How to get all the choice values in a script

[anusha60]

Hi,

I am trying to get all the choice option values in a client script to verify whether the choice field has a particular choice option in it,if not I want to create that option dynamically.

Could someone suggest me,whether we have any method to get the list of choice values in script.

Thanks in advance......

Thanks,

Anusha.

[Brad Tilton]

Hi Anusha,

You can try this client script by changing <choicefield> to the name of your choice field.

var values = [];

var sel = g_form.getElement('<choicefield>');

for (var i=0, n=sel.options.length;i<n;i++) {

   if (sel.options[i].value) values.push(sel.options[i].value);

}

alert(values.join(","));

[anusha60]

Thank you Brad, it was helpful for me.

Thanks.

Anusha.

[Naveen Kumar J]

You can also achieve this by the below piece of script

var field = gr.getElement('os');

var choices = field.getChoices();

[Saad8]

getControl() wont work for the portal though. And I think it is not a good idea to play around with the HTML elements as g_form.getControl() does. I did it like Naveen demonstrated below and sent the values over to the client by a 'g_scratchpad' value using a display business rule.