Search Results for 'form.getRecords'

[Glen Forister]

That is great. I put it in the script right after the other “var”s near the top. Hope that is the right place.

function Get_Previous_Record() {

var records = form.getRecords();
var currentRecordIndex = records.indexOf(record);
// added var for Oct 1st.
var previousRecord = nil;
var date = record.getFieldValue(‘fld-0720a5baa6fc4980aee22798bd089714’);
if (date.getMonth() == 9 && date.getDate() == 1){ // check for October 1st
return 0;
}
// end added var for Oct 1

if (currentRecordIndex > 0) {
previousRecord = records[currentRecordIndex – 1];
}

if (previousRecords != nil) {
// fetch some value and do some calculation with it and the current record
// the currently selected record is always accessed with the built-in variable
// record
}
}

Get_Previous_Record();

[Daniel Leu]

This should to the trick to reset the season total at the beginning of the year:

function Season_to_date() {
	
	var records = form.getRecords();
    	var currentRecordIndex = records.indexOf(record);

    	if (currentRecordIndex > 0) {
        	var previousRecord = records[currentRecordIndex-1];
    	} else {
     		return 0;
    	}

	// Is this the beginning of the year?
	var date = record.getFieldValue('fld-0720a5baa6fc4980aee22798bd089714');
	if (date.getMonth() == 0 && date.getDate() == 1){
		return 0;
	}
	
	var today = record.getFieldValue('fld-61c03b767f2c497491d10a28db8abdb3');
	var previous_total = previousRecord.getFieldValue('fld-f6bc7e82da874579940fb8afc167dac4');
	var total = today + previous_total;
	
	console.log("Today: " + today)
	console.log("Previous: " + previous_total)
	console.log("Total: " + total)
	
	return total;
}

Season_to_date();

[Daniel Leu]

Hi Glen,

Thank you for sharing your form! The script Brendan posted is for a field of the type Script and not Calculation.

Here is the updated script that works for me:

function Season_to_date() {
	
	var records = form.getRecords();
    	var currentRecordIndex = records.indexOf(record);

    	if (currentRecordIndex > 0) {
        	var previousRecord = records[currentRecordIndex-1];
    	} else {
     		return 0;
    	}

	var today = record.getFieldValue('fld-61c03b767f2c497491d10a28db8abdb3');
	var previous_total = previousRecord.getFieldValue('fld-f6bc7e82da874579940fb8afc167dac4');
	var total = today + previous_total;
	
	console.log("Today: " + today)
	console.log("Previous: " + previous_total)
	console.log("Total: " + total)
	
	return total;
}

Season_to_date();

[Brendan]

You can get the previous record with this code:

function Get_Previous_Record() {

	var records = form.getRecords();
	var currentRecordIndex = records.indexOf(record);
	var previousRecord;
	
	if (currentRecordIndex > 0) {
		previousRecord = records[currentRecordIndex - 1];
	}
	
	if (previousRecord != undefined) {
		// fetch some value and do some calculation with it and the current record
		// the currently selected record is always accessed with the built-in variable
		// record
	}
}

Get_Previous_Record();

• This reply was modified 2 years, 3 months ago by Brendan.
• This reply was modified 2 years, 3 months ago by Brendan.
• This reply was modified 2 years, 3 months ago by Brendan. Reason: Fixed a syntax error

[Daniel Leu]

To get the comparison to work, you need to get the numerical representation of the date. Additionally, the date object needs to set to the beginning of the day to properly detect a prior date.

function Delete_Expired_Docs() {

	var records = form.getRecords();
	var field_id = 'fld-xxx';
	
	// Get time in ms at beginning of today
	let now = new Date();
	now.setSeconds(0);
	now.setMinutes(0);
	now.setHours(0);
	now.setMilliseconds(0);
	const today = now.getTime();
		
for (var index = 0, count = records.length; index < count; index++){
    var aRecord = records[index];
    var field_value = aRecord.getFieldValue(field_id);

    if (field_value.getTime() < today) {
        //form.deleteRecord(aRecord);
        console.log("found record");
    } else {
    	console.log("record doesn't match");
    }
}

form.saveAllChanges();

}

Delete_Expired_Docs();

BTW, I don’t like deleting records… I would just mark a record as ‘expired’. But that depends really on your data model.

