Activity Forums Salesforce® Discussions How can we access custom labels in javascript linked as separate static resource in Salesforce?

  • Kumar

    Member
    February 10, 2017 at 11:33 am

    Hi Mohit,

    Custom Labels and the $Label global can be used for this purpose! Instead of evaluating Visualforce inside your JavaScript, you can do a little bit of JavaScript inside your Visualforce.

    Load your Custom Labels into the platform using the normal interface,
    Create what I like to call a "JavaScript bridging component" that loads before your script, like so:

    <script>
    window.$Label = window.$Label || {};
    $Label.MyError = '{!JSENCODE($Label.MyError)}';
    $Label.MyPrompt = '{!JSENCODE($Label.MyPrompt)}';
    $Label.MyMessage = '{!JSENCODE($Label.MyMessage)}';
    </script>

    Now in your javascript (in a static resource) use the variables just as if they were VF without {!}

    <script src="{!URLFOR($Resource.ScriptZip, '/my.js')}">
    //NOTE: this example code is for clarity,
    //really he lives in the static resource
    function errorHandler() {
    console.log($Label.MyError);
    alert($Label.MyMessage);
    }
    </script>

    This is in the spirit of the platform: there is no need to interpret any variation on the token names and you can pluck the values straight out in your JavaScript without inventing anything.

    Hope this helps.

    • This reply was modified 7 years, 10 months ago by  Kumar.

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