From 3a36bed9e428d9ae2a4502037c45920f08bbff74 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Oleg Zharkov <oleg.zharkov22@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2021 23:48:08 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] fix saving fieldDirectoryUri in workflow

---
 client/src/mvc/ui/ui-file-source.js | 15 +++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/client/src/mvc/ui/ui-file-source.js b/client/src/mvc/ui/ui-file-source.js
index 1662bda55a1..9c037d191a4 100644
--- a/client/src/mvc/ui/ui-file-source.js
+++ b/client/src/mvc/ui/ui-file-source.js
@@ -45,7 +45,9 @@ var View = Backbone.View.extend({
     render: function () {
         const value = this._value;
         if (value) {
-            if (value.url !== this.$text.text()) {
+            if (typeof value == "string") {
+                this.$text.text(value);
+            } else if (value.url !== this.$text.text()) {
                 this.$text.text(value.url);
             }
         } else {
@@ -86,11 +88,20 @@ var View = Backbone.View.extend({
     _setValue: function (new_value) {
         if (new_value) {
             if (typeof new_value == "string") {
-                new_value = JSON.parse(new_value);
+                let parsed_value;
+                // if new_value is not a JSON, set it as String
+                try {
+                    parsed_value = JSON.parse(new_value);
+                } catch (e) {
+                    parsed_value = new_value;
+                } finally {
+                    new_value = parsed_value;
+                }
             }
             this._value = new_value;
             this.model.trigger("error", null);
             this.model.trigger("change");
+            this.trigger("change");
         }
     },
 });