How to properly get value from variable used in a catalog item?

[ericgilmore]

Created a service catalog item, with multiple variables.

Created a workflow with a notification activity that sends email upon form submission.

Used variables from the catalog item in the notification (advance, message) field via ${current.variables.var_name} which seems to do what I needed,

until, I realized that one variable, a Selectbox was sending the "text" attribute and not the actual "value" associated with the Selectbox item.

i.e. sending time{ 3:00 AM } text,   instead of time{ 03 } value

Is it a simple matter of adding a dot reference to traverse, i.e. ${current.variables.var_name.getValue()}

Or is that too simple.

--Thanks in advance

[Kalaiarasan Pus · Accepted solution]

Try

${current.variables.var_name.getDisplayValue()}

[ericgilmore]

I'm sorry Kalai, but that didn't work.

I'll do some more searching. I'm sure I'm not the only one to run into this.

[Kalaiarasan Pus]

You want to get the label of the current value of select box?

[ericgilmore]

No not the label, but the actual value associated with the selectbox option that is selected. In this case it's a selectbox that displays a list of times {1:00 AM, 2:00AM, 3:00 AM, etc.} that has the associated values {01, 02, 03, ... }

When I use ${current.variable.var_name} I get the 1:00 AM etc. But not the 01 value of the selected option. I want to know how to get the 01 value instead.