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Set a dropdown field with "Computed as"

CM_9399659 — Fri, 06 Sep 2024 19:36:45 GMT

Does anyone know the correct syntax to set a dropdown field using the "Computed as" logic? For example if I want to automatically set a dropdown to option id 1, how would I do that? I have tried several things, such as choiceField[2][1], choiceField[2][0]_option[1], etc, from the Codebeamer documentation but nothing seems to work.

Re: Set a dropdown field with "Computed as"

Nico_M — Mon, 09 Sep 2024 09:16:42 GMT

Hi,

The syntax is <propertyNameofTheChoiceField>_$option[<optionID>]

So for example if you want to calculate that the field choiceList[1] should have the 2nd option selected by computation, this would be the syntax:

choiceList[1]_$option[2]

This is also described here in the documentation (just not indexed well in the table of contents): https://codebeamer.com/cb/wiki/25722#section-Context+Variables

Hope this helps,

Cheers,

Nico

Re: Set a dropdown field with "Computed as"

CM_9399659 — Mon, 09 Sep 2024 13:22:57 GMT

Hey Nico,

Thank you for your reply.

I have tried the syntax you have mentioned from the documentation. This does not allow me to save the changes to the field. I get an error:

Compiling "choiceList[4]_$option[1]" to compute "Validated Cycle/Vendor (AMISC1-6)" failed: "Cannot convert of type class com.intland.codebeamer.persistence.dto.ReadOnlyChoiceOptionDto to interface java.util.List" Please save the tracker configuration before you use newly added fields in expressions.

Do you have any idea why this might be?

Chris

Re: Set a dropdown field with "Computed as"

Nico_M — Mon, 09 Sep 2024 13:40:24 GMT

Dear Chris,

Sorry my bad, forgot one crucial thing:

As every choiceField is also a collection (even if its single-choice), you need to put a List() around your computed option, so in your example:
List(choiceList[4]_$option[1])

Let me know if that does the trick 🙂

Cheers,

Nico

Re: Set a dropdown field with "Computed as"

CM_11253122 — Mon, 09 Sep 2024 20:22:28 GMT

Hey Nico,

That worked!

Thank you for the help.

Re: Set a dropdown field with "Computed as"

Catalina — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 09:42:36 GMT

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Re: Set a dropdown field with "Computed as"

CM_11253122 — Wed, 11 Sep 2024 17:45:33 GMT

Hey Catalina,

I don't see the "Reply as Accepted Solution" button on my screen.

Re: Set a dropdown field with "Computed as"

Catalina — Thu, 12 Sep 2024 07:33:02 GMT

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