xCP Initial Value for Drop-Down not working

Good morning everyone,

I'm using xCP 2.1 and I'm battling to get a drop-down's initial value to populate.

I have two business objects, "Document Category" and "Document Type".

Document Category has 1 attribute of type string.

Document Type has 1 attribute of type string and a relationship with Document Category.

On the edit page for Document Type, I've added a drop-down and populate it with a Real Time Query.

I've tried setting the object id of category and tried setting the category name, but it doesn't set the selected item to the value or id set.

I've tested setting a textbox with the object id so I'm sure I have the correct value.

I've also tried adding buttons that set the value when clicked, the textbox value is updated but the drop-down list doesn't change.

Has anyone else had this issue?

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JGPorteous

If anyone is interested, this is solved in xCP Designer Patch 08.

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JGPorteous

I've done a few more tests and found that a drop-down list which is populated via a picklist, set's the selected item when initial value is set.

This means it's probably something to do with the data service instance which doesn't allow the drop-down to select a default value or item in the list.

Any ideas????

JGPorteous

If anyone is interested, this is solved in xCP Designer Patch 08.

Shaik.Asif

Is there any possiblity that we can generate picklist labels in design time search selection. I have only xcp 2.1 designer but I do not set any design time or run time configurations. So, preview is also not working. Just I want a screen that displays picklist values at the time of designing of search page.

JGPorteous

Hi Shaik,

The picklist is an xml file which is deployed with the project.

For a dynamic list/drop down, you can use a Data Service which can be bound to a real time query or direct DQL, this way it will be dynamic.

Good luck,