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Mavis
Ideator I
5 years ago

Is it possible to use the change event trigger of an item to get the name of the field?

hi All, According to this image, my method name is " change_field ". The field names of text boxes framed by dashed lines on the screen are "A", "B", "C", and "D". The text boxes that a...
Client Events
JavaScript
Mavis's avatar
Mavis
Ideator I
5 years ago

Can anyone give me any idea?

silje_dahl's avatar
silje_dahl
Ideator I
5 years ago

How is your method currently implemented?

  • Mavis's avatar
    Mavis
    Ideator I
    5 years ago

    hi , silje.dahl

    Are you asking about my solution?

    I use the same on change method for the A, B, C, and D field events
    When the value of field A, B, C, D is changed, go to the field A1, B1, C1, D1
    Because my initial context setting is to backfill the A1 field after the value of A has been changed according to A
    So I use a loop to search for the fields on the screen in the on change event
    I found the A field and determined that it had a value before backfilling it to A1.

    I'm not good at English, so I'm using a translator for the above description.
    If you don't understand what I mean
    The code in the picture below is for your reference

    • silje_dahl's avatar
      silje_dahl
      Ideator I
      5 years ago

      Hello,

      I'm new to JS methods in ARAS myself, so please excuse me if I don't interpret the issue correctly.

      Does this have to be automatic? Could you not simply pass the name of the current field to the on_change function?

      I.e. have on_change take parameters such as ("propertyToUpdate", "otherPropertyToUpdate")

      Or if the A1 field doesn't have an attached property: ("propertyToUpdate", "otherHTMLFieldToUpdate")

      Then in the function, you could first update the main property:

      handleItemChange(propertyToUpdate, document.getElementById(propertyToUpdate).value);

      Then depending on whether A1 is connected to its own Innovator item or if it's just an HTML field:

      handleItemChange(otherPropertyToUpdate, document.getElementById(propertyToUpdate).value);
      or
      var otherField = document.getElementById(otherHTMLFieldToUpdate);
      otherField.value = document.getElementById(propertyToUpdate).value;
      I don't know how to update how the on_change method is attached to the field but you may have already solved that - otherwise maybe you could do something like this:
      var fieldA = getFieldByName(propertyName);
      var fieldAElement = fieldA.getElementsByTagName("input")[0];
      fieldAElement.onChange = `on_change("requ_beforedt", "otherPropertyOrFieldToUpdate")`
      • Daniels19's avatar
        Daniels19
        Ideator I
        5 years ago

        Hello,

        Thanks for the update and quick reply. I'll be sure to keep an eye on this thread. Thanks for creating it. Looking forward for solution.