[Ian Wheeler]

Hi Folks,

I am trying to check via a script whether a Date field contains a date that is earlier than today. If it is then I want to delete the record. Ideally this would be a manually run script. I am very new to TF (and loving it, and am in the process of migrating over from Filemaker) and Javascript. Below is the script that I have which just doesn’t work. I suspect it is my Date comparison element that is the problem as the Console.Log isn’t detecting any errors, but I don’t know how to fix it. Any help would be greatly appreciated

function Delete_Expired_Docs() {

	var records = form.getRecords();
var field_id = 'fld-46f16c00d13344e79478a8b629022ee7';
	
for (var index = 0, count = records.length; index < count; index++){
    var aRecord = records[index];
    var field_value = aRecord.getFieldValue(field_id);
    if (field_value < Date()) {
        form.deleteRecord(aRecord);
    }
}

form.saveAllChanges();

console.log(field_value);
console.log(count);
console.log(Date());

}

Delete_Expired_Docs();

• This topic was modified 2 years, 4 months ago by Brendan.
• This topic was modified 2 years, 4 months ago by Brendan. Reason: formatted code

[Jake Gregory]

Thank you for your response Brendan, I decided to have a bash on my own – not much luck though lol

However I have managed to rather clumsily get it working from the code you provided.


function Update_Prices() {

var group_1_id = 'fld-0305473a4c7e41f69ee491266c99ec03';
var group_2_id = 'fld-93197576ce50421599626d9ccacff2f5';
var group_3_id = 'fld-ec93413e3880425da973d35d93b99595';
var group_4_id = 'fld-cd36a8501faf45408cd88e607e0bc4e1';

var records = form.getRecords();
var price_increase_percent = 0.12;

for (var index = 0, count = records.length; index < count; index++){
var rec = records[index];

var g1_current_price = rec.getFieldValue(group_1_id);
var g2_current_price = rec.getFieldValue(group_2_id);
var g3_current_price = rec.getFieldValue(group_3_id);
var g4_current_price = rec.getFieldValue(group_4_id);

var g1_new_price = g1_current_price + g1_current_price * price_increase_percent;
var g2_new_price = g2_current_price + g2_current_price * price_increase_percent;
var g3_new_price = g3_current_price + g3_current_price * price_increase_percent;
var g4_new_price = g4_current_price + g3_current_price * price_increase_percent;

rec.setFieldValue(group_1_id, g1_new_price);
rec.setFieldValue(group_2_id, g2_new_price);
rec.setFieldValue(group_3_id, g3_new_price);
rec.setFieldValue(group_4_id, g4_new_price);

}
form.saveAllChanges();

}

Update_Prices();


I’m sure there’s a much better way to do this, but I’ll get there.

I want to add a prompt box that asks for a user input for a percentage and then have a confirmation box ask them to confirm.

I’m currently exploring the prompt options and I’m sure I’ll have more questions later lol
Thanks again for your replies.

[Brendan]

Hi Jake,

I replied to your email about this topic, but I’ll reply here too with the code I wrote for you in case anyone else needs this type of code:

function Update_Prices() {

	var price_field_id = 'fld-.....';
	var records = form.getRecords();
	var price_increase_percent = 0.05;
	
	for (var index = 0, count = records.length; index < count; index++){
		var rec = records[index];
		var current_price = rec.getFieldValue(price_field_id);
		var new_price = current_price + current_price * price_increase_percent;
		rec.setFieldValue(price_field_id, new_price);
	}
	form.saveAllChanges();

}

Update_Prices();

[John Cranney]

It does make sense, thanks.

I was trying to get it to work using a script and I think I found some odd behaviour.

Say I have a linked form (stuff_link_id) and a table that I want to display a view of records in that table (stuff_table_id). If I click the checkmark button as you mention above, I get a copy of the selected stuff_link record in my table, with values magically populated.

