CRM 2011 Function to copy contents of Contact lookup to Name primary field of custom entity

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  OK I have been struggling with this stupid problem for 3 days and am going to ask for help.  To preface this, I am (obviously) not a Javascript expert...or even amateur.  My knowledge is pretty limited.  However, I don't have a backup and have to figure this out.
  
  So I am trying to accomplish what i thought would be a very simple and common task.  I have a custom entity called Resumes.  I would like the primary key/name field (new_name is field name) to be populated with lookup data from the Contact entity (new_applicantname is field name).  Because this seems like a common scenario, I was surprised that all the solutions I found so far present something much more complicated than what I think I need - ie: they add time/date to name, they work with arrays and option sets, they slice bread, etc.  I want to simply copy the contents of one field to another.
  
  I need this to work on Resume creation/onload, and if/when Resume is changed/onsave.
  
  I found the script below which works onload in IE, but not in Chrome.  It also works onsave in both IE and Chrome.
  
  The problem is that it concatenates the date/time, which I don't want.  I need the REsume name to match exactly with the Contact lookup name.
  
  
        function SetName(){
        var lookupField = Xrm.Page.getAttribute("new_applicantname");
  
        // Retrieve the Current Date
  
        var Now = new Date();
  
        // Convert the Date to a String
  
        var StringNow = Now.toString();
  
        // Set the Name         
  
        Xrm.Page.getAttribute("new_name").setValue(lookupField.getValue()[0].name + "-" + StringNow);
        }    
  
  
  I made changes to the script to come up with what i thought would be the logical, and much simplified solution, as follows:
  
        function SetName()
        {
          var lookupField = Xrm.Page.getAttribute("new_applicantname");
          Xrm.Page.getAttribute("new_name").setValue(lookupField);
        }
  
  But it doesn't work.  In both IE/Chrome, onload it says "This control only accepts strings or null as an input".  Is there something simple that I'm missing here?  Or should I just do this via a workflow?  Am I missing some kind of error handling, or do I need to pre-populate the field with a null variable before I copy the lookup data to it?
  
  Thank you in advance for any ideas/input.
  -Daniel
  
  BONUS POINTS: Also, anyone know why Chrome would run script above onsave but not onload?

  
  

  Tuesday, November 17, 2015 7:25 PM