Common JavaScript API Issues
Below is a list of common issues that many developers experience.
- data-entity attributes and entity names do not match. The same applies to all the other data-* attributes.
- view.start() was not called.
- When you call the function observer.bindAutoForm(...) you must pass in an object with the correct keys.
- The formId key has a capital I for Id - this is easily missed.
- The formId value is the id of the HTML form in your markup. It should not include the pound (or hash) symbol and cannot be any other kind of CSS selector (such as a classname). This is slightly different behavior from the AutoText component that accepts a CSS selector because it can work on multiple items with one call. The bindAutoForm function only works with one form.
- Always check the developer tools console of your browser in case any errors were introduced into the code.
- If the view is locked in another client view then any attempts to edit an input value will fail with an error message.