Why I just can not get the field value from UI Macro

James100
Kilo Expert

Hi,

I have a field ('name') and a UI Macro on a form.

The UI Macro is just to get the field value and display it. The code is like below.

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<?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="jvar_user" object="true">
        ${ref_parent}.getValue("name");
    </g:evaluate>
    
    <div>name=${jvar_user}</div>

</j>

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Below is the page I'm getting. saying there is a reference error. I'm not familiar with Jelly and have no idea what's wrong. Can you help me out?

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Hi James,

below worked for me in my instance; you need to use <g2:evaluate> tag; phase 2 jelly tags

I believe using phase 1 jelly i.e. <g:evaluate> it doesn't get the value

<g2:evaluate var="jvar_user" object="true">
        var value = current.name;

        gs.info('Value is: ' + value);
        value;
    </g2:evaluate>
    
    <div>name=$[jvar_user]</div>

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Thanks
Ankur

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Ankur
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Thanks so much Ankur. The comment has been hided, so I haven't noticed it. I have marked it as correct answer. 🙂

Thanks James. Yeah it happens sometime.

Regards
Ankur

Regards,
Ankur
Certified Technical Architect  ||  9x ServiceNow MVP  ||  ServiceNow Community Leader

nothing is working for me. i have these form values where i have referenced the UI Macro

<g:evaluate var="jvar_creds" object="true">
        var credTypeValue = current.u_credential_types;
        var user = current.u_cred_username;
        var pass = current.u_cred_password;
        gs.info("Value is "+pass);
        pass;
    </g:evaluate>
    <div>name=$[jvar_creds]</div>