}

Hope this helps!

Regards,

Santhosh

[snoozer]

Thank you for this post from five years ago. It has really helped me today! This works great and is exactly what I need.