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How to check for multiple selections in a list collector

Cirrus
Kilo Sage

Hopefully my last question on this for a while. Thanks for all your community help to get me to this point.

In my order guide, I need to check the values selected in my list collector variable, and if certain values are selected then the value of a yes/no variable is set to Yes. I have the following, which works ok for the value selected.

function onSubmit() {
    var gr = g_form.getValue('catalog_list'); //  getting the List Collector Variable value
    var ar = gr.split(','); 
    if(ar.indexOf("55d3db6a1b105914ce1564a2b24bcb32") > -1){ // used sys_id of selected record
        g_form.setValue('needs_approval', 'Yes');    
        return true;
    }}

My question is how to query multiple sys_ids on the highlighted line. I suspect a load of if/else statements is not the most efficient (or professional!!) scripting technique

1 ACCEPTED SOLUTION

Ankur Bawiskar
Tera Patron
Tera Patron

Hi,

something like this

function onSubmit() {
    var gr = g_form.getValue('catalog_list'); //  getting the List Collector Variable value
    var ar = gr.split(','); 
    if(ar.indexOf("55d3db6a1b105914ce1564a2b24bcb32") > -1 || ar.indexOf("sysId2") > -1 || ar.indexOf("sysId3") > -1){ // used sys_id of selected record
        g_form.setValue('needs_approval', 'Yes');    
        return true;
    }
}

Regards
Ankur

Regards,
Ankur
✨ Certified Technical Architect  ||  ✨ 9x ServiceNow MVP  ||  ✨ ServiceNow Community Leader

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3 REPLIES 3

dmathur09
Kilo Sage

Hi Cirrus,

You can use switch statements to get rid of multiple if/else statements.

Regards,

Deepankar Mathur

Ankur Bawiskar
Tera Patron
Tera Patron

Hi,

something like this

function onSubmit() {
    var gr = g_form.getValue('catalog_list'); //  getting the List Collector Variable value
    var ar = gr.split(','); 
    if(ar.indexOf("55d3db6a1b105914ce1564a2b24bcb32") > -1 || ar.indexOf("sysId2") > -1 || ar.indexOf("sysId3") > -1){ // used sys_id of selected record
        g_form.setValue('needs_approval', 'Yes');    
        return true;
    }
}

Regards
Ankur

Regards,
Ankur
✨ Certified Technical Architect  ||  ✨ 9x ServiceNow MVP  ||  ✨ ServiceNow Community Leader

Perfect, Thanks Ankur