Auto open edit from list page

User logs in, sees own record in list page. I would like to have Edit automatically open in popup forcing the user to edit. The edit button on this list page currently works fine but users just skip past it / don't see it / blah blah.
I found this code in the manual for 9.7 (I'm on 9.6):

// get list of record IDs

var recsId = pageObj.inlineEdit.getRecsId();
// click Edit link

$("#editLink"+recsId[X]).click();

When I put this code in the Javascript Onload for the list page shouldn't the Edit page pop up automatically once the List page has loaded?