[SalesForce] Custom Label in Javascript

I have a piece of Javascript in a Visualforce page. I would like to change the Status of a Case when a button is clicked invoking my Javascript function. I can't figure out the proper syntax for using a custom label from SFDC. Does anyone know how to accomplish this?

Javascript:

<script type="text/javaScript">
     sforce.connection.sessionId = "{!GETSESSIONID()}";
        function Escalate(){
           var confirmMsg = confirm("Are you sure you want to escalate this case to the Client?");
                var c = new sforce.SObject("Case");
                  if(confirmMsg == true){
                     c.id = "{!Case.Id}";
                     c.Escalate_to_Client__c = true;
                     c.Status = "{!$Label.Case_Status7__c}";
                  sforce.connection.update([c]);  
                  }
        }
</script>

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Are you sure that the custom label name ends with "__c "? Looks more like a custom field name. Try this:

c.Status = "{!$Label.Case_Status7}";

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This is a great question, and Custom Labels and the $Label global are the right place to start! Instead of evaluating Visualforce inside your JavaScript, you can do a little bit of JavaScript inside your Visualforce.

How do I get evaluated Visualforce variables into dumb static JavaScript?

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>

vf-js-bridging-component

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 :-)

[SalesForce] Escaping characters within AMPscript /Javascript hybrid

The issue is not because of the parenthesis, its because you are closing the string too early with an apostrophe in the title of your event.

title  : 'What's new in Software (SELECTdetails 4)',

The quick fix is just to escape the apostrophe's in the string when you set the title variable:

SET @Name = Replace(Field(@row, "Name"),"'","\'")

You probably also want to encode the URL because it's likely going to create an error as well:

SET @URL = URLEncode(Field(@row, "URL"))

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