However if I run the following (which I was hoping would populate the table with a view of whatever is linked in link) it deletes the record from link and moves it to table. Is that intentional? I expected it would do the same magic population. I’ve got a workaround which is to use duplicate() but I need to manually set all the columns.

var records=form.getRecords();

for (var rec of records){
for (var stuff_rec of rec.getFieldValue(stuff_link_id)) {
rec.addRecordToField(stuff_rec,stuff_table_id);
}
}

document.saveAllChanges();

[David Gold]

I’ve had a go at some Javascript but can’t get it to work. Basically I want it to take a search term off the clipboard, do a search and get the record ID for the found item and then copy that to the clipboard. It isn’t working so could someone tell me what I have done wrong?

var myForm = document.getFormNamed(‘Scopus RE’);
var records = myForm.getRecords();
var search_term = Utils.copyTextFromClipboard();
var result_count = 0;
var results = [];
var selected;

function search_records( haystack , needle ) {

var name_id = ‘fld-90984efc3585456ab56763adff0a5228’;
var rec;

for (const rec of haystack) {
if ( rec.getFieldValue( name_id ).toLowerCase().includes( needle.toLowerCase() ) ) {
results.push( { name: rec.getFieldValue( name )
} );
result_count++;
}

}

if( result_count == 0 ){
console.log( ‘No results found!’ );
}else if( result_count > 1 ){
multiple_results();
}else{
copy_record.getId( results[0] );
}

}

[Daniel Leu]

I would use something like this:

if (typeof search !== 'undefined'){
	var records = search.getRecords();
} else {
	var records = form.getRecords();	
}

This doesn’t address the corner case where search exists but doesn’t contain any records, eg records.length == 0.

I wouldn’t use record in var record = ... since that is a predefined value.

[David Schwane]

I have this script that returns a random record regardless if I’m on a form or a saved search. Works great but I know using try catch this way is not correct. What is a better way to resolve if I’m trying to get a form recordset or search recordset?

Random_Record();
try {
var records = search.getRecords();
}
catch (err) {
var records = form.getRecords();
}
var record = records[Math.floor(Math.random() * records.length)];
form.selectRecord(record);


[Brendan]

Try this:

function Diff_Calc() {

	let records = form.getRecords();
	let value_id = 'fld-ee301521ec6549aa9a657a0b457a3e5e';
	let difference_id = 'fld-816a0c97ff40447d9e13fb14d3dfc912';

	let first_rec = records[0];
	var prev_value = first_rec.getFieldValue(value_id);
	
	if (prev_value == undefined) {
		prev_value = 0;
	}
	
	first_rec.setFieldValue(difference_id, 0);
	
	for (var index = 1, count = records.length; index < count; index++){
	
		let rec = records[index];
		var value = rec.getFieldValue(value_id);
		
		var diff = value - prev_value;
		rec.setFieldValue(difference_id, diff);
		
		prev_value = value;

	}
	form.saveAllChanges();
	
}

Diff_Calc();

[Goutalco]

Hello everybody,

Since the number of dictionaries is significant the import of images for every page of the dictionary blows up my Tap Forms 5 document to a size > 40 GB. So I opted for the second option, i.e. searching for a root and opening the dictionary as a PDF file.

The solution suggested by Brendan by setting up a Website Address field which when clicked will launch the default PDF Viewer was not working for me. I got the following Error:

The application “Tap Forms 5” does not have permission to open “Test.pdf.”

So I found another solution which opens the PDF Viewer via a form script and tells the default PDF viewer to open the dictionary on the page that contains the term searched by the user.

