Need to iterate through ui_checkbox elements in jelly ui_form

[Community Alums]

I am trying to create a UI Page to display inventory items and allow a user to check out several of them. My UI Page displays the items with checkboxes and on submit I want to iterate through them and identify what was checked. How do I iterate through these elements to find what was selected in the Processing Script of the UI Page (in order to create a request listing them and mark them unavailable in inventory)? I have used following for the checkboxes in order to retrieve the item sys_id for every one that was checked (which will have a value of true):

'<g:ui_checkbox name="check'+ grItem.sys_id + '" value=""/>'

Also, is there a way in the Processing Script to enumerate all values passed from the UI Page, as in ASP server variables and form elements?

[brnunn]

Did you figure this one out? I need to do something similar

[jeffrey_leboeuf]

There may be a better way to do this, but this just worked for me.

Run your query to gather your dynamic list of sys_ids.

Then using a <j:while> or however you want to loop, build your dynamic checkbox list:

<g:ui_checkbox name="${gr.sys_id}" />

Now, in the processing script, run that same query again so you'd get the same list of sys_ids, and loop through the results, you can get the value (true/false) using:

request.getParameter(gr.sys_id);

So essentially, it would look like in your processing script:

while (gr.next()) {

  gs.log("checkbox value is: " + request.getParameter(gr.sys_id));

}

Hope this makes sense, hope this helps, maybe someone has a better way.

[now_dev]

Hi Jeffrey,

I am trying to achieve something similar. As suggested by you I   am looping my checkbox list and able to get the list of sys_id using request.getParameter but I am not able to set values further. Can you pls guide me here as I am a beginner in SNOW.

<?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:evaluate var="appID" object="true" jelly="true">

var appID;

  var gr = new GlideRecord('sys_app');

  gr.addQuery('scope','x_14777_nous_tpp');

  gr.query();

  while(gr.next()){

  appID = gr.sys_id;

  }

  appID;

</g:evaluate>

<g:evaluate var="gr_cat_item" object="true" jelly="true">

  var catItemId;

  var ecString;

  var gr2 = new GlideRecord('sc_cat_item_producer');

  gr2.addQuery('sys_scope', appID);

  gr2.query();

  while(gr2.next()){

  catItemId = gr2.sys_id;

  }

  ecString = "cat_item.sys_id="+catItemId;

</g:evaluate>

<g:evaluate var="gr_item_vars" object="true" jelly="true">

  var gr3 = new GlideRecord('item_option_new');

  gr3.addEncodedQuery(ecString);

  gr3.addNotNullQuery('name');

  gr3.addQuery('type','NOT IN','12,20,24,19,11');

  gr3.query();

  gr3;

</g:evaluate>

<g:ui_form>

<table style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 5px 5px;">

  <j:while test="${gr3.next()}">

  <j:set var="gr3name" value="${gr3.name}" />

  <g:evaluate var="jvar_isChecked">

  var isChecked = gs.getProperty('x_14777_nous_tpp.show_'+gr3.name);

  isChecked;

  </g:evaluate>

  <tr>

  <td>

  <g:ui_checkbox name="${gr3.sys_id}" value=" ${isChecked}"/>

  <td>$[SP]<b>${gr3.question_text} ${gs.getProperty('x_14777_nous_tpp.show_'+gr3.name)}</b></td>

  </tr>

  </j:while>

  <tr><td colspan="2" height="15px"></td></tr>

<tr>

  <td colspan="2">

  <g:dialog_buttons_ok_cancel ok="return true" cancel="return false"/>

  </td>

  </tr>

  </table>

</g:ui_form>

</j:jelly>

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Processing Script

var appID;

var gr = new GlideRecord('sys_app');

gr.addQuery('scope','x_14777_nous_tpp');

gr.query();

while(gr.next()){

  appID = gr.sys_id;

}

var gr3 = new GlideRecord('sys_properties');

gr3.addQuery('sys_scope', appID);

gr3.query();

while(gr3.next()) {

  gs.debug("checkbox value is: " + request.getParameter(gr3.sys_id));

// if(value==true){

// gs.setProperty("x_14777_nous_tpp.show_"+gr3.name, "true" );

// }

// else{

// gs.setProperty("x_14777_nous_tpp.show_"+gr3.name, "false" );

// }

}