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Javascript Events on Standard Page Layouts
Hi everyone. I'm using the standard page layout (e.g. no VisualForce) with Contact records. I'm tracking email and a custom field for an external application's username. When someone creates a new Contact record and enters the contact's email address, I'd like that action (e.g. Javascript OnBlur()) to cause the username field to be pre-populated with the email address. I know how to do this with Javascript, but I'm wondering where the best place to put it is?
On the face of it, I thought I might write a VisualForce page containing the Javascript and add it to the standard layout in a section. But that would lead to wasted space on the page.
How have people handled this before? Are there any best practices?
Thanks!
Why not use workflow with a field update action? When the contact record is saved, the username field will be updated with email address value.
Hope that helps,
Sati
Thanks Sati. I had thought of that too, but this needs to be real-time feedback for the user. It's like the "suggest a username" functionality you often see when registering on a website...except on a contact record in Salesforce :)