User field with delivered select

unknown

Hello,

I am trying to create a user field that end users can open a delivered select on.

For example a field that calls the PositionSelect.

However when I attempt to use the "select is PositionSelect" syntax I get an error that my field isn't a key field.

I have a feeling I am missing something obvious

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unknown

Wouldn't Named Type meet your requirement.

While defining the field make the field type as Named Type and enter Position.

Named Type
Use Named Type add a business class as a user field instead of a static field type. The List for Defined Field is a list of all the business classes in the data area, including any user-defined business classes. When you add a named type field, the pick list of values the user sees are records in the business class.

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unknown

Can you not just add "States" to the User Field configuration? Or are you trying to read the select options for the User Field from somewhere else?

unknown

Hey Tom, thank you for the response. I am trying to give users the ability to select from our list of available position codes. There are roughly 800 position codes.

unknown

I understand now. We don't use HR so I didn't realize that was an Infor business class. Unfortunately, we don't have any User Field configurations that present the values from a different Infor business class. We either use States or we did have some that presented the values from a UserBusinessClass that we configured and populated with Infor Spreadsheet Designer.

unknown

Wouldn't Named Type meet your requirement.

While defining the field make the field type as Named Type and enter Position.

unknown

Hello,

Yes this is the way.

I was able to set the named type field (although it took me a hot minute to realize you can't set a named type if you assign a field type and size). Once set I was able to use a "Select is ..." and pull a value from the business class which I utilized in the named type field.

Shout out to @don-peterson who actually set me on this path.

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