How to extend field validation to a field value of a related record

Within the code that gets executed for the validation, you could try something along these lines to get the info about the related account:

var relAcctID = this.model.get('account_id');

var relatedAccount = app.data.createBean('Accounts', {id:relAcctID});

relatedAccount.fetch():

var acctType = relatedAccount.get('account_type');

if (acctType === 'Internal')

{

//the rest of your logic that tells Sugar it is valid/isn't valid.

}

Hi Angel,

Thank you! I tried your code, but it seems the account data is not yet available when the contact record is just being created.

The variable acctType returns "undefined".

Is there another way to do it?

Thanks,

Holger

I found out what was missing.

The account record needs to be retrieved using a function call  to request the data.

It looks like this:

var contType = this.model.get('contact_type_c');

var relAcctID = this.model.get('account_id');

var accountBean = app.data.createBean('Accounts', {id:relAcctID});

var request = accountBean.fetch();

request.xhr.done(function () {

    var acctType = accountBean.get('account_type');

    // show console output

    console.log("ID of account: " + relAcctID);

    console.log("type of account: " + acctType);

    console.log("type of contact: " + contType);

    // more code for validation

});

The data retrieved by the call is only available inside the request.xhr.done(function () call, so I put the logic there.

However, the variable contType is not available inside, even if I pass it by request.xhr.done(function (contType)

Does anyone have an idea?

Thanks,

Holger

Are you certain that contType is set to begin with?  I tried similar code and it works fine for me.  Also, I think your code can be simplified by passing a success callback to fetch function instead of attaching callback to xhr request object.  The danger there is you could override Backbone or Sidecar contributed callbacks.

http://backbonejs.org/#Collection-fetch

You can pass the fetch() call an options hash with success and/or error callbacks.

var accountBean = SUGAR.App.data.createBean('Accounts', {id:'...GUID...'});
var test = "test.";
accountBean.fetch({'success':function () {
    var acctType = accountBean.get('account_type');
    console.log(test);
    console.log(acctType);
}});

Hi Matt, thanks, now it works :-)