Testing g_form in Chrome console

[Giri6]

Is it possible to invoked methods on g_form in the console of chrome? I tried and it did not find the object. Wondering if there is any wrapper or  in anyway. Appreciate it.

[Brian Lancaster]

You could put console.log around it.  So something like console.log(g_form.getValue('variablename'));

[Giri6]

Thanks. Somehow it did not work before. I am able to execute the following code.

obj = g_form.getReference('caller_id');

obj.email.

I can get sysid of  caller's department . Is it possible to get department name? For that I need to use again g_form.getReference(). But how does it knows  this sysid is for department table.

I am assuming that getReference only works for field that exists on form and it is reference field with magnifyng lense. I just want to confirm. Appreciate it.

[Brian Lancaster]

you could try obj.deparment.getDisplayValue().  However that may not work.  Your best bet is to use a refence field the points to department table and then doing a g_form.setValue(obj.department).  Since it is a reference filed it will display the name.

[Giri6]

I tried g_form and it worked one time in Chrome console. Now both Firefox and chrome  shows the following as soon as I type g_form on console command. It is easy to test with the console. Any idea on how to make it all the time?

 I thought g_form is global variable and it should be avilable. I am sure it worked one time and tried couple of times to get the data using get_reference()

ReferenceError: g_form is not defined