Funny problem with select box

[rads]

According to the documentation Choice values property may be populated with

"A simple list of values separated by just a comma (i.e. Option 1, Option 2, Option 3, etc...)."

Now one of our users had the idea to create a new record with a comma in the key.
Of course, the select box providing records from this table goes Amok :).

Any idea anybody?

[Emily]

Hi rads,

This problem can be solved by use of square brackets ([]) and quotation marks. See below for an example.

The 'choices' property is setup like so (notice that 2 of the options have commas included):

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Running the program results in the following for the select box:

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If you are using a bound field for this, you would do something similar in your RPG program.

Hope that this helps!

[Scott Klement]

Using the technique that Emily posted, if you run into any other special characters that need to be escaped (for example, double quotes in the string, or square brackets, etc) they'd be escaped according to the standard for a JSON array. Details are here: https://www.json.org/json-en.html

For example:

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[ "Rainer", "Emily", "Scott \"Crazy Guy\" Klement" ]

[rads]

Excellent :)

Is this mentioned in the documentation?

If not, please consider to mention this in the documentation for select boxes.

Thank you,

Rainer

[rads]

Why on earth is "dokumentation" replaced by "***"?

[Scott Klement]

I was wondering the same thing about *** -- very strange

[BFoster]

TFM? ... as in RTFM?