How to get label of selected option of Selectionbox in Presentation template

Hi,
My datacapture.cfg contains one Selectionbox.

Is there any way to get label of the selected option in Presentation Template?

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ISCBorisB

Is there any way to get label of the selected option in Presentation Template?

Not without some coding. PT parses DCRs and DCRs retain only Values, not Labels.

You can for example get your Label in FormAPI onSave and populate DCRs' hidden Item, etc.
Alternatively you may find/parse corresponding DCT from your presentation template but the first
option is IMO much easier to implement

hitc

what about putting your labels into the values?

|item name="ind_content_type"|
|label|Content Type|select required="t"|
|option label='Calendar Event1' selected="t" value='Calendar Event1zzzzCONTENT_TYPE_EVENT_CALENDAR_ONE' /|
|option label='Calendar Event2' value='Calendar Event2zzzzCONTENT_TYPE_EVENT_CALENDAR_TWO' /|
|/select|
|/item|

and then just separate them in your tpl using a regex /(.*)zzzz(.*)/ where $1 will be the label and $2 the value

janaki

what about putting your labels into the values?

|item name="ind_content_type"|
|label|Content Type|select required="t"|
|option label='Calendar Event1' selected="t" value='Calendar Event1zzzzCONTENT_TYPE_EVENT_CALENDAR_ONE' /|
|option label='Calendar Event2' value='Calendar Event2zzzzCONTENT_TYPE_EVENT_CALENDAR_TWO' /|
|/select|
|/item|

and then just separate them in your tpl using a regex /(.*)zzzz(.*)/ where $1 will be the label and $2 the value

janaki

Thanks.
This can be done if all the values contain some text like "zzzz".Where as it wont work for the cases like

|item name="ind_content_type"|
|label|Content Type|select required="t"|
|option label='Calendar Event1' selected="t" value='ABC'/|
|option label='Calendar Event2' value='DEF'/|
|/select|
|/item|

Thank u frnds
Its done through javascript by setting label to hidden field in datacapture and accessing that field in presentation template.