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How do I access event information in custom script actions?

When an event has been added to a component in FormMaker, there are a number of properties made available to any 'Custom Script' actions you may define for the event.

These properties are all accessed through the objEventSource object, and are detailed in the table below. Please note that not all of these properties will apply for page level and external events.

Property	Description
option	Indicates what this event was registered against. Valid values are 'field', 'label', 'group', 'grouplabel', 'page' and 'external'
event	The javascript event object
value	The id of the field or group that this event was registered against
repeatId	If the component that the event is registered on is contained within a repeat (eg in a table structure) then this property will contain the id of the specific entry within the repeat (eg the row) that the event was fired for. The 'value' id needs to be prefixed with this string to get the full id of the HTML object.
field	The HTML object (eg text box) that the event was defined against. This is often the component you are interested in, and can usually be accessed with the 'this' keyword.
component	This is the HTML component that was the target of the event. This may or may not be the same as the 'field' due to event bubbling. For example if an onclick event is defined against a group, and the user clicks on a contained text box, this property would reference the textbox, where as the field property would contain the HTML element for the group (eg a DIV)