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[Brendan]

Hi Rocky,

This is supported, but you need to get the Script object first.

Try this:

var script = form.getScriptNamed("My Script");
var scriptName = script.name;
console.log(scriptName);

See if that works for you.

But also, there is a built-in variable called scriptName that you could simply access to get the name of the currently executing script.

So just try:

console.log(scriptName);

[Rocky Machado]

Hi Brendan – I know I can hit the refresh button to recalculate all my formulas on a form or have my transaction appear in a search. Is it possible that you could expose the recacluate feature in the Javascript API. The reason I am asking is that about 95% of my data entry is done thru data uploades and it would be nice to execute the recalculate feature in the code. So that I don’t need to remember to hit the recalculate button all the time.

thanks,
rocky

[Rocky Machado]

Hi Team – trying to use the following snippet of code to get the script name var scriptName = script.name; but I keep geting message “Can’t find Variable: script” Is the script API no longer supported?

thanks,
rocky

[Sam Moffatt]

I must have missed escaping the backticks when I originally posted it, the forum catches them and turns them into the code tags even though it’s inside a code environment already. @daniel_leu is correct though, my scripts are all up on GitHub so you can grab them there.

[Daniel Leu]

I would download the latest version of the script from Sam’s github repository: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pasamio/tftools/master/scripts/js/logger.js

Cheers, Daniel

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See https://lab.danielleu.com/tapformspro/ for scripts and tips&tricks

[Rocky Machado]

Hi Sam – Reallly like your Looger module. I’m getting an error when trying to compile it. It seems it does not like the “code” tag. Am I missing someting? or did the “code” tag get placed when you copied the script to the site? Also, Have you mofified the script since this last post? If so, can you attach the script?

it failing here.

this.logMessage( <code>Caught error: &quot;${error}&quot; at ${error.line}, ${error.column} </code>);

thanks,
rocky

[Victor Warner]

Brendan,

Thank you very much for adding the following:

Added list of form layouts to the Layout menu. Changes dynamically depending on selected form.

I hope you can continue to improve this so that it will be possible to be more easily change the order of layouts (in a similar way to Forms) which is currently not possible and also introduce a categories feature (in a similar way too to Forms).

There are two specific queries on the update:

Added new Markdown field type. This is a “note” type field where you can type in markdown and Tap Forms will render it for you.

Is the flavour of Markdown you are using the most basic kind? That is not MultiMarkdown or any variant (such as supporting tables)?

Added script functions to let you get and select custom layouts.

Could you provide the syntax for these new script functions as they do not appear present on this page https://www.tapforms.com/help-mac/5.3/en/topic/javascript-api.

[T.L. Ford]

The for loop changes to add the time:

	// loop through the songs records	
	for (var index = 0, count = songs.length; index < count; index++){

		// get the Song Title from the current record
     	var song_title = songs[index].getFieldValue(song_title_id);
     	
     	// get the song time from the current record
		var song_time = songs[index].getFieldValue(time_id);

		// if a song title exists
		if (song_title) {

			// if we have a time, go ahead and add it to the song_title string
			if (song_time) {
				// shorthand for  song_title = song_title + ", " + song_time
				song_title += ", " + song_time;
			}

			// add the song title to the array
			song_titles.push(song_title);
			
		}
	}

The javascript term is “string concatenation” – fancy for “adding two strings together” (strings are javascript’s way of saying text). While I’m at it… an “array” is javascript for “a list of something”.

[Victor Warner]

T,

Thank you very much for providing the example – it helped me understand where I was going wrong in implementing Brendan’s example (failure to pick up the difference between Song Title (the form) and Song Titles (the field name)) – without reference to the database I did not appreciate the difference.

I cannot say I understand some of the code but I should be able to implement it at least.

One query on an addition. If I wished to display a second field in the resulting script, how would I do this?

For example, if I added a time field (as a text field) and then instead of display, e.g.

Barry Went Out
Bee Bounce
Party On

but instead

Barry Went Out, 1:30
Bee Bounce, 2:30
Party On, 1:30

I understand how to get the id of the time field into the script (and how to write the code to format shown immediately above, just not how to get into this part of the script:

	// create an array to store the songs in
	var song_titles = [];

	// loop through the songs records	
	for (var index = 0, count = songs.length; index < count; index++){

		// get the Song Title from the current record
     	var song_title = songs[index].getFieldValue(song_title_id);

		// if a song title exists
		if (song_title) {

			// add the song title to the array
			song_titles.push(song_title);

Help with this part would be greatly appreciated. I attached the datebase with the added field.

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[Sam Moffatt]

If you have script, why not just have it add new entries to a table in the other form?

[Brendan]

T.L. I don’t mind one bit! I love it when customers help each other and it’s exciting for me to see what new things people want to use Tap Forms for. The scripting engine has been especially great because it opens up a whole world of possibilities for different ways to use Tap Forms.

[T.L. Ford]

Victor,

This looks like this. I modified Brendan’s code to add comments explaining each line of the Javascript. Working example attached.

Brendan – hope you don’t mind me adding things. I’m happily enjoying exploring your Tap Forms application and am learning new and better ways to do things.

– T

Edit: Technically it’s not the id of the song form, but the “link to form” field on the Genre form.

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[Victor Warner]

Sorry to highjack this thread, but it would be very helpful for beginners (such as myself) to have a worked example.

Would it be possible to provide a simple database showing an example of how this works, as I tried to follow the original’s posters requirement and adding a script field wit the code but I just get errors.

[David Oxtoby]

Cheers for that Sam, what i ended up trying and seemed to work for what i needed, was create a script field that reads all the entries in my table and create a formatted text return value (not shown on the booking form), and then in the linked invoice form, i have another script field that pulls from the linked form that new formatted return value and shows that instead.

A bit of a faff inserting tabs and padding to to get the formatting looking ok, but works for what i needed.

see screen shots for idea of what it looks like… The Venue Booking shows the rooms being hired, that has been output into a hidden field, which the Invoice breakdown then shows in another scripted field.

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[Sam Moffatt]

It sounds like you’ve got two forms already and you want the same table on the two different forms. I’d suggest adding a third form that has the same structure as your table field and then use a “Link to Form” with the “JOIN” type. JOIN uses a field value that is common between the two forms to automatically build the links. In your case I think a customer ID would be a reasonable link value because you can put that on all three forms and link it together.

The Link to Form behaves similar to the table so you should be able to get the same effect in both places relying upon the same data.

Now I have a feeling that you might need this in thee future but a trick you can do with JOIN fields is to use a calculation field to JOIN on. You can use a calculation field to combine the values of two different fields together (via CONCAT) and use that value. In your example I can imagine a customer at some point stopping a service at which point they shouldn’t get invoiced for it in the future but you might want to include it in their printed invoice. You could add a checkbox or other flag that you check and use as a part of the composite key. The downside of this approach is that older invoices if reprinted will look different, so let’s think about that.

A JOIN field is great because it automatically updates values for you. A JOIN field is unfortunate because it automatically updates values for you. Thinking about “what services does the customer currently have active”, what you could do is when you generate an invoice you use a script to manipulation a normal “Link to Form” M:M field instead of a JOIN field. You would need to write a script to handle creating a link from the third form we created above to do it.

Give the JOIN field a try and see how it works out for you, if you feel we need to go down a little deeper on the scripted approach then I can give you a hand with that too.