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Custom Picker array Error

sikindhar9642
Certified Senior Developer

I have created these two below 

Expression : 

a!localVariables(
local!matches: where(
a!forEach(
items: ri!labels,
expression: search( ri!filter, fv!item)
)
),
a!dataSubset(
data: index( ri!labels, local!matches),
identifiers: index( ri!identifiers, local!matches)
)
)

UI Snippet : 

a!localVariables(
local!pickedState,
local!stateLabels: { "Alabama", "Alaska", "Arizona", "Arkansas", "California", "Colorado", "Connecticut", "Delaware", "Florida", "Georgia", "Hawaii", "Idaho", "Illinois", "Indiana", "Iowa", "Kansas", "Kentucky", "Louisiana", "Maine", "Maryland", "Massachusetts", "Michigan", "Minnesota", "Mississippi", "Missouri", "Montana", "Nebraska", "Nevada", "New Hampshire", "New Jersey", "New Mexico", "New York", "North Carolina", "North Dakota", "Ohio", "Oklahoma", "Oregon", "Pennsylvania", "Rhode Island", "South Carolina", "South Dakota", "Tennessee", "Texas", "Utah", "Vermont", "Virginia", "Washington", "West Virginia", "Wisconsin", "Wyoming" },
local!stateAbbreviations: { "AL", "AK", "AZ", "AR", "CA", "CO", "CT", "DE", "FL", "GA", "HI", "ID", "IL", "IN", "IA", "KS", "KY", "LA", "ME", "MD", "MA", "MI", "MN", "MS", "MO", "MT", "NE", "NV", "NH", "NJ", "NM", "NY", "NC", "ND", "OH", "OK", "OR", "PA", "RI", "SC", "SD", "TN", "TX", "UT", "VT", "VA", "WA", "WV", "WI", "WY" },

local!allAddress:{
ADDRESS_TEXT_ID:local!stateLabels,
ID:local!stateAbbreviations
},a!pickerFieldCustom(
label: "Pick address",
labelPosition: "ABOVE",
instructions: "",
helptooltip: "Start typing address text ID and address containing input string will be shown",
placeholder: "---Type address text ID ---",
maxselections: 1,
suggestFunction: rule!LIMSCN_SupplierArrayPickerFilter(
filter:_ ,
labels: index(local!allAddress,"ADDRESS_TEXT_ID",null),
identifiers: index(local!allAddress,"ID",null)
),
selectedLabels: a!forEach(
items:local!pickedState,
expression: index(index(local!allAddress,"ADDRESS_TEXT_ID",null), wherecontains(tointeger(fv!item), tointeger(index(local!allAddress,"ID",null))))
),

value:local!pickedState,
saveInto:local!pickedState,
validations: {}
)
)

And I am getting below error 

Interface Definition: Expression evaluation error at function a!pickerFieldCustom [line 9]: Cannot index "data" because it is an array type (List of Variant). Only fields with scalar types can be indexed from an array.

 

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  • 0

    I couldn't replicate your issue but did see your selected labels didn't look right (ie. Using tointeger() on text). See below for the slight change I made. Can you confirm if you can get this example to work?

    a!localVariables(
  local!pickedState,
  local!stateLabels: { "Alabama", "Alaska", "Arizona", "Arkansas", "California", "Colorado", "Connecticut", "Delaware", "Florida", "Georgia", "Hawaii", "Idaho", "Illinois", "Indiana", "Iowa", "Kansas", "Kentucky", "Louisiana", "Maine", "Maryland", "Massachusetts", "Michigan", "Minnesota", "Mississippi", "Missouri", "Montana", "Nebraska", "Nevada", "New Hampshire", "New Jersey", "New Mexico", "New York", "North Carolina", "North Dakota", "Ohio", "Oklahoma", "Oregon", "Pennsylvania", "Rhode Island", "South Carolina", "South Dakota", "Tennessee", "Texas", "Utah", "Vermont", "Virginia", "Washington", "West Virginia", "Wisconsin", "Wyoming" },
  local!stateAbbreviations: { "AL", "AK", "AZ", "AR", "CA", "CO", "CT", "DE", "FL", "GA", "HI", "ID", "IL", "IN", "IA", "KS", "KY", "LA", "ME", "MD", "MA", "MI", "MN", "MS", "MO", "MT", "NE", "NV", "NH", "NJ", "NM", "NY", "NC", "ND", "OH", "OK", "OR", "PA", "RI", "SC", "SD", "TN", "TX", "UT", "VT", "VA", "WA", "WV", "WI", "WY" },
  local!allAddress: {
    ADDRESS_TEXT_ID: local!stateLabels,
    ID: local!stateAbbreviations
  },
  a!pickerFieldCustom(
    label: "Pick address",
    labelPosition: "ABOVE",
    instructions: "",
    helptooltip: "Start typing address text ID and address containing input string will be shown",
    placeholder: "---Type address text ID ---",
    maxselections: 1,
    suggestFunction: rule!ASB_PickerSuggestFunction(
      filter: _,
      labels: index(
        local!allAddress,
        "ADDRESS_TEXT_ID",
        null
      ),
      identifiers: index(local!allAddress, "ID", null)
    ),
    selectedLabels: a!forEach(
      items: local!pickedState,
      expression: index(
        index(
          local!allAddress,
          "ADDRESS_TEXT_ID",
          null
        ),
        wherecontains(
          fv!item,
          touniformstring(a!flatten(index(local!allAddress, "ID", null)))
        )
      )
    ),
    value: local!pickedState,
    saveInto: local!pickedState,
    validations: {}
  )
)

  • 0
    Certified Lead Developer
     in reply to Andrew Hickingbotham

    Were you able to replicate the error? In my case it worked fine without any modifications... The only thing I can think of is that the error is in the signature of the rule

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