Global function

[Steve-Kai Vyska]

Hi, everyone and happy easter,

Using piclists, you can set them to to Document, so that you can access them from every form. is there somehow a possibility to make the same with functions?

i have several function, which I need to use in several forms. actually I copy them to each script I need it in. Is there some way to declare it onetime and use from every script?

Greetings 🐣

Steve

[Daniel Leu]

Yes, there’s the runScriptNamed('common functions') command. This will execute the named script. If such a script only contains functions and definitions, then they will be directly accessible from you script. But if the script contains a function call, it would be executed too.

To prevent that, I use following structure at the end of the file:

if (!scriptName == "common functions"){
   // function call to entry point of script
   main();
} else {
   console.log("Script " + scriptName + " loaded");
}

For a document script use document.runScriptNamed('common functions') and for a form script use document.getFormNames('script form').runScriptNamed('common functions').

As you see, you can put scripts in a common form where you can pull them from. I do this with my scriptHandler helpers.

Cheers, Daniel

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