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How to refer Javascript library in Basic Form

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Posted on by Manish R Sharma

I have an advanced form and in one of the advanced form steps, I have a subrid which allows me to add / edit child records. The subgrid opens a basic form.In this basic form I have some javascript. I also want to refer a javascript libarary (attached as a web-file), and it's functions in this basic form. However, I don't know what's the correct syntex to refer to this library. I tried adding it as

but it does not work. Note that this library is also being referenced in the advanced form step. I have no issues on that page because I am referencing the library in the web template for the advanced form.

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oliver.rodrigues 9,482 Most Valuable Professional on at

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Hi, how common are these "commongunctions.js"?

if they are common throughout all your Advanced Form, I would add this reference to the Web Page related to the Adv Form

if they are even more high level than that, and would be used your entire Site, I would say to reference in the Content Snippet Tracking Code
Manish R Sharma 96 on at

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Hi @OliverRodrigues , I have added it to the web page related to the advanced form, but when I try to call the function from the basic form (modal form on the subgrid of the advanced form), I get an error:
Uncaught ReferenceError: CBR is not defined
I am calling the function like this:
CBR.Common.dateValidator("cbr_dateofbirth", dateofbirth, "lessthan", today, "Date of Birth cannot be a future date.");
If I call this same function on the advanced form step (which has the subgrid), I do not get an error. It seem s that somehow the modal form cannot get the reference of the javascript file from the advanced form web template, or maybe my syntax is wrong. Any suggestions ?
Fubar 17 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

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Can't remember if doing it in the Page works or not, but worst case you can dynamically write it via JQuery in the provided JavaScript section

var script = document.createElement('script'); script.src='/yourfile.js'; script.type = 'text/javascript'; document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(script);

You can also probably embed a dataverse Web Resource (that contains the script src tag.) on the entity/basic form

Edit: if script src is in the Web Page content then think it may actually be a scope thing, if inside a document ready try accessing the function using parent.parent.yourfunctionname (or if not in doc ready this.parent.parent.yourfunctioname)