Autopopulate date in a filed on submission in a form.

[Aditya Sinha]

Hello! I have a requirement where I have to autopopulate a field in the form only when it is submitted . How to write a client script for this? Are there any other ways to implement it?

[Sagar Pagar]

Hi @Aditya Sinha,

You can try it by two ways.

On Submit Client scripts:

unction onSubmit() {

		g_form.setValue("field_name", new Date());
	}

Before Insert/update Business rule:

current.setValue("field_name", new GlideDate());
 or

current.setValue("field_name", new GlideDateTime());

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Thanks,
Sagar Pagar

[Aditya Sinha]

Hi Sagar. 

I have a variant of this requirement where I have to populate the current logged in user in a filed of the form. Can you help with the code of this?

Your answer above was very helpful

[Amarjeet Pal]

Hello @Aditya Sinha ,

Just a small twig to the code suggested by @Sagar Pagar 

var currentUser = gs.getUser();

var record = new GlideRecord('table_name');
record.initialize();
record.setValue('field_name', currentUser.getID());
record.insert();

Try this 

Thanks,

Amarjeet Pal

[Sagar Pagar · Accepted solution]

Hi @Aditya Sinha,

To auto-populate logged in user in field. I mean, in reference field you can set default value as

javascript:gs.getUserID();

For String field, use default value as:

javascript:gs.getUserDisplayName();

Refer attached text file.

If my response helps to solve your issue. Kindly mark it as helpful & correct. It will be helpful for future readers! 👍🏻
Thanks,
Sagar Pagar