Is there an "After Related List Edit" Event ?

[GeoffreyOptumOp]

Oh Wow, it's been a very long day...  Need help...

How do I run some code AFTER the user has edited a related list, and maybe added 10 items and removed 500 items, all at once?  I need to perform an action ONE TIME after all the records have been added to and removed from the task_ci table that is represented by this related list.

Currently I have a business rule with some very intensive logic behind it, that is running EVERY TIME a record is deleted from the task_ci table for a task.  It's major overkill.  So again, I need to figure out a clean way to run some code ONLY WHEN all of the "Editing" (adding / deleting) is Done.  Ideally it would happen before the Incident form reloads itself.

Follow?

Thanks!!

[GeoffreyOptumOp]

Hi, @Valor .

I'm using "Rome" currently.  When the user hits Edit, a model window appears with a Slush Bucket.  I'm actually confused about where that model Edit button is defined, and if I can configure it in any way.  It seems to be magic, but I'm probably missing something.  (Again, it was a long day.)

I'm leaning towards a design that looks something like this...

User edits the list.  700 "After Delete" Business Rules fire and 100 "After Insert" Business Rules fire.  For each of those I set a Global Flag somewhere that says Incident Number INC123456 Needs additional processing. Maybe I update the "Tag" field of the Incident (?).  Or I could use a custom field, or perhaps even the "Scratch Pad".  Then maybe I can use an "On Load" client side script to check for the flag, do my additional one-time processing, and then turn Off the flag.

Thoughts?

[Valor1]

Here's the "Edit..." button -- it's marked as "Global" which is why you couldn't find it.

Since you're using the slushbucket for the edit activity, you wouldn't be able to do a whole lot of magic within the UI action like you can with the newer "Add" modal.

https://<<YOUR INSTANCE>>.service-now.com/nav_to.do?uri=sys_ui_action.do?sys_id=7ca0a8d60a0a0b340080d6f48c880640

Now here are two additional approaches you can explore:

1. add "action.setReturnURL('CUSTOM_UI_PAGE.do')" to a UI Page that you've made that performs your desired action. You could look in the user's stack for her browse history and pull the related incident from that (or the sys_m2m_template page's query string which should have the incident and sys_id
2. add a "global" UI Script to look for the URL then monkey patch the "saveAllSelected" function to trigger an AJAX call when the M2M form is submitted

Option one would probably be a bit safer, but option 2 is easier.

Here's the code for "saveAllSelected"

function saveAllSelected(fromSelectArray, toArray, delim, escape, emptyLabel, doEscape) {
    var translatedEmptyLabel = getMessage(emptyLabel);
    for (var i = 0; i < fromSelectArray.length; i++) {
        if (typeof fromSelectArray[i] == "undefined") {
            toArray[i].value = "";
            continue;
        }
        var toValue = "";
        for (var j = 0; j < fromSelectArray[i].length; j++) {
            if (!(fromSelectArray[i].length == 1 && fromSelectArray[i].options[0].value == translatedEmptyLabel)) {
                var val = fromSelectArray[i].options[j].value;
                if (doEscape) val = encodeURIComponent(val);
                toValue += val.replace(new RegExp(delim, "g"), escape + delim);
            }
            if (j + 1 < fromSelectArray[i].length) toValue += delim;
        }
        toArray[i].value = toValue;
    }
}