Place holder text

[brendanwilson84]

Hi Guys

We have a client script for place holder text which works fine on back end form, naive UI.

function onLoad() {

    //Type appropriate comment here, and begin script below

  var eta= g_form.getControl('u_eventname');

eta.placeholder = "test.";

}

However, we are now using service portal and the form widget to create records etc and this does not come over

Can this be done?

[Aakash Shah4 · Accepted solution]

I guess the g_form.getControl() method is not supported by Service Portal

You can check this link which shows the client side API's which can be used in Service Portal.

It does not contain that method

Service Portal and client scripts

[Aakash Shah4]

Instead of getControl() you can try using g_form.hasField()

Check this posts for more help

g_form.getControl() not working in Service Portal in Catalog Client Script

g_form.getControl not working in service portal

[brendanwilson84]

thanks aakash

I guess its the placeholder is the issue

function onLoad() {

    //Type appropriate comment here, and begin script below

  var eta= g_form.hasField('u_eventname');

alert('test');

eta.placeholder = "test.";

}

I do get the pop of alert in portal using g_form.hasField

[Aakash Shah4]

Hi,

As Saprem rightly said, this feature is available with Jakarta.

How to add the HTML5 placeholder attribute to a Service Catalog Item variable \

Is your instance on Jakarta Release ?

[brendanwilson84]

Instance is on Jarkarta, but this feature is only available on record producers and not normal fields on forms.

I love the idea of placeholder, but found i can use decoration and comes into form widget portal

function onLoad() {

    //Type appropriate comment here, and begin script below

g_form.addDecoration("name field", "fa fa-question-circle", "This works");

}