Why is gr.update() duplicating the current record and not updating?

[Ulrich Matthew]

When i click on ok, the record I'm working with is being duplicated and not updated

function onCancel() {
    GlideDialogWindow.get().destroy();
    return false;
}

function onSubmit() {
    var reason = document.getElementById('termination_reason').value;
    var date = document.getElementById('termination_date').value;
    var sysId = g_form.getUniqueValue();
    /*g_form.setValue('u_reason', reason);
	g_form.setValue('u_termination', date);

	g_form.save();
*/

    var employees = new GlideRecord('u_itechag_employees');
    employees.addQuery('sys_id', sysId);
    employees.query();


    if (employees.next()) {
        employees.u_reason = reason;
        employees.u_termination = date;
        employees.update();
    }


    location.reload();

    return true;
}

[Mohith Devatte]

okay then normal g_form.setValue('your field back end name',value); this syntax should work 

and also put alerts of reason and date variables so that we will to know if value is being accessed or not

please try this and let me know

[Ulrich Matthew]

there is a commented section above , which is the way I was trying to call g_form , I think it follows what you just said

g_form.setValue('u_reason', reason);
	g_form.setValue('u_termination', date);

	g_form.save();

(and should work) but is not updating anything

[Mohith Devatte]

did you try alerting reason and date ?are teh values coming in from HTML ?

[Ulrich Matthew]

yes they come from HTML page , I confirm they are being captured in those variables 

[Mohith Devatte]

lets try one thing 

in your HTML code do this change

embed your HTML code between these tow tags 

<form>

your HTML code

</form

please try this