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Re: Get the display name of the selected Drop Downlist box Instead of Value

paralyzedcitizen — Fri, 01 May 2009 10:37:00 GMT

An easier way to achieve this (in my opinion) is put both peices of informaiton into the value field seperated by a unique seperator like an underscore. eg.

Value Display Name

0_Patient Patient

1_Nurse Nurse

etc.

Then create two other fields which by default equal the value of the above field only using the string-before/string-after functions.

Re: Get the display name of the selected Drop Downlist box Instead of Value

davidair — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 06:09:00 GMT

You cannot. The display value is a pure view notion and view cannot be accessed by neither rules not scripting.

Your workaround is to define an aux data source based off an XML file where you will type the values for the dropdown. For example, it may look like this:

<data>
<option value="0">Patient</option>
<option value="1">Nurse</option>
...
</data>

Now you can bind your dropdown to this data source instead of typing the data in manually. Then when you look at /dfs:myFields/my:ComboReason, you can look up this value in the data source for the aux dom and find your string there.

A bit of an effort, but it works!

Good luck!

Dave

Get the display name of the selected Drop Downlist box Instead of Value

chandu2007 — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 05:53:55 GMT

Hi Guys,

I have a dropdownlistbox with 4 Items, which are entered manually like

Value DisplayName

0 Patient

1 Nurse

2 Doctor

3 Referral

Lets say user selects Nurse, I want to send Nurse to the database and not 1 but when I use the code

mainNav1.SelectSingleNode("/dfs:myFields/my:ComboReason", NamespaceManager).Value it returns 1 but I want to get the actual DisplayName, how can I do it plz let me know ASAP.

Thanks very much guys

Cheers

Chandra