formAPI alternate item in replcant

I have a callout button attached to an item called 'ProductSort' that is within a replicant. The callout will need to read an item called 'CategoryURL' from the same replicant instance. so, I created a simple regex to change ProductSort to CategoryURL. However, it just doesn't seem to work.

itemName starts out as something like /Category[1]/ProductSort

I would expect the second alert to display /Category[1]/CategoryURL. Howeer, I always end up with ProductSort again. is there something obvious I am missing with my js regex?


function selectSortOrder(itemInst) {
        var itemName = itemInst.getName();
        var URL = itemName;
        window.alert("url:"+URL);
        URL.replace(/ProductSort/,"CategoryURL");
        window.alert("new url:"+URL);
        var URLitem = IWDatacapture.getItem(URL);
        URLval = URLitem.getValue();
        window.alert(URLval);
}

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Adam Stoller

I think you need to assign the replaced value:

function selectSortOrder(itemInst) {
var itemName = itemInst.getName();
window.alert("itemName: "+itemName);
var URL = itemName.replace(/ProductSort/, "CategoryURL");
window.alert("new url:"+URL);
var URLitem = IWDatacapture.getItem(URL);
URLval = URLitem.getValue();
window.alert(URLval);
}

--fish
Senior Consultant, Quotient Inc.
http://www.quotient-inc.com

JeremyH

D'oh!

Thanks Fish! I'm glad it was something that simple.