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Get the value from a selected dropdown in a list

  • April 18, 2018
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How can I get the value of the drop down field inside a list?

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Existing result:

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expected result:

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Best answer by burked

You can wrap the lookup you've built out in a parseLookup runtime function to strip out the lookup prefix.  I have it setup like below:

This will show on the form like this:

I'm using a calculated value control, but this can be done using a set value rule as well.

2 replies

Best solution at the moment, use replace function,

 


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  • May 2, 2018

You can wrap the lookup you've built out in a parseLookup runtime function to strip out the lookup prefix.  I have it setup like below:

This will show on the form like this:

I'm using a calculated value control, but this can be done using a set value rule as well.