Forms List Item

[Dagon]

This is something that ought to be extremely easy to do and I'm sure there has to be a way of doing it, but the Forms 6i help refuses to tell me how.

I want to get the label associated with the currently selected list item (not the value - I know you can get that with :block.list_item). There is a built-in GET_LIST_ELEMENT_LABEL, but this requires the index of the list element. The question is: how do I find out the index of the currently selected list element ?

 

[RJSHA1]

Hi there - I cannot remember exactly what the built in is but if you pull up the help for the built in you mentioned it should be one of the related ones; as I've used the function is a previous company. (Hope this helps)

 

[lewisp]

I usually create list items from a record group. You can use the Get_Group_Record_Number built-in to determine which element you want to retrieve.

Alternatively, you will have to loop round each element testing with Get_Group_Element_Value equal to the selected value, then read the label with Get_List_Element_Label.