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Object Function Issues

edited Aug 5, 2019 4:48PM in Visual Builder 5 comments

Summary

Trying to get value of field in one BO based on ID in another BO

Content

Here is the situation.

I have an object function created on a DummyBO so I can iterate over multiple records in another BO.

I have no problem getting a unique list of values for the field I am interested in.  However, the values are the ids in a reference field to another BO that has the names associated with the ids.  I would like to get the values in the other BO which are the names.

The reason I am doing this is to develop a pick list for a field to search on a business object represented in the UI.  That business object used in the UI is a transaction BO so using a standard LOV directly on the BO returns duplicates of the field (e.g., all records) I am interested in.  So I decided to create a function on the object that would get a list of the unique values and then get the label/name from the setup business object.  If there is a way to list unique values using the wizard for the LOV,

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