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

Question

Hi,

I am trying to extend the Developer Guide example "Adding Field Validation to the Record View" method 1

http://support.sugarcrm.com/Documentation/Sugar_Developer/Sugar_Developer_Guide_7.6/UI_Model/Views/Examples/Adding_Field…

I would like to work on the Contact record, but verify against a value from the related account.

For example, if the the user creates a new contact, and selects an account of type "internal", the UI should show an error and clear the account selection.

The above sample already gives me the framework, but I could not figure out how to access the type of the associated account.

How could this be done?

Best regards,

Holger

Holger Schmidt · Accepted Answer

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);
}});