Render and save reference field value

Hmm, so it turns out my static resource wasn’t updating correctly. Cached or something? Let me get that sorted before anyone tries to answer!

Ok,

So, I’m getting the renderer to show the correct name, but the updateRow action isn’t working the way I’d expect.

My goal is to create a generic renderer which doesn’t have to know the id of the field. Here’s the code:

'renderUserId': function (field, value) {<br>if (!value) {<br>value = skuid.utils.userInfo.userId;<br>var fieldId = field.id;<br>var fieldName = fieldId.slice(0,-1) + 'r.Name';<br>field.model.updateRow(<br>field.row,<br>{<br>fieldId: value,<br>fieldName: skuid.utils.userInfo.name<br>},<br>{initiatorId: field._GUID}<br>);<br>}<br>skuid.ui.fieldRenderers[field.metadata.displaytype][field.mode](field, skuid.utils.userInfo.name);<br>}

The trouble is, this is just creating a two fields in the .data object of the model called “fieldId” and “fieldName”, not actually updating the fields themselves.

I have successfully used field.id in an updateRow action this way:
field.model.updateRow(field.row,field.id, value,{initiatorId: field._GUID});
But it seems like that’s not possible in the object notation for the field an value arguments, which I think is required to pass more than one field/value pair in the same updateRow(), correct?

Any thoughts on how to accomplish this?

Yes it is possible to pass a generic list of field/value pairs into updateRow, but the other part of this that you may be getting stuck on is setting the Reference field object — rather than passing in something like “Some_Field__r.Name”, you need to pass in a whole related object, e.g. “Some_Field__r” should be an object, like this:

if (!value) value = skuid.utils.userInfo.userId;<br>var fieldId = field.id;<br>var fieldRelationshipName = fieldId.slice(0,-1) + 'r';<br>var updatesToMake = {};<br>updatesToMake[fieldId] = value;<br>updatesToMake[fieldRelationshipName] = { Name:&nbsp;skuid.utils.userInfo.name };<br>field.model.updateRow(field.row,updatesToMake,{initiatorId: field._GUID});

Yes! Thanks, Zach.

As a simple matter of curiosity, is there a performance difference between building the updatesToMake object before or within the updateRow() call?

To confirm, if I update my syntax as follows, is it the same as what you suggested?

if (!value) {<br />value = skuid&#46;utils&#46;userInfo&#46;userId;<br />var fieldId = field&#46;id;<br />var fieldRelationshipName = fieldId&#46;slice(0,-1) + 'r';<br />field&#46;model&#46;updateRow(<br />field&#46;row,<br />{<br />fieldId: value,<br />fieldRelationshipName: {Name: skuid&#46;utils&#46;userInfo&#46;name}<br />},<br />{initiatorId: field&#46;_GUID}<br />);<br />}

There’s no performance difference per-se, the problem is that your approach is not doing what you think it’s doing and will not actually work 🙂

Definitely! 🙂 Thanks for the thorough explanation, Zach.