What is "Choice List Specification"?

[d-aizawa]

Hi.

I Created Incident field "Member Lists".

It is of type List and references the sys_user table.

I was curious, is there any effect if I set the Choice List Specification to "Dropdown with --None--"?

I actually tried it with PDI, but it feels like nothing has changed.

Thank you!

[Allen Andreas]

Hi,

For the list field, the choice list specification wouldn't do anything, I believe, but you could add choices (your circle in your screenshot) in that related list and those choices could appear in your list as eligible selections (instead of referencing the list somewhere else).

For other field types: integer, string, etc. the choice list specification setting can convert it over to being a choice field (for display intents and purposes).

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[d-aizawa]

Thank you answering my question.

In other words, if the field is of type List, is it the same no matter what you set in the Choice List Specification?

Also, for List type fields, is there any inconvenience if the Choice List Specification is set to something other than None?

[Allen Andreas]

Hello,

It depends on how you have your list field set up...explained below:

Without a choice list specification set and reference to a table:

With a choice list specification set (dropdown with none) and reference to a table:

With a choice list specification, reference to another table, AND choices in the related list:

So if you have a reference to another table, it doesn't change the look of it.

If you DON'T have a reference to another table set, AND you use the choice list specification, then it does change the behavior. Further behavior incorporates any choices you specify in the choice related list.

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