update text box after losing focus

[bkranson]

I would like to use the onblur javascript feature when a user leaves a text box in the edit view of sugarcrm5.0.0b

As a test I added:

'displayParams' => array ('javascript'=>'{literal}onchange="alert(this.value);"{/literal}'),

to the <Sugar Install>/modules/<module>/metadata/editviewdefs.php
however the javascript never makes it to the code as I view it through the IE viewsource
I also changed the tabindex to confirm the code is not getting hung up in a cache file.

So to sum up I can confirm some of the parameters are making it to the final output, but the onblur is not.

Any help?

[dpatech]

Unfortunately the standard text field for Sugar does not look for a "javascript" displayParam. You can see this by looking at the include/SugarFields/Fields/Base/EditView.tpl file which is the smarty template used to output the HTML for a text field. You have a couple of options depending on what you are trying to do.

1. Edit the EditView.tpl to look for and include your "javascript" displayParam.
2. Create your own SugarField object and then set the "type" parameter to your new field type in the appropriate editviewsdefs.php entries.
3. Override the EditView for that particular module and include a snippet of javascript code that walks the form fields and add the onblur function to the fields after they have already been output.

Hope this helps. This is much easier in 5.0 than it was in the older versions.