Copy from Calculated Field to Multi Line Textbox

have a look on this https://community.nintex.com/t5/Nintex-for-SharePoint/Can-t-populate-text-control-with-calculated-value/m-p/72092/highlight/true#M59587

emha,

I am trying your solution and keep getting 'UpdateTextBox' is undefined when I preview the form. Here is what I am currently doing:

1. Modified calculated control formula to this:

UpdateTextBox(<Exististing formula>)

2. Added this snippet to Javascript section of form settings (Recipients is the field I want to update with calc field value)

function UpdateTextBox(inpval){
NWF$('#'+Recipients).val(inpval);
return inpval;
}

What am I doing wrong?

it should work this way....

hopefuly you haven't taken/copied "<Exististing formula>" literally and you've replaced it with your real formula...

have you copied function code to a global scope, ie. out of any function or event handler you might have already had in form settings.

have you checked developer consoile for any errors?

My existing formula is similar to this:

lookup("Field1","ID", parseLookup(ControlName,false), "Recipients")

And I put the code in the Javascript section of the form settings as in the attached screenshot.

I was getting an error saying "Recipients is undefined" with this code. So I used the "Insert Reference" to put the Recipients field in the code. And now it's back to the "UpdateTextBox is undefined" error.

Have you set "Recipients" as you javascript variable ID in the field settings? It should be under Advanced properties

Jack,

I got this copied over to a dev environment so I can save my work and not disrupt the live form that people are using.

I put "Recipients" in the javascript variable fields. That didn't seem to have any effect.

emha,

I opened the developer console, no errors. The only warning was this:

"The code on this page disabled back and forward caching"

To recap, here is what I currently have. There are no errors, and the calculated fields populates, but not the Recipients field.

This is what I'm using in the formula for the calculated field:

UpdateTextBox(lookup("ListName","ID", parseLookup(ControlName,false), "Recipients"))

This is the function defined in form settings:

function UpdateTextBox(inpval){NWF$('#'+Recipients).val(inpval); return inpval;}

aah, I realized just now your target field is multiline text box. the example is for single line text field.

setting multiline text value is bit or much more complex and depends on the exact type of the field

emha,

The type of multi line text is plain text. 

for plain text control the code should still work.

there must some other problem with your form....

are you able to debug through the code what's going on there?