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I get an error after attempting to update an item SharePoint 2013. This one is a bit of a challenge since it's referencing a different file.

var siteUrl = _spPageContextInfo.webAbsoluteUrl
var clientContext = new SP.ClientContext(siteUrl);
var oList = clientContext.get_web().get_lists().getByTitle('Document Approval');
var oListItem = oList.getItemById(promise.responseJSON.d.results[0].ID);

oListItem.set_item('Role Status', roleStatus); 
oListItem.update();

clientContext.executeQueryAsync(
 Function.createDelegate(this, this.onAddSucceeded),
 Function.createDelegate(this, this.onAddFailed)
);

I get the folllowing error that says "SCRIPT5007: Unable to get property 'apply' of undefined or null reference. File: ScriptResource.axd, Line 5, Column: 298"

Any ideas why?

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Most likely you reference the wrong function in your executeQueryAsync. Instead of using Function.createDelegate just pass the reference to your functions: 

clientContext.executeQueryAsync(onAddSucceeded, onAddFailed);
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  • That worked like a charm. Thank you! Any more explanation of why 'Function.createDelegate' did not work?
    – JustMe
    Oct 4, 2018 at 13:54
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    You referenced this.onAddSucceeded in Function.createDelegate. I bet if you put console.log(this.onAddSucceeded) it will print undefined. In other words, you've tried to set undefined function as your success \ failure handler.
    – Sergei Sergeev
    Oct 4, 2018 at 14:01
  • Ok. That makes sense. I'm assuming it's also because those function are not part of the 'clientContext' object?
    – JustMe
    Oct 4, 2018 at 14:32
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    technically they're not part of this. however, I don't know what is this in your application, because you haven't provided full code snippet.
    – Sergei Sergeev
    Oct 4, 2018 at 14:35
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As compared from the Microsoft Document

oListItem.set_item('Title', 'My Updated Title'); // both the parameters of set_item function accepts string where the first string parameter denotes the field name and the second string parameter denotes the value of the item to be set.

Your code:

oListItem.set_item('Role Status', roleStatus);  // make sure roleStatus is a string

There's already an answer to this issue in the following post Unable to get property 'apply' of undefined or null reference

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  • roleStatus is not the problem. It's a variable that grabs different values based on the item selected. It's dynamic, so it works fine. Thanks though.
    – JustMe
    Oct 4, 2018 at 13:56

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