unable to retrieve text of selected option set

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I have a dropdown on my form, the contents are dynamicly populated when the form loads by:

function AddRecordsToOptionset(records)
{
    var optionsetField = Xrm.Page.ui.controls.get("a_textmoduletest2");

    for (var i = 0; i < records.length; i++)
    {
        optionsetField.addOption({ text: records[i].orb_name});
    }
}

Running the form I can see the optionset and dropdown retrieves the correct values and I can select one of them.

My problem is getting the selected option from the dropdown, it constantly returns null with everything I've tried:

var var_text = Xrm.Page.getAttribute("a_textmoduletest2").getText();

alert(var_text);

What is the correct way to get the text that the user has selected in Dynamics CRM 2011 via javascript?

regards,

Matt

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Hi Matt,

Are you sure the element you are adding in the optionset are available in the optionset field. You should add both text and value .

Try to write like below -

function OptionSetAddRemove() { var optionSet = Xrm.Page.ui.controls.get("new_myoptionset"); var optionSetValues = optionSet.getAttribute().getOptions(); optionSet.clearOptions(); // Clear All the options before add optionSetValues.forEach(function (element) { // Loop all the element of optionset and add element based on condition for (var i = 0; i < records.length; i++) { if (element.value == records[i].orb_value) // You need to compare text or value and add the element in the optionset optionSet.addOption(element); } }); }

Hope this helps.

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Hi,

Thanks for the response.

I've updated it to add a value:

function AddRecordsToOptionset(records)

{

var optionsetField = Xrm.Page.ui.controls.get("a_textmoduletest2");

for (var i = 0; i < records.length; i++)

{

optionsetField.addOption({ text: records[i].orb_name, value: (i)});

}

}

I still get no value or text.

Matt

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Also get an error with your code:

Object doesn't support property or method 'forEach'

Matt

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Hi Matt,

Try with the code which I shared , you just need to change on the red highlighted part.

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Goutam,

As I mentioned above with your code I receive an error Object doesn't support property or method 'forEach'

regards,

Matt

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I've gone into the entity and manually created an option in the optionset, I then runcode to add an additional three options. I have an onchange event for the field that should return the text and value of the selected item for the field.

All four values appear in the drop down when clicked, selecting the item that was manually added the text and the value return them both as expected. However if I select any of the three items added dynamically all that gets returned are blank values.

What am I doing wrong with coded values that I add:

var optionset = Xrm.Page.ui.controls.get("a_textmoduletest2");

var options=new Object();

options=[{value:1,text:"testoption1"},{value:12,text:"testoption2"},{value:13,text:"testoption3"}];

optionset.addOption(options[0],1);

optionset.addOption(options[1],2);

optionset.addOption(options[2],3);

regards,

Matt

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Hi Matt,

Are you saying that you are adding some new options to the optionset? i.e. if the option has 1,2 & 3 and then in your code you are dynamically adding 4,5 which makes the total optiosn as 1,2,3,4,5?

If the above is correct then I think I =t is expected that you are getting the selected value as null because that value is dynamically added and doen not exists. I believe if you select the dynamics value and try to save the form, you will either get an error or the value will not be saved.

In order to add options, the option needs to be added to the optionset.

Hope this helps.

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Hi Matt,

Were you able to resolve this issue. I'm trying to do the same and not sure how to pull text of selected option set value.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Vijaya

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Hello Matt,

Did you try the below?

Get the text of the selected option : Xrm.Page.getAttribute("fieldname").getText();

Get the numeric value of the selected option : Xrm.Page.getAttribute("fieldname").getValue();

If you are using the D365 V9, you must use the formContext instead of Xrm.Page.

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Hi,

Yes I got around it by using the above code.

Matt

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