m_form - Client

Provides methods to get and set input values on input form screens, as well as display messages.

This API supports the following input types:

• Boolean
• Choice
• Date/time
• Number
• Reference
• String

This API can be used with the MobileScriptIncludeCaller - Client API to auto-fill inputs on input form screens. For more information about input form screens, see Input form screen.

Use this API in the Client script field of a Mobile UI Rule Action. For instructions on configuring a Mobile UI Rule Action with the correct settings for this API, see Configure auto-fill inputs on input form screens.

m_form - addErrorMessage(String message)

Displays an error message at the top of the input form screen.

표 1. Parameters

Name	Type	Description
message	String	The message to display.

표 2. Returns

Type	Description
None

In this example, an informational or error message is displayed on the form depending on the value entered for the priority.

// Client script in a Mobile UI Rule Action
function onChange(inputName, newValue) { 
   var priority = newValue; 
   if (priority > 0 && priority < 3) { 
      getMessage("This incident should be handled ASAP", function(response){ 
         m_form.addInfoMessage(response); 
      }); 
   } else { 
      getMessage("The selected priority is invalid", function(response){ 
         m_form.addErrorMessage(response); 
      }); 
   }	 
}

m_form - addInfoMessage(String message)

Displays an informational message at the top of the input form screen.

표 3. Parameters

Name	Type	Description
message	String	The message to display.

표 4. Returns

Type	Description
None

In this example, an informational or error message is displayed on the form depending on the value entered for the priority.

// Client script in a Mobile UI Rule Action
function onChange(inputName, newValue) { 
   var priority = newValue; 
   if (priority > 0 && priority < 3) { 
      getMessage("This incident should be handled ASAP", function(response){ 
         m_form.addInfoMessage(response); 
      }); 
   } else { 
      getMessage("The selected priority is invalid", function(response){ 
         m_form.addErrorMessage(response); 
      }); 
   }	 
}

m_form - getValue(String inputName)

Returns the value of a specified input on an input form screen.

표 5. Parameters

Name	Type	Description
inputName	String	Name of the input to return the value of.

표 6. Returns

Type	Description
String	The value of the specified input. 주: If the input is a choice list with multi-select, the return type is an array of strings containing the selected values.

This client script passes the employee_id input value to the script include, which uses the ID to look up the employee's title. The title is provided to the callback function, which it uses to auto-fill the business_title input on the input form screen.

// Client script in a Mobile UI Rule Action
function onChange(inputName, newValue) { 
   var employeeId = m_form.getValue("employee_id"); 
   var caller = new MobileScriptIncludeCaller("UserUtilsTest", "getBusinessTitle"); 
   caller.addParam("employeeId", employeeId); 
   caller.call(function(response) { 
      m_form.setValue("business_title", response); 
   }); 
}

Script include.

// Mobile callable script include
var UserUtilsTest = Class.create(); 
UserUtilsTest.prototype = Object.extendsObject(global.AbstractMobileCallableInclude, { 
   getBusinessTitle: function() { 
      var employeeId = this.getParameter("employeeId"); 
      var gr = new GlideRecord("sys_user"); 
      gr.get(employeeId); 
      return gr.getValue("title"); 
   }, 
   type: 'UserUtilsTest' 
});

m_form - setAffectedInputs(Array inputNames)

Adds a shimmering effect to specified inputs indicating that the value is being set by a script.

The shimmering effect ends once the value for the input is set.

표 7. Parameters

Name	Type	Description
inputNames	Array	Array of strings containing the names of inputs to apply the shimmer effect to.

표 8. Returns

Type	Description
None

This client script adds a shimmer effect to the caller input to indicate that it's auto-filled.

// Client script in a Mobile UI Rule Action
function onChange(inputName, newValue) { 
   var affectedInputs = []; 
   affectedInputs.push("Caller"); 
   m_form.setAffectedInputs(affectedInputs); 
   m_form.setValue("Caller", ["800b174138d089c868d09de320f9833b", "46d44a23a9fe19810012d100cca80666"]); 
   var result = m_form.getValue("Caller"); 
   console.log(`Ref test: ${result[0]}`); 
}

m_form - setValue(String inputName, Object value, String displayValue)

Sets the value of a specified input on an input form screen.

표 9. Parameters

Name	Type	Description
inputName	String	Name of the input to set the value of.
value	Object	Value to set the input to. The data type of the value varies based on the input being set.
displayValue	String	Optional. Use this parameter when setting the value of Reference type inputs.

표 10. Returns

Type	Description
None

This example sets an integer value for the order input.

m_form.setValue("order", 5);

This example sets a string value for the description input.

m_form.setValue("description", "This is the description content");

This example uses an object containing the value and display value to set a reference type input.

m_form.setValue("Caller", [{"value":"800b174138d089c868d09de320f9833b", "displayValue":"Abel Tuter"}]);