How to detect form changes in UI Action

[Dev68]

Hi all, 

Would like to know how we can detect if there is any field change on the form, when a UI action button is clicked. 

I tried to use current.changes(); but this is not supported in UI Action, the same with GlideScriptRecordUtil which is not supported for scoped application. 

Regards, 

Ram

[Ankur Bawiskar]

@ram68 

Can you try this in the client side UI action

Checking for Modified or Changed Fields in Script

var field = g_form.getControl('fieldName');

if(field.changed){
// your logic
}

Regards
Ankur

[Dev68]

Hi Ankur, 

The UI Action is server side, and also portal facing. So i cant make the client check box checked and hence the g_form. 

is there any other approach, purely server side, or its even if we can detect the form changes with in the portal client or server side. 

[Ankur Bawiskar]

@ram68 

in that case you can use GlideScriptRecordUtil which is Server Side utility

var gru = GlideScriptRecordUtil.get(current);

var changedFieldNames = gru.getChangedFieldNames();

var changedFieldNamesarray = j2js(changedFieldNames);

var arrayUtil = new ArrayUtil();

gs.info('length ' + changedFieldNamesarray.length);

Regards
Ankur

[Dev68]

Tired the above code in UI Action, but getting below error, looks like its not supported for scoped application. 

GlideScriptRecordUtil is not allowed in scoped applications.