A tiny library of helpful functions for working with Nintex Classic Forms for SharePoint on Premise.
The code that Nintex Classic Forms is built upon has accumulated a lot of peculiar quirks and gotcha's over the years. Because not everybody wants to spend their time digging around JavaScript files in the hopes of figuring out just why their form explodes whenever they hide a Repeating Section, I have attempted build out this small utility that should fix some of the inherent problems left behind and offer a few functions that you can use to do things that might otherwise drive you mad.
The goal is to create a baseline experience that should work across most SharePoint / Nintex versions, and all browsers.
- For the Form incorrectly calculating its size whenever you show / hide a control or add / delete a new row
- For Repeating Sections destroying their Height whenever they are hidden
- For Controls inside of Repeating Sections that lose association to custom Validation Rules whenever a new Row is Added
- For when a Responsive Forms required library (NF) won't loading correctly in Classic Forms
- pageIsReady: A boolean that is set to true once the form has entered what it considers to be its ready state
- formType: An object that can be used to determine if the form is in Edit, Display, New, or Preview Mode
- getControlValueByName: Returns a jQuery object containing the control of the name you passed in (assuming it exists)
- getControlByEval: Returns a reference to a control if a Formula Reference (literally (with quotes): "{Control:Self}"} is passed into it. Mostly for advanced users who need to know which control they are currently evaluating during a rule's (Validation or Formatting) execution
- getAssociatedLabelForControl: Returns the first Label that has been associated to the passed Control (if an association is found)
- getAssociatedControlForLabel: Returns the associated Control of a given label (in ALL Form View Modes!!!)
- getLabelText: Returns a string of a given Label Control's text
- pageIsValid: Returns true if all of the Validation Rules pass or the form is in a non-editable mode type
- RepositionAndResizeOtherControlsAndFillerContainerHeight: A normalization reference to the Out-Of-Box (Nintex provided) function of the same name that was put into a different library after a particular version of Nintex Forms.
- To re-enable the browser's built-in spellcheck!!! (if you want it that is)
If you find any problems with this library, feel free to yell at me. Any further libraries that I make for Nintex Classic Forms will most likely be built with this library in mind as a dependency (unless stated otherwise). Got a different question about Nintex? Why not come join the Nintex Community forums @ https://community.nintex.com/
Remember to test this in a safe environment before using it on your production servers! I take no responsibility for any destroyed Nintex Installations, SharePoint Explosions, or Database Collapses as a result of its use ;) ♥