How to order or set default option for Mass Update select2?

Not sure I follow.  Are you saying you want the records updated in a certain order?

No, sorry, I am trying to order the list of fields available for mass update, or at least be able to set what the first one is, so that as soon as they open the mass update the selected field in the dropdown is "Assigned To" instead of Request Type as it shows now.

Thanks,
FrancescaS

Ahhh, yeah.  You would have to override the clients/base/views/massupdate/massupdate.js and make changes to the setMetadata() function.

In there there is

fieldList = metadataModule.fields;

You could reorder it after that.

Thank you Ken Brill

I was able to sort the options.meta.panels[0].fields in the initialize of the MassupdateView.

FrancescaS

Hi Francesca Shiekh, sorry to re-use this thread, but do you know if there's a way to have multiple default fields in the Mass Update panel? 

Regards,

Rafael

Hello Rafael Pedrosa, I have not tried defaulting multiples.

Perhaps you can look at clients/base/views/massupdate/.

to see if you can find some clues, it would basically make sense to me that if you could set the fields you want to default as the first ones in your list, then you could render and trigger the "Add Field" action (the + sign on the mass update), to render multiples.

For what it's worth, here is the code I used to sort the options to have assigned user at the top of my list. By default when I add another field to update using the +, the next item in the list is the one that appears defaulted.

({
  extendsFrom: 'MassupdateView',
  initialize: function(options){
    this._super('initialize', [options]);
    var fields = options.meta.panels[0].fields;
        newfields =[],
        option1 = ''; 
    if (!_.isEmpty(fields)) {
      var i = 0;
      _.each(fields, function(field){
        if(!_.isEmpty(field) && field.name == 'assigned_user_name'){
          //start a new array with assigned_user_name as the first element
          newfields.push(field);
          //remove assigned_user_name from fields
          fields.splice(i, 1)
        } 
        i++;
      });
      //add all the other elements to the new list
      options.meta.panels[0].fields = newfields.concat(fields);
    }
  }
})

I hope this helps you figure it out, do post your solution when you find it. 

FrancescaS