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Is it possible to get all the choices from a choice field when I use a SmartObject on a view?

  • January 26, 2026
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Hello guys,

maybe you could help me. I need to grap the values from a choice field and want to popluate them in a dropdown field, but I didn’t find a suitable to do that with a smartobject. Is it possible? If yes, how?

 

Best regards

Matthias

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ScottCaseIT
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  • January 26, 2026

@Matthias Amazing Tech - Can you clarify what you mean exactly? When you say grab the values from a choice field and populate a dropdown, what exactly is it that you are attempting to accomplish?

Are you wanting the selections in the choice field to impact how the drop-down list is populated like a filter scenario, or do you want to literally populate the drop down with what is selected in the choice field?

The goal is unclear. 


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Hello ScottCasIT,

I only want to popluate all the values in a dropdown field from a choice field in a sharepoint list.

I’m not sure if that is possible in K2?

 

Best regards

Matthias

 

 


ScottCaseIT
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  • January 26, 2026

So, the choice list in SharePoint not smart forms? 

If I remember correctly there may be a Smart Object that is created that will be representative of the hard coded choice values in SharePoint. You could then use that smart object to populate your dropdown list in a Smart Form.

You might want to view this article to give you some ideas on how to address your use case. 

How To: Working with SharePoint Lists and Data | Community


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Hello Scott,

honestly, I don’t understand the instructions. If I use get metadata, it won’t return any values. could explain me, how I can get hard coded values from a choice field like A, B, C and populate it in a dropdown field on a smartform. That’s what I like to achieve.

 

Thanks in advance!

 

Best regards

Matthias


ScottCaseIT
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  • January 28, 2026

Hello Scott,

honestly, I don’t understand the instructions. If I use get metadata, it won’t return any values. could explain me, how I can get hard coded values from a choice field like A, B, C and populate it in a dropdown field on a smartform. That’s what I like to achieve.

 

Thanks in advance!

 

Best regards

Matthias

Unfortunately, I don’t have a SharePoint environment setup to try to prototype this out to work out the finer details.