Question

I’m writing an extension to the “Save” Command, where basically I want to validate certain fields and present a popup allowing the editor to select a given keyword or other values based on current date, a Release # and some other attributes.

I thought I was doing good progress until I finally figured out that $display.getItem() is returning the item as is stored in CM, not the current values that the editor may have changed.

Is there a built-in method to get me this information? Or do I need to parse the DOM to figure it out?

This is the code I currently have

var item = $display.getItem();
if (item.getItemType() == "tcm:16") {
   if (item.getSchema().getStaticTitle() == "Test Schema") {
      var content = $xml.getNewXmlDocument(item.getContent());
      var fieldXml = $xml.getInnerText(content, "//*[local-name()='NewField']");
      alert(fieldXml);
   }
}

It is working – I get the value of “NewField” – but this is the value the item had when it was loaded, not the current value.

Interestingly, item.getTitle() shows the current value of the Title field, so I hope there may be a way to achieve this for custom fields too.

Answer 1

I don’t know if this is the proper way to do it, but you could fire the “collectdata” event on the item – which will update it’s data with what has been entered on the editing screen so far.

var item = $display.getView().getItem();
item.fireEvent("collectdata");
$log.message(item.getXml());