ui macro and current record information

[poyntzj]

Thursday afternoon before a long weekend and I'd said I'd look at something for a colleague and now I regret it

We need to show the information from a "source" record, but the usual dot walking is doing some very odd things.- hi ticket logged

I said, "use something like a summarizer and do it yourself via a ui macro"

Well, in principle it is dead easy, but for some reason I am struggling to get the details of the current record across

In the "approval_summarizer_sc_request", there are the following lines

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<j:jelly trim="true" xmlns:j="jelly:core" xmlns:g="glide" xmlns:j2="null" xmlns:g2="null">
       <tr>
               <td class="label_left" width="100%">
                       ${gs.getMessage('Summary of Request being approved')}:
                       <g:label_spacing/>                               
               </td>
       </tr>
       <g:evaluate var="jvar_total" expression="       
               var sc_request = ${ref}.sysapproval;
gs.log(sc_request);

when I look at an approval for a request, I see an entry in the log for the sys_id

From there it is dead easy to carry on and do what we need -we know as we have updated a couple of these.

I called this a new name and inserted it as a new ui macro

I have made a formatter linking to this new ui macro

I run it I see the text on the screen, but nothing in the log to show me the value from the field

(If I remove lines 12/13 I do see "are you there" in the logs

The code is

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<j:jelly trim="true" xmlns:j="jelly:core" xmlns:g="glide" xmlns:j2="null" xmlns:g2="null">
       <tr>
               <td class="label_left" width="100%">
                       ${gs.getMessage('Summary of tpip being approved')}:
                       <g:label_spacing/>                               
               </td>
       </tr>
       <g:evaluate var="jvar_total" expression="       
gs.log('are you there ?');
               var sc_request = ${ref}.u_inherited_tpip_request;
gs.log(sc_request);

So my questions are

1.   How do I pass the current record information to the script - If get this current ID I can get the field value I need

2.   Better still,. how I do pass the value from the u_inherited_tpip_request

There is scarce info about ui_macro's and on the pages I do see for Jelly etc I do not see any real reference to ${ref}, but the examples do use it

Cheers

[Cary5]

We ended up opening a ticket as well and our issue was solved. The trick for mine was running the UI Macro in Phase 2 (g2/j2) which you were doing in your sample. I just had to reference it via "current.field". Now i'm working to see if I can utilize GlideJellyRunner to invoke it from a client script (with ajax call) to have the UI Macro refresh on the form once a field changes. Hopefully this helps!

<j:jelly trim="false" xmlns:j="jelly:core" xmlns:g="glide" xmlns:j2="null" xmlns:g2="null">
   <g2:evaluate var="jvar_room" expression="
   var room = current.u_conference_room;
   room;
   "/>
   <g2:evaluate var="services" jelly="true" expression="
   var my_services = [];
   if (jelly.jvar_room != ''){
   var serv1 = new GlideRecord('u_m2m_rooms_serv');
   serv1.addQuery('u_room', jelly.jvar_room);
   serv1.orderBy('u_service.u_service_type');
   serv1.query();
   while (serv1.next())
   my_services.push(serv1.u_service.u_service_type.sys_id.toString());
   }


   var services = new GlideRecord('u_service_types');
   if (my_services != '')
   services.addEncodedQuery('sys_idIN' + my_services);
   services.orderBy('u_name');
   services.query();
   "/>
   <style>
   .th {font-weight:normal;font-size:12px;}
   </style>
   <g2:ui_table>
   <j2:if test="$[services.hasNext()]" >
   <TR>
   <TH vAlign="bottom" align="left">
   Available Services
   </TH>
   </TR>
   </j2:if>
   <j2:while test="$[services.next()]">
   <tr>
   <td colspan="2">
   <g:ui_spacer pixels="6"/>
   <g:ui_checkbox name="service_$[services.sys_id]" id="service_$[services.sys_id]" class="checkbox_list_mechanic"/>
   <label class="label_list_mechanic" for="service_$[services.sys_id]"> $[HTML:services.getDisplayValue()] </label>
   </td>
   </tr>
   </j2:while>
   </g2:ui_table>