Offline persistence of formula field calculations
Please see previous discussion about formula fields and stale data.
To persist formula fields from the Javascript API, you must call calculateSaveFormulas.
var request = {
"type" : "calculateSaveFormulas",
"object" : "Some_Custom_Object__c", // the object type
"data" : {
// optional list of objectIds (must be of the same object type as specified.
"objectIds" : [ "a025000000iW9YuAAK", "a0250000005thYuAnp" ],
// optional where clause (additional way to select specific objects)
"whereClause" : "Type = 'Bodega' OR Type = 'Supermarket'",
// optional list of specific formula fields to calculate. If you don't pass this parameter, it will calculate and save all formulas.
"formulaFields" : [ "Total_Price__c", "Some_Other_Formula_Field__c" ]
}
};
bridge.sendRequest(request, function (responseData) { alert('Javascript got its calculateSaveFormulas response: ' + responseData); });
WARNING: this can be an incredibly expensive and slow operation if you do not specify any filter criteria. Therefore we recommend that you always include objectIds and/or whereClause parameters.
HTTP Callout API
The callout API is available for making HTTP(S) requests from the Pulsar platform and returning results to the HTML and javascript. Since custom HTML/javascript code is hosted as a local file within Pulsar, there can be issues using the normal XMLHttpRequest (XHR) or fetch methods to issue Cross-Origin requests to external services. This Pulsar API helps sidestep those problems.