Reference Qualifier on Lookup Select Box Variable

Blair5 · ‎03-02-2015

I've been looking through the WIKI/community and it seems like there is a bug with reference qualifiers on Lookup Select box variables. Does anyone know if there is a work around besides making the field a reference variable?

I have 3 variables on a form -- each dependent on the last. The first is a lookup select box and I'd like the second to be a lookup select box with a reference qualifier because setting it as a reference variable gives the same information as the third variable. I've tried only showing the columns I want (with attributes), but it still shows too much.

Is there another angle I can take? Building the list with a script? I only want to show unique values. Any ideas/help would be greatly appreciated because I think I've exhausted all the options I can think of. Thanks!

Kalaiarasan Pus · ‎03-03-2015

Seems like we all have been trolled here Look up select supports reference qualifier but it's not simple as reference field..

Check the wiki page

http://wiki.servicenow.com/index.php?title=Variable_Types#Lookup_Select_Box

We need to use 'ref_qual_elements' attribute to get the updated reference working..

I am able to do the dynamic thing working after adding the attribute...

Sample demo:

Create 2 lookup select variable called 'located_at' and 'user' referring location and user table respectively.

Idea here is to display the user depending on the location selected...

In the user variable, define reference qual as javascript: 'location='+current.variables.located_at; and variable attribute as ref_qual_elements=located_at

This will make the variable to use the updated reference. Try this out and let me know if this works for you as well.

Note: I tried on Fuji instance.

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Vibha · ‎03-31-2017

breinhart Can u please share the script/ configuration? Similar needs to be implemented!

Blair5 · ‎04-04-2017

Bhaskar, This read is a little old, but it seems like the total configuration (including the script) are available. Let me know what specifically you are looking for and hopefully I can help. Thanks.

tiyasa · ‎12-07-2017

I know this is an old post, but I have same requirements but cannot get it working on Jakarta. Any suggestions?

SC10 · ‎06-06-2016

Good day,

Could you please re-create your demo of this? I am testing it out on my end and running into some issues.

Thanks

Kalaiarasan Pus · ‎06-07-2016

Okay I do not have the backup of this .. Will recreate it and update this thread.