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.

}

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 :-)

Hi Matt, thanks, now it works :-)