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Posted: **2023-03-06 03:25**

Hi Team bizzworxx,

today, I upgraded to version 2022.12.09

After the update ... I have now an issue with getValue() ... everything worked ok with the previous version 2021.07.29

Example:
var dv = AppGiniHelper.DV;
var ACTION = AppGiniField('ActionR').getValue(); ... not work now

Does the syntax changed in the new version ?

Thank's for your help

Posted: **2023-03-06 06:03**

Can you please give me more details:

Datatype settings of that field "ActionR"
Does the problem occur in readonly- or in edit-mode?
What is the expected result and what is the actual return value?
Is it on load or later on? For lazy-loaded fields (like lookups) you will have to wait for them.
Are there any (red) error messages in console tab? Fix them first!
Are there any (yellow) warning messages in console tab, starting with "AppGiniHelper |"?

Posted: **2023-03-06 06:34**

By the way:
If you send your order number to me by email, within your 1-year-free-updates period I can send the latest version to you. There have been some improvements to .getValue() function recently.

Posted: **2023-03-06 08:32**

Does the syntax changed in the new version ?

No, but I recommend using...

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var field = AppGiniHelper.DV.getField("FIELDNAME");
var field_value = f.getValue();

...instead, which should be a little more performant if you use the field more often in the same script.

Posted: **2023-03-06 08:51**

var ACTION = AppGiniField('ActionR').getValue();

If ActionR-field is a lookup (which I cannot see from your bugreport), remember that .getValue() returns an object, having id and text, not a simple type value.

Check return value in console:

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var field = AppGiniHelper.DV.getField("FIELDNAME");
var field_value = f.getValue();
console.log(field_value);

Examples

Here are two examples, directly from console.

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First calls .getValue() on a field which is VarChar[100] field, converted to color-picker by using dv.getField("varchar").toColorPicker(); (just an example from a previous forum thread)

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.getValue() evaluates as a (simple-type) string.
Second calls .getValue() on a field which is a Lookup field (unsigned int).

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getValue() evaluates as an object, having id and text properties.

Tip (1)

Use field_value.id and/or field_value.text for getting the id or the text of the selected entry of a lookup field, if set.

Tip (2)

If you only need the text-value of a lookup-field's selection, you can use .getValue(true):

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Tip (3)

If there is no selection, yet, .getValue() returns null and getValue(true) returns an empty string:

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Posted: **2023-03-06 22:39**

Hi Jsetzer ,

Wow ... very fast answer !!!

I will try it this evening (I live in Canada ... not the same time zone)

P.S: I like the AppGINI Helper ... it save a lot of time ... very cool to use it

Best !!!

Michel Berthiaume

Posted: **2023-03-07 00:02**

Great !!!

var ACTION = AppGiniField('ActionR').getValue(); ... not work before.

Now: var ACTIONR = AppGiniHelper.DV.getField("ActionR").getValue(); ... Work A1

Thank's for your time !!!

Regards

Posted: **2023-03-07 14:29**

var ACTION = AppGiniField('ActionR').getValue();

Arghhh, I have just seen why your original code did not work. I have missed that before

You can still use the "old" constructor, but this requires a "new" keyword:

Wrong

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var ACTION = AppGiniField('ActionR').getValue();

Right

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var ACTION = new AppGiniField('ActionR').getValue();

In other words

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// deprecated
var field = new AppGiniField('FIELDNAME');
var field_value = field.getValue();

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// recommended
var field = AppGiniHelper.DV.getField('FIELDNAME');
var field_value = field.getValue();

Posted: **2023-03-07 14:31**

Pro-Tip

If you declare the (Javascript) DV-variable in hooks/header-extras.php already, you don't have to declare it in every DV.

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<!-- file: hooks/header-extras.php -->
<script>
var DV = AppGiniHelper.DV;
</script>

DV will be available automatically in each hooks/TABLENAME-dv.js:

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// file: hooks/TABLENAME-dv.js
var field = DV.getField("fieldname");
var field_value = field.getValue();
console.log(field_value);

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