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]

Hi All, ading my code below, **please reply to the original post as I may need to edit or delete this reply in future.

UI Action SCRIPT:

function launch() {

    var selected_entities = g_list.getChecked(); // I want to pass this value till SI to create new records 
***NEED HELP IN THIS****CHECK ABOVE COMMENT****
    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">
<table>
    <tr>
        <td>Due date</td>
        <td><input type="date" id="date_id" name="date"/></td>
                                <td><input type="hidden" id="jvar_answer" name="jvar_answer" value=""/></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
                                <td><input type="reset" onClick="onReset()"/></td>
        <td><input type="submit" onClick="onSubmit()"/></td>
    </tr>
</table>
</g:ui_form>

</j:jelly>

UI Page Client Script:

function onReset() {
                
    document.getElementById("scope").reset();
}

function onSubmit() {
                alert("test"); // this pops ups in testing
    gel("jvar_answer").value = g_list.getChecked(); // working on  this to see if I can pass value
                
}

UI Page PROCESSING SCRIPT:

alert(jvar_answer);
var ga = new GlideAjax('sn_risk_advanced.LRAUtils');
ga.addParam('sysparm_name', 'createScopeForEntity');
ga.addParam('sysparm_selected_entities', jvar_answer);
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();
}

Script Include:

createScopeForEntity: function() {
        var methodology;
        var due_date;
        var selected_entities;
        var entities;
        var count = 0;
        var en;

        /*fetches the methodology where state is published and assesment type is LRA*/
        var gr1 = new GlideRecord('sn_risk_advanced_risk_assessment_methodology');
        gr1.addEncodedQuery('state=2^u_assessment_type=0');
        gr1.query();
        while (gr1.next()) {
            methodology = gr1.getValue('sys_id');
        }
     

        /*uses the ajax call from UI action to pass the selected entities */
        due_date = this.getParameter('sysparm_due_date');
        selected_entities = this.getParameter('sysparm_selected_entities');
        entities = selected_entities.split(',');
      

        /*loops the selected entities*/
        for (var i = 0; i < entities.length; i++) {
            en = entities[i];

            /*checks if the entity-methodology scope already exists*/
            var gr2 = new GlideRecord('sn_risk_advanced_risk_assessment_scope');
            gr2.addQuery('entity', en);
            gr2.query();
            while (gr2.next()) {
                count++;
            }
            /*creates the new scope for entity-methodology*/
            var gr = new GlideRecord('sn_risk_advanced_risk_assessment_scope');
            gr.initialize();
            gr.setValue('risk_assessment_methodology', methodology);
            gr.setValue('entity', en);
            gr.setValue('u_due_date', due_date)
            gr.insert();
        }
        /*return if relationship exists*/
        if (count > 0) {
            return count;
        }
    }