Setting/Clearing messages on the form and fields

There are multiple methods for setting and clearing messages within forms, both at the top of the user interface (similar to the behavior of the server-side APIs: gs.addInfoMessage() and gs.addErrorMessage()), and against specific fields.

These methods are: showFieldMsg(), hideFieldMsg(), showErrorBox(), and hideErrorBox().

These methods of the g_form API are extremely useful for communicating information to the user from client scripts or UI policies, such as whether or not a field meets certain validation criteria.

One such set of field-level methods of the GlideForm (g_form) API, are showFieldMsg() and hideFieldMsg(), and the nearly-identical showErrorBox() and hideErrorBox(). These APIs ...

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