Hi Lyle, The enum selection for ARValueStruct is an integer. If you want the label or string you need to derive the associated integer. There are two strings available. One is the "definition" string and the other is a view based label. In the English or - generally - default view the two strings are the same. You will need the ARLimits struct for the field in q through ARGetField. Then you can go through the list of strings and convert the string to an integer. This is the "definition" string. You will need to do much more to get the view based string. Caution. There are three types of enums (since 5.12 which was a major release!) - one of which has never been implemented (at least not by any clients). You determine the values and process the ARLimits is based on the enum type. Meta-Update handles all this of-course. And no special import code is needed. Import scripts are generally trivial to write - say two hours for a reasonably complex one. Cheers Ben Chernys
Senior Software Architect Software Tool House Inc. Canada / Deutschland / Germany Mobile: +49 171 380 2329 GMT + 1 + [ DST ] Email: <mailto:Ben.Chernys_AT_softwaretoolhouse.com> mailto:Ben.Chernys_AT_softwaretoolhouse.com Web: <http://www.softwaretoolhouse.com/> http://www.softwaretoolhouse.com A free notepad for Diary fields: <http://www.softwaretoolhouse.com/downloads/DiaryFieldEditor.htm> http://www.softwaretoolhouse.com/downloads/DiaryFieldEditor.htm An ARS API scripting tool used for migrations, integrations, imports, reports, extracts, batch jobs: http://www.softwaretoolhouse.com _____ From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Lyle Taylor Sent: December 22, 2009 8:48 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Retrieve Selection Field Values using API ** Hi all, Remedy 7.1 p5 I'm trying to write a type of specialized import program, and I've come across what may be a bug in the .NET API in setting the value of Selection Fields using the ID (numerical value) - it seems to be setting the fields to $NULL$ instead of the value I've supplied. I've found, however, that I can successfully set the value using a string, but I'm pulling the values that I'm setting from Remedy using the API, and it returns the ID rather than the string. So, I'm trying to figure out how I can get the string value (Selection Value) for a given ID for a selection field. I went back to the C API documentation, since that's the core of all the other APIs, and perhaps I just can't see it, but I couldn't find a way using the C API to do it either. Does anyone know if there is a way, using any of the APIs, to get the string value for a given ID for a selection field on a form? Thanks, Lyle NOTICE: This email message is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message. _Platinum Sponsor: rmisoluti...@verizon.net ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are"_ _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org Platinum Sponsor:rmisoluti...@verizon.net ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are"
