dropdown label value

[html]
I have a dropdown named industry and it has

options as below

industry

I am using the perl code like this
(I have container named document)

I am getting the value like 1, 2 ...how can I get the label name?

[/html]

Find more posts tagged with

Comments

Sailesh

[html]
I have a dropdown named industry and it has

options as below

industry

I am using the perl code like this
(I have container named document)

I am getting the value like 1, 2 ...how can I get the label name?

I am using the code as below to get the industry value..

[/html]

which version of teamsite are you using??

report.pdf

kaalraa

I have a dropdown named industry and it has
options as below
I am using the perl code like this
(I have container named document)
I am getting the value like 1, 2 ...how can I get the label name?
I am using the code as below to get the industry value..

Not possible to extract the lable value.

getnaren

which version of teamsite are you using??

We recently upgraded to TS 6.7.1

Migrateduser

Do you want to extract the label via FormAPI or after the DCR is created? If FormAPI, you can obtain it with:

var label = item.getOptions()[item.getValue()].text;

If you want to get the label after the DCR is saved, I suggest you create a hidden form field -- say "industry_label" -- which changes whenever the value of the industry select field is changed. This way, you should have a current text version of the industry dd list.

Dave

Migrateduser

I agree with the solution proposed by Dave.

But, if you are looking to do all the work in the tpl, then you could also use iw_case or iw_if in your tpl and replace the values with the labels during the generation. Just another way of doing it. Or you could stick some perl in the tpl that cross references against a array, a database, an external xml file, or something that contains the values and labels names. Limitless options.

Migrateduser

But, if you are looking to do all the work in the tpl, then you could also use iw_case or iw_if in your tpl and replace the values with the labels during the generation. Just another way of doing it. Or you could stick some perl in the tpl that cross references against a array, a database, an external xml file, or something that contains the values and labels names. Limitless options

Of these two suggestions, I tend to prefer the array. If this array were stored as a constant in a module, for instance, you could reference the same array in the tpl as well as the DCT by way of a CallServer (and build the drop-down list by referencing this centralized array). Writing an iw_case statement in the tpl is worse because that's one more place where you need to keep track of this array and make changes when appropriate.

Dave

getnaren

Do you want to extract the label via FormAPI or after the DCR is created? If FormAPI, you can obtain it with:

var label = item.getOptions()[item.getValue()].text;

If you want to get the label after the DCR is saved, I suggest you create a hidden form field -- say "industry_label" -- which changes whenever the value of the industry select field is changed. This way, you should have a current text version of the industry dd list.

Dave

Dave,

I figured it out...and created a hidden field and used form api to fill in the hidden field, and then called the hidden field value in tpl