Get Enum Name from Enum value (integer index value)

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I have one enum value: LedgerPostingType and I want to use this value and grab the same enum name value from InventAccountType. The thing is, the enum values with the same names on these two enums have different index values (i.e. InventProfit is enum value 93 on LedgerPostingType but value 8 on InventAccountType). I want to convert the enum index value of LedgerPostingType to the name value (InventProfit) and then grab this same enum from InventAccountType. See the code below for what i am trying to achieve (it doesn't compile).

{

str postingTypeForLookupName, inventAccountTypeForLookupName;

LedgerPostinType postingTypeForLookup = GeneralJournalAccountEntry.PostingType;

postingTypeForLookupName = SysDictEnum.index2Label(postingTypeForLookup);
inventAccountTypeForLookup = InventAccountType::postingTypeForLookupName;

}

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Martin Dráb 239,031 Most Valuable Professional on at

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You forgot to create an instance of SysDictEnum. Also, I believe a better approach will be refering to the element name and not the label. You can either use index2Symbol() method of SysDictEnum class, or a global function called enum2Symbol().

Try something like this:

str enumSymbol = enum2Symbol(enumNum(LedgerPostinType), postingTypeForLookup); SysDictEnum inventAccountDictEnum = new SysDictEnum(enumNum(InventAccountType)); InventAccountType inventAccountType = inventAccountDictEnum.symbol2Value(enumSymbol);

Don't forget to handle the situation when the corresponding enum element doesn't exist.

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Hi Martin,

Thank you, this is exactly what I needed.

I appreciate your help!

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