How to use the Sideview Utils updater tool to track activities by auto populating each event with two fields from a lookup.csv file?

[hartfoml]

I would like to use the Sideview updater tool to keep track of activities.

The lookup.csv would have fields for each event. I would like to have two fields automatically populated for each line.

I would like to auto populate the date & time for each record and the user how it is entered in the record.

Is there any way to use the Sideview updater tool and have these two fields auto populated?

[sideview · Accepted solution]

I looked into this and you would have to modify the code in update_lookup.js to accomplish this.

The key part, ie to actually prepopulate the given fields (I assume btw that you mean to prepopulate them whenever a user adds a new row) -- you'd have to add a customBehavior to the Multiplexed HTML module that represents the fields of the "Add New" form, and within that customBehavior implement the HTML module's optional "onHTMLRendered" method.

For the docs about customBehavior go to Tools > Other Tools and scroll to the bottom panel. And Sideview Utils itself has quite a lot of customBehaviors throughout that you can read as examples.

[hartfoml]

Thanks Much Nick for looking into this for me.

I will give it a whirl and se how it comes out. I have never done customBehaviors before. Thanks again for your time.