Function validation drop-down menu

[ENE5CD9]

Hi
can someone please help me to solve this function?
I inserted this function in the "validation" drop-down menu:

if(event.value=="MORTGAGE LOAN"){this.getField("PERSONAL LOAN N").value=this.getField("BANK").value;}
if(event.value=="CREDIT OPENING"){this.getField("PERSONAL LOAN N").value=this.getField("BANK_2").value;}

The drop-down menu is called COMMITMENTQEQ
I inserted this function in the calculation script to make the text of the drop-down menu more readable this.getField("COMMITMENT TYPEQEQ").setItems(["MORTGAGE\nMORTGAGE","CREDIT OPENING"]);

When I select the text "OPENING\nCREDIT", the text "MORTGAGE\nMORTGAGE" always appears in the drop-down menu
When I select the text "MORTGAGE\nMORTGAGE", in the menu
the drop-down text always shows "MORTGAGE\nMORTGAGE"

Thank you for your help

[try67 · Accepted solution]

- It's not a good idea to use line-breaks in the items of a drop-down. It's an undocumented "feature", and it's buggy. I would avoid it.

- The strings in your setItems method don't match those in your validation script.

"MORTGAGE LOAN" != "MORTGAGE\nMORTGAGE"

- You have no default value in the Validation script, so when none of the two conditions are true, nothing happens to the target field, basically.

[try67 · Accepted solution]

- It's not a good idea to use line-breaks in the items of a drop-down. It's an undocumented "feature", and it's buggy. I would avoid it.

- The strings in your setItems method don't match those in your validation script.

"MORTGAGE LOAN" != "MORTGAGE\nMORTGAGE"

- You have no default value in the Validation script, so when none of the two conditions are true, nothing happens to the target field, basically.

[ENE5CD9]

ok
I'm sorry, I failed to understand one thing.
I have a drop down menu called CREDIT.
In the calculation script I inserted this function:
this.getField("CREDIT"). setItems (["LOAN\nPERSONAL","MORTGAGE\nMORTGAGE","OPENING\nCREDIT"]);
When I go to select from the drop down menu the text
"MORTGAGE
MORTGAGE"
or the text
"OPENING
OF CREDIT",
I always get the text
"LOAN
PERSONAL".

Is there an error in the function, or in these cases does the drop-down menu work like this and it doesn't allow you to bring up the various selected texts?

[Bernd Alheit]

When you use setItems it will reset the dropdown to the first entry.

[ENE5CD9]

Okay
Do you have any alternative solutions please?

[Bernd Alheit]

Why does you use setItems in a calculation script?

[ENE5CD9]

The drop-down menu field is small and the full text listed in the options menu cannot be read well

[ENE5CD9]

I think I solved the problem this way.
I insert this function in the calculation script of the "CREDIT" menu

this.getField("CREDIT").setItems(["CREDIT\nOPENINGS", "MORTGAGE\nLOAN", "PERSONAL\nLOAN"]);

Then I insert this function in the custom key script of the "CREDIT" field
this.getField("CREDIT").valueAsString.replace(/\n/," ");

Then in the custom validation script of the "CREDIT" field I insert this function

if(event.value == "MORTGAGE\nMORTGAGE")this.getField("PERSONAL LOAN N").value = this.getField("BANK").value;
if(event.value == "CREDIT OPENINGS")this.getField("PERSONAL LOAN N").value = this.getField("BANK_2").value;
if(event.value == "PERSONAL\nLOAN")this.getField("PERSONAL LOAN N").value = this.getField("BANK_3").value;

Finally, I go back to the "CREDIT" field calculation script and delete the function
this.getField("CREDIT").setItems(["CREDIT\nOPENINGS", "MORTGAGE\nLOAN", "PERSONAL\nLOAN"]);
leaving the script empty

[Bernd Alheit · Accepted solution]

You can execute the script

this.getField("CREDIT").setItems(["CREDIT\nOPENINGS", "MORTGAGE\nLOAN", "PERSONAL\nLOAN"]);

in the Javascript console.

[Bernd Alheit]

When you use setItems it will reset the dropdown to the first entry.