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Anonymous
February 17, 2020
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Accessing nested objects and arrays for SetItems method

  • February 17, 2020
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Hi,

I have a dropdown menu ("Dropdown1"), that I need to populate with options from the object I have defined below. How would I go about populating Dropdown1 with the names (Name1, Name2, & Name3) from the Class1 array?

var oClassList = 
{
    Class1:
    [
        {name: "Name1", company: "Company1", instructor: "Instructor1"},
        {name: "Name2", company: "Company2", instructor: "Instructor1"},
        {name: "Name3", company: "Company3", instructor: "Instructor1"}
    ],
    Class2:
    [
        {name: "Name1", company: "Company1", instructor: "Instructor2"},
        {name: "Name2", company: "Company2", instructor: "Instructor2"},
        {name: "Name3", company: "Company3", instructor: "Instructor2"}
    ],
    Class3:
    [
        {name: "Name1", company: "Company1", instructor: "Instructor3"},
        {name: "Name2", company: "Company2", instructor: "Instructor3"},
        {name: "Name3", company: "Company3", instructor: "Instructor3"}
    ]
};

 I tried the following code using the setItems method, but I couldn't get it to work:

this.getField("Dropdown1").setItems(oClassList.Class1.name);

 

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3 replies

try67
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try67Community Expert
Community Expert
February 17, 2020

You can do it like this:

 

var names = [];
for (var i in oClassList.Class1) names.push(oClassList.Class1[i].name);
this.getField("Dropdown1").setItems(names);

Karl Heinz Kremer
Community Expert
Karl Heinz KremerCommunity Expert
Community Expert
February 17, 2020

You would have to create a temp array variable that holds the names you want to assign to the dropdown. I would write a function that takes as arguments the class name and the class structure and then extracts the relevant names and returns them in an array variable that you can then use in the setItems() method. There is no direct way go go from the data structure you have to setting the dropdown values. 

Bernd Alheit
Community Expert
Bernd AlheitCommunity Expert
Community Expert
February 17, 2020

It must be an array. Read the documentation of setItems.

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