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How can I add a value to a column that has an enum type

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Hi everyone

I need to achieve the following:

Make a new BaseEnum with the following items (undefined, abc, def). Then make an EDT with this enum as basic type. So far so good.

Now I need to put this in a parameterstable. So I added a column with ExtendedDataType the EDT that I made here above and the enumtype automatically was the BaseEnum's.

Now I want to put one of the enum's value into this column, how can I achieve this ?

I tried already the following (for example):

parametersTable.ColumnEnum = BaseEnum::abc;
parametersTable.update();

Greetings,
Vincent

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David Massey on at

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Please indicate what your problem you are having.

There are examples of setting default value on most of the parameter tables. (e.g. ProjParameters.initValue().)

It is unclear as to whether you are providing the complete set of code in your example, but you need to:

ttsgegin

select table for updatate

set the field values

update the record

ttscommit

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Smartus 620 on at

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My bad...

If you don't mind I will post the code tomorrow since I am not at work for the moment and can't access it from home.

I did it like you said it and first it didn't work but after a crash (suddenly happend) it was fixed partially. Now I don't get the error anymore as I tried to update the field with the enum. But it doesn't update as well. Because the value from the enum that I specified isn't in the table. If I debug I can see it gets updated, but when I browse to the table and open it, I see nothing that makes any sense...

Tomorrow I will show some code examples.

Thanks for the reply though

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Smartus 620 on at

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Here I am again this time with the screens:

gyazo.com/0b86d607af802d4f3835fe851934280b

As you can see I made an enum with 3 values. Afterwards I made an EDT with base type this enum. This one I used as the type for my column "MapsType". Shouldn't I normally get "Google, Bing and Undefined" in the dropdown ? I don't understand where this Element1 is coming from.

What I actually want to do is choose one of the 3. And this is what I was trying to do with the update...

Greetings

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Smartus 620 on at

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Seems that I had to define the label from the Enum ...

I still have many things to learn of AX ... :-(

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jaestevan 1,719 on at

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You have to write the name of the base enum in code. Based on your screenshot and your original code, it should work like this:

parametersTable.ColumnEnum = McsMapsEnum::abc; // wrong!! BaseEnum::

parametersTable.update();

Hope this helps.

Regards.

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Mohamed Hathout 645 on at

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what is McsMapsEnum ?? please

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Smartus 620 on at

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As you can see in this screenshot: gyazo.com/0b86d607af802d4f3835fe851934280b it's just a regular base enum.
Here I wanted to list all the maps that I was using for an implementation in AX. These values are shown inside a dropdown.

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Mohamed Hathout 645 on at

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thank you it was not working , coz i should have drag and drop the enum field when i did that .. its just working fine !!!

thanks

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you forgot to rename "Label" Property at BaseEnums... :)

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