Accessing other variable set values from within a MRVS

[suladance]

Hi there!

I am using a few articles/videos by Brad Tilton and Göran Lundqvist to utilise the MRVS as a table display for various data stored in tables in the backend. This is a trial to see if it will work as a load time friendly way to load these values.

Things have been going well so far, however I have hit a roadblock with the Lookup Select Box type variable (within the MRVS). I have found that I can only reference variables within the MRVS in the 'Reference qual' field, not in another single line variable set. I thought hmm, maybe I could pass the value from the other set into a variable in the MRVS, but discovered that I cannot then hide that variable in the MRVS (at least through a UI policy and I'm trying to keep DOM manipulation scripts to a minimum).

As a note, our DEV instance is actually on Orlando EA release, but I couldn't select that in the version dropdown (just in case there are new features I've missed in my scouring of the docs site).

TL:DR, any ideas on how to pass other variable set values into a MRVS?

[suladance · Accepted solution]

This may be relevant to this question: https://community.servicenow.com/community?id=community_article&sys_id=2a508caedbf47f48d82ffb2439961...

I moved away from Lookup Select Box type variables and am now attempting to set the data on load into string variables.