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January 27, 2015
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An easy scripting question...

  • January 27, 2015
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Is there an API, or easy method, to get the numeric value associated with the string value of a Pick Field?

    Best answer by JoeBartlett

    Hi Sean,

    Have you looked at the imFieldBean? It has a method that sounds like it will do what you want:

    getPickFieldMappings()

    If getFieldType() is the value "pick", then this method will return a mapping of the display strings to the underlying numeric pick values.

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    DanR.1-Visitor
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    January 27, 2015

    Wouldn't using the im command work?

    im fields --hostname=<your-host> --fields=type,picks,name

    You could redirect it to a log file and extract the values from the pick types.

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    Sean-Trane1-VisitorAuthor
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    January 27, 2015

    That would be harder than what I'm doing at the moment; which is hard-coded string lookup tables. I was hoping that there was an easy API call to use instead of getFieldValue.

    I'm in a trigger script and need the numbers to perform calculations. So dumping the values to a log file really isn't a practical option.

    Thank you for the idea, though.

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    JoeBartlett21-Topaz IAnswer
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    January 27, 2015

    Hi Sean,

    Have you looked at the imFieldBean? It has a method that sounds like it will do what you want:

    getPickFieldMappings()

    If getFieldType() is the value "pick", then this method will return a mapping of the display strings to the underlying numeric pick values.

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    Sean-Trane1-VisitorAuthor
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    January 27, 2015

    Thank you, Joe. That will do it.

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