Adding a reference to original change number when using Copy Change.

[tateroth]

The Change team has made a request to reference the original change number when someone uses the Copy Change UI Action.   I create a field called u_original_change on the change form and made it read only.   I added a snippet of code into the Copy Change UI Action to copy the orginal change number to a variable, but am unsure what code and where to place it to paste it into the new form that is created.   Does anyone have any pointers?

function OnCopyChangeClick() {

  function addParam(form, name, val) {

  var inp = cel('textarea', form);

  inp.name = name;

  inp.value = val;

  }

  var srcSysId = g_form.getUniqueValue();

  //added by T8

  var origChange = g_form.getValue('number');

  //end added by T8

  var ga = new GlideAjax('ChangeUtils');

  ga.addParam('sysparm_name', 'getChangeQueryParams');

  ga.addParam('sysparm_src_sysid', srcSysId);

  ga.setWantSessionMessages(true);

  ga.getXMLAnswer(function (queryParam) {

  if (queryParam) {

  var gotoUrl = [];

  gotoUrl.push('srcSysID=' + srcSysId);

  gotoUrl.push('newSysID=$sys_id');

  gotoUrl.push('sysparm_returned_action=$action');

  gotoUrl = 'CopyChangeRelatedLists.do?' + gotoUrl.join('&');

  var form = cel('form', document.body);

  hide(form);

  form.method = "POST";

  form.action = g_form.getTableName() + ".do";

  if (typeof g_ck != 'undefined' && g_ck != "")

  addParam(form, 'sysparm_ck', g_ck);

  addParam(form, 'sys_id', '-1');

  addParam(form, 'sysparm_query', queryParam);

  addParam(form, 'sysparm_goto_url', gotoUrl);

  form.submit();

  }

  });

}

[tateroth]

Yes, I was able to go off of your suggestion to hopefully provide what the change team wants.   I created a business rule that copies the Change Request Number into the Original Change field on insert of update if it is empty, and to make it less confusing for users I created a UI policy to hide the field if it is either empty or when the numbers match.   It only shows when the someone has copied a change.

Thanks so much!

[mansi21]

Hello Tateroth,

Please elaborate how  you did you achieve this.