In case anybody is confronted with a similar problem, i.e. searching for alphabetically arranged items in PDF files, I share my script.

var root;

var user_input = function Show_Page(ok) {
	if (ok == true) {		
		// Variable for the record searched by root
		var page_for_root;
	    
	        // Getting the pages (records) of the dictionary
		var pages = form.getRecords();
		
		// Getting the id of the field that takes the 
		// first root present on a page
		var root_1_id = 'fld-8ab2fc88535e49dbb60df845f4157590';

		// Getting the id of the field that takes the last root      
                // present on a page
		var root_2_id = 'fld-fa1b6724b80f4780b1779ab4ef098c75';

		
		// Looping through the pages
		for (var index = 0, count = pages.length; index < count;
                index++){
			
			// Getting the first root present the current page
			var root_1 = pages[index].getFieldValue(root_1_id);
			
			// Getting the last root present the current page
			var root_2 = pages[index].getFieldValue(root_2_id);
			
			// Compare root to root_1 and root_2
			var compare_1 = root_1.localeCompare(root, 'ar')
			var compare_2 = root_2.localeCompare(root, 'ar')

			// Try to get the first page that contains root 
                        // and leave the loop in this case
			if (compare_1 <= 0 && 0 <= compare_2) {
				page_for_root = pages[index];
				break;	
			}			
		}
		
		// If there is at least one page that 
                // contains root, show the first one
		if (!(page_for_root === undefined)) {
		      // Getting the URI for the dictionary
                      // file (with appropriate page number) 
                      // stored in DevonThink
		      var devon_id = 'fld-16ada2521a864aae8646222a6661a422';
    		      var devon = page_for_root.getFieldValue(devon_id);   		
    		      // Open the dictionary on the the requested page 
    		      Utils.openUrl(devon);
    		      // Go to the page (record) of the dictionary 
                      // in Tap Forms 5
    		      form.selectRecord(page_for_root);
  		} else {
  			console.log("Root not found");
  		}   
   } else {
          console.log("Cancel button pressed.");
   }
}

	
function Search_Dic() {
		
	let prompter = Prompter.new();
	prompter.cancelButtonTitle = 'Cancel';
	prompter.continueButtonTitle = 'OK';
	prompter.addParameter('Root: ', 'root')
        .show('Dictionary', user_input);
}

Search_Dic();

[Goutalco]

Thank you Brendan,

I converted all my dictionaries to images and using your hint I successfully imported these images to my document via a CSV file. This part was quite straightforward.

Now I like to create a search inside a form script via the Prompter class and since my understanding of JavaScript is at best rudimentary I really appreciate any comment to the script that I was able to generate using the help file.

var root;

var user_input = function printOut(continued) {
	if (continued == true) {
	
		var page_for_root;
	       // Getting the pages of the dictionary
		var pages = form.getRecords();
		
		// Getting the id of the field that takes the first root present on a page
		var root_1_id = 'fld-e724350c999d4fddafc12d258d407a3c';

		// Getting the id of the field that takes the last root present on a page
		var root_2_id = 'fld-a01b915c72904b2caba68eb8c2657055';
		
		for (var index = 0, count = pages.length; index < count; index++){
			// Getting the first root present the current page
			var root_1 = pages[index].getFieldValue(root_1_id);
			// Getting the last root present the current page
			var root_2 = pages[index].getFieldValue(root_2_id);
			
			// Compare the root the user is searching for to root_1 and root_2
			var compare_1 = root_1.localeCompare(root, 'ar')
			var compare_2 = root_2.localeCompare(root, 'ar')

		       // Try to get the first page that contains root and 
                       // leave the loop in this case
			if (compare_1 <= 0 && 0 <= compare_2) {
				page_for_root = pages[index];
				break;	
			}			
		}
		
		// If there is at least one page that contains root, show the first one
		if (!(page_for_root === undefined)) {
    		        form.selectRecord(page_for_root);
  		} else {
  			console.log("Root not found");
  		}   
   } else {
          console.log("Cancel button pressed.");
   }
}
	
function Search_For_Root() {
		
	let prompter = Prompter.new();
	prompter.cancelButtonTitle = 'Cancel';
	prompter.continueButtonTitle = 'OK';
	prompter.addParameter('Root: ', 'root').show('Enter a root', user_input);

}

Search_For_Root();

Thank you for your patience.

Cheers

• This reply was modified 2 years, 11 months ago by Goutalco.

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