Repeater: Open new item automaticly

[planmacher]

Hi! Hope somebody can help me ...

I don't want the user to have to click on the "add new repeater item link" but would like to open it automaticly when loading the edit page. (Best would be, if this only happens if the new item would be the first item) 

Tried to do it with triggering the click of the add-new-item-link with javascript. But this does'nt seem to work. My java script knowledge is really poor :-(

Or do I just missed something in the settings of the repeater-field???

Thanks for any feedback!

[Robin S]

This should do the job:

$(window).load(function(){
    var $repeater_wrap = $('#wrap_Inputfield_YOUR_REPEATER_FIELD_NAME');
    if($repeater_wrap.length && !$repeater_wrap.find('.InputfieldRepeaterItem').not('.InputfieldRepeaterNewItem').length) {
        $repeater_wrap.find('.InputfieldRepeaterAddLink').trigger('click');
    }
});

It won't work for nested repeaters though - for that you'd have some more work to do, ensuring you get direct child elements of $repeater_wrap, and dealing with the fact that inputfields inside a repeater item have changed names. 

But it may not be such a good idea to open a new repeater item on page load. The issue is that you are actually creating a new repeater item when you do this, so that if the user saves without filling out the repeater fields you will end up with a blank item. And if any of the fields in the repeater are required the user will see error messages.

[planmacher]

On 10.8.2017 at 11:35 PM, Robin S said:

But it may not be such a good idea to open a new repeater item on page load. The issue is that you are actually creating a new repeater item when you do this, so that if the user saves without filling out the repeater fields you will end up with a blank item. And if any of the fields in the repeater are required the user will see error messages.

Thanks alot and please excuse my late response!!
You are right - not a good Idea - I realised it by myself, that there is an new repeater Item created by opening the input mask. Nevertheless its good to know, how to do it - will give it a try - and its great to see, that there is such a great community with a lot of help here.