JavaScript: Reading, Writing and Storing Values

Reading values

Scripts can read values from the instance list like this:

myVariable = objListManager.Akey3\[0\];

See Visual and Programmatic Identifiers.

If the user has selected several entries in the instance list, you can read all the values in a loop like this:

    var i = 0;
    var strMessage = "";
    for (i = 1; i <= objListManager.TotalSelected; i++) 
    {
       strMessage += "Selected Employee " + objListManager.AKey3\[i\] + " "; 
    }
    alert(strMessage);   

Or from a field defined on a 5250 screen like this:

    MyVariable = GETVALUE("utxtEmployeeCode"); 

Writing values

The script can put values on the screen like this:

    SETVALUE("utxtEmployeeCode", "myText");   

Storing values

You can store values in Javascript variables and then read and write from them:

    Var MyString = ""; 
    MyString = objListManager.Akey3\[0\];    

These variables exist only while the script is running. To share information between scripts, you need to create and set a property for objGlobal:

    objGlobal.uLastValue = "anything";   

Then another script can read this value:

    myVariable = objGlobal.uLastValue; 

Getting script pieces quickly

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