Invoke javascript from a button

[gzhao888]

I am a web developer. I am working on a Service Center 6.2 project. I need to invoke javascript code when a button is clicked on a SC form inside the fat Client not web client. Would anyone give me a step by step guide on how this can be accomplished in Service Center client?

Thank you very much.

[Artur]

1. in SC client go to your format on which you want the button
2. notice the text in the brackets in rigth bottom corner (this is screen id) and the text before the corner (this is name of the format). for example:
IM.update.incident(apm.edit.problem)
IM.update.incident - is format name
apm.edit.problem - is screen id
3. in command line (left upper corner) write "do" and hit enter
4. search for displayoptions with screen id = apm.edit.problem
5. add a new displayoption and place the javascript on the javascript tab,
choose the unuiqe gui number (above 200) and save it
6. in command line write fd and hit enter
7. search for your format and hit Design
8. place a new button. In button id field place the gui number from point 5
9. save it

regards
Artur

[jcperez]

Why the gui number must be above 200? I have read in the documentation the difference in the gui number should be above 800, because below 800 are used for buttons in the toolbar.

By the way, once this JS code is executed, what are the steps to open a new fd I have created?
I have seen in the documentation a function called wopen that seems to be valid for this purpose, but I don't know how to use it.

In my case I have put in the do associated to my button a jscall to my script library instead writing the JS code in the JS tab.

Thanks a lot in advance.

[Artur]

When you search for "800" in help server - nothing appears. So 200 is the 'magic' number for deciding where the option will be displayed.

If you want the form to be displayed - you have to use scripts, wizards or just some application which by default displays the forms.

I was refferring the original question, which I understood as how to add the button on existing form, not how to add the button and then display new form.

regards
Artur

[gzhao888]

Thanks a lot Artur. That really help. I followed your steps and created a button but when the form is loaded, the button is disabled. What did I miss? (see attachment)


BTW, jcperez, what document you referred to in your message. I have little document about SC except windows client help and two handout from essential and tayloring classes (I have not attended class BTW).

I am a web developer by trade and need to finish a project in less than two months. I practically has no mentors to learn from except from those books and from existing code and from your guys. If any of you would point me to the right direction in order to get to speed quickly with windows client tayloring, I will be grateful.

Thanks again.

[gzhao888]

I figured it out. Somehow, the screen ID used in form design is totally different from the screen ID when form is running. Only the screen ID in a running form matters.

[jcperez]

Hi gzhao888,

The pdf document I was talking about could be found in the Help Contents, under the section ServiceCenter PDF Guides, at the bottom of the Contents. In that section there are attached several pdf guides: the one I found the wopen call is the Rapid Aplication Development (RAD) one.

Hope this helps.

[gzhao888]

I never realized there are links to a bunch of pdf documents in Help Contents. It is not very obvious until you clicked a search result. That helps. Thanks, jcperez.