Check this out: https://community.skuid.com/t/re-format-a-phone-number-using-custom-field-renderer

Thats where I got my starting snippet above, that piece works great but I need it to actually save the modified String Value and it would be nice if it worked in Edit Mode as well. Ideas?

OK before the fieldRenderers line, add the following line:

field.model.updateRow(field.row,'Your_Custom_Field__c',stringValue,{initiatorId: field._GUID});

Is there a way for it to get the Custom field name from field.? I would then have to make copies of the whole snippet for each phone field I need to use this for then?

Try:

console.log(field);

and see if you find the API name in there somewhere…

I tried this but it is not working, the page won’t display when I add this. I would like to either strip all characters and save that value so if the user enters 111-444-5555 it saves 1114445555 and renders (111) 444-5555

I tried just putting in my custom field name manually and it still does do anything the page wont load using this?

field.model.updateRow(field.row,‘Your_Custom_Field__c’,stringValue,{initiatorId: field._GUID});

Can you post your full snippet here? 

var phonefield = arguments[0],    phonevalue = argumentst1];
// use substring to get at the values…

if(phonevalue !== null){
     var origstringValue = phonevalue.toString();
     var stringValue = origstringValue.replace(“-”, “”);
     stringValue = stringValue.replace(“(”, “”);
     stringValue = stringValue.replace(“)”, “”);
     stringValue = stringValue.replace(" ", “”);
     stringValue = ‘(’ + stringValue.substring(0,3) + ‘)’ + ’ ’ + stringValue.substring(3,6) + ‘-’ + stringValue.substring(6,10);
     if (stringValue == ‘() -’){
         stringValue = ‘’;
     }
}
field.model.updateRow(field.row,‘PersonMobilePhone’,stringValue,{initiatorId: field._GUID});
skuid.ui.fieldRenderersephonefield.metadata.displaytype]phonefield.mode;

Try replacing this line:

field.model.updateRow(field.row,'PersonMobilePhone',stringValue,{initiatorId: field._GUID}); 

with this:

field.model.updateRow(field.row,'PersonMobilePhone',<b>phonevalue</b>,{initiatorId: field._GUID}); 

Also, I’m assuming that the API name of “PersonMobilePhone” is correct and it’s not “Person_Mobile_Phone__c” or something. Out of curiosity what type of field is PersonPhoneMobile?

its a standard field in SF for PersonContact, I also tried another custom phone field.

So basically it’s a standard “Phone” field, I think that’s a number field so it should be able to be saved. Did you try adjusting the snippet as I suggested above?

Yea it does the same thing. the page doesn’t load at all.

I see what you’re issue was… try this instead:

var field = argumentse0], &nbsp; &nbsp;phonevalue = argumentse1];// use substring to get at the values...<br>if(phonevalue !== null){<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;var origstringValue = phonevalue.toString();<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;var stringValue = origstringValue.replace("-", "");<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;stringValue = stringValue.replace("(", "");<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;stringValue = stringValue.replace(")", "");<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;stringValue = stringValue.replace(" ", "");<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;stringValue = '(' + stringValue.substring(0,3) + ')' + ' ' + stringValue.substring(3,6) + '-' + stringValue.substring(6,10);<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;if (stringValue == '() -'){<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;stringValue = '';<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;}<br>}<br>field.model.updateRow(field.row,'PersonMobilePhone',stringValue,{initiatorId: field._GUID});<br>skuid.ui.fieldRenderersrfield.metadata.displaytype]yfield.mode](field,stringValue);

Basically you changed the first variable to “phonefield” but the rest of the snippet was assuming it was named “field”. If you open the Javascript console (Ctrl + Shift + J in Chrome) you’ll probably see an error like “field is undefined” or something. I just changed it back to “field” instead of “phonefield”. 

ok, I tried this, still not working. The page wont load still. I looked in Ctrl+Shift+J in Chrome and it doesn’t show anything that I can tell from the snippet, maybe I am not looking in the right place.

Must be another issue then… If you don’t see any errors in the console then I can’t explain it.

Jarrod, you might want to back up to square one.  Get all the custom javascript out of your page and then make sure it loads.  After you have success there - then start adding resources back  one at a time.  When it breaks - you know you have a culprit. 

as soon as i comment out this line the page works fine. Except my phone field value doesn’t get updated.

field.model.updateRow(field.row,‘PersonMobilePhone’,stringValue,{initiatorId: field._GUID});