Need help in passing value from UI Page to UI action?

[saint]

Hi Experts,

I have a scenarios where,

List choice UI action is on a location table, when I select multiple locations and click the UI action, a record is created for each selected location in one of the custom table, I have achieved this functionality.

Now the further requirement is when user selects the locations and clicks the UI action, he/she should also be able to enter a date which will then be populated in a date field on the new record created in custom table. Let me know if I can solve this with any method other than below which I'm trying.

I am using a UI page to show a popup of date field for user input, but now I cannot use my script in UI action itself to pass the values of selected locations. What I want to achive now is  pass the values of selected locations from UI page to UI action to process further or ( pass it from UI page to its processing script and then to SI for updation )

Please let me know if any more info or inputs are needed. 

Thanks 

[saint]

I tried this, it still returns empty. I'm using jelly, for buttons I have used <button> tag directly.

[Ankur Bawiskar]

@saint 

please use <g:dialog>

can you share your updated UI page HTML and client script?

[saint]

let me share the code now

UI ACTION: 

function launch() {

    var selected_entities = g_list.getChecked();
    alert(selected_entities); // SHOWS ALL SYSIDs
    var modal = new GlideDialogWindow('sn_risk_advanced_scopeduedate');
    modal.setTitle('Select Due Date');
    modal.setPreference('sysparm_view', 'default');
    modal.setPreference('entity',selected_entities);
    modal.render();
}

UI PAGE HTML:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<j:jelly trim="false" xmlns:j="jelly:core" xmlns:g="glide" xmlns:j2="null" xmlns:g2="null">
                        <g:ui_form id="scope">
                 <g:evaluate var="jvar_id" expression="RP.getParameterValue('entity')"/>
                 <input type="hidden" value="${jvar_id}" id="record_sysIds"/>
                 <table>
                         <tr>
                                 <td>Due date</td>
                                 <td><input type="date" id="date_id" name="date"/></td>                              
                         </tr>
                                                                                <tr>
                                <td><button type="reset" onClick="onReset()" class="btn-primary btn" name="reset" id="reset" style="min-width: 5em">${gs.getMessage('Reset')}</button></td>
        <td><button type="submit" onClick="onSubmit()" class="btn-primary btn" name="submit" id="submit" style="min-width: 5em">${gs.getMessage('Submit')}</button></td>
                                </tr>
                       
                 </table>
        </g:ui_form>

</j:jelly>

UI PAGE CLIENT SCRIPT

function onReset() {

    document.getElementById("scope").reset();
}


function onSubmit() {

                alert("Inside submit");
    var date = gel('date_id').value;
    var sysIds = gel('record_sysIds').value;
                alert("date : " + date);
                alert("SysId : " + gel('record_sysIds').value);

    var ga = new GlideAjax('sn_risk_advanced.LRAUtils');
    ga.addParam('sysparm_name', 'createScopeForEntity');
    ga.addParam('sysparm_selected_entities', sysIds);
    ga.addParam('sysparm_due_date', date);
    ga.getXML(doAfterServerResponse);

    /*Throws error alert when entity scope already exists*/
    function doAfterServerResponse(response) {
        var ans = response.responseXML.documentElement.getAttribute("answer");
        if (ans > 0)
            alert("Few records could not be added as record with same risk assessment methodology and entity already exists");
        g_navigation.reloadWindow();
    }

}

[saint]

@Ankur Bawiskar I tried passing a string value in UI action, as below

 modal.setPreference('entity',"SYSID_OF_A_RECORD");

 Still in the onSubmit CS of UI page alert came as null.

the value is not passing through

[Ankur Bawiskar]

@saint 

I think you are in scoped app.

Can you please try this?

 <input type="hidden" name="record_sysIds" id="record_sysIds" value="${entity}"/>