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tedevang How do you escape an apostrophe in a Merge field when using Javascript button
I have a custom button which populates the account name on a custom activity field using Javascript OnClick. Works great except if the account name has an apostrophe. How would I escape any potential apostrophes from Account.Name in the following javascript?
navigateToUrl('00T/e?who_id={!Account.Primary_Contact_Lookup__c}&retURL={!Account.Id}&00N80000004QVPs={!Account.Name}');
Since you're doing Javascript there, single quotes and double quotes are interchangeable. So you can do
navigateToUrl("00T/e?who_id={!Account.Primary_Cont
act_Lookup__c}&retURL={!Account.Id}&00N80000004QVP s={!Account.Name}");
And that will work, unless the name has double quotes in it, which seems less likely.
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Since you're doing Javascript there, single quotes and double quotes are interchangeable. So you can do
navigateToUrl("00T/e?who_id={!Account.Primary_Cont
act_Lookup__c}&retURL={!Account.Id}&00N80000004QVP s={!Account.Name}");
And that will work, unless the name has double quotes in it, which seems less likely.
I was also facing the same problem. But finally got the solution. you can use {!JSENCODE(Account.Name)} for general custom button JS code and for URL , u can use urlencode() function which will handle unsafe charcters of javascript.