Changing the Display of Multi Select fields using the Client Side API

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Changing the Display of Multi Select fields using the Client Side API

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This article has been prompted by a customer who had a requirement to change the default display of a multiselect field.  This article uses the Client Side API.

The default display of a field is shown below.

The default display shows the data in a comma seperated list.  The customer instead need to have the values of the multiselect shown in a vertical list, like in the image below:

To change the display needed a little bit of code that changed the HTML that was rendered.  This code was added to the custom content box of the screen, which in this example is the companyboxlong.

<script>
crm.ready(function () {

var myfield = crm.fields("comp_operatingcountries");
if (myfield.getMode() == "view")
{
re = /,/g;
myfield.text(myfield.text().replace(re, "<BR>"))
}
})
</script>

Note:  A regular expression has been used in the search and replace that changes the HTML to include the <BR> tags.  The target field is called comp_operatingcountries.

Comments
  • Excellent article Jeff.

    Very very useful. I get asked this a lot

  • Thank you Jeff.  This displays the selections perfectly.

  • Hi Jeff, this realy helpful. For the first look it works. But when you would change the details from the company, then you get some HTML Code. I hope you could here also a solution.

  • Christian,

    I have corrected the code, so that it only works in view mode.  :-)

  • Many thanks for this cool work.

    Christian

  • Much thanks for an extra incredible post.