Return State Field Name instead of State Value in LM Transaction or Web Request?

andy

Does anyone know if it's possible to return the state field Name instead of the state Value in a LM Transaction or a Web Request?

For example for the state field below the record returned is in state Unreleased, but the LM Transaction and Web Request will return the state value 0 instead of state name "Unreleased".

Status is Numeric size 1
    States
        Unreleased value is 0
        Released value is 1
        Approved value is 2

The state value can easily be converted to the state name using a case statement, but wouldn't reflect any changes made to the underlying business class in the future.

cleverly

I don't know of a nice elegant way to get it — there isn't an easy to use BusinessFieldState business class that exposes it, for example.  

But one way to brute force the job would be to get the LPL definition of the field and parse it in Javascript within IPA with some appropriate regular expressions.  

From a quick look, these would be the places to get the LPL from:

1. BusinessLogicLPL in the TypeField business class for States defined as fields (e.g., FSM's RecordType) or a keyfield (e.g., PfiWorkunitCount).
2. BaseLPL in the BusinessView business class for examples like yours above on delivered business classes (e.g., BodCostCenter on FinanceEnterpriseGroup)
3. LPL in the UserBusinessClass business class for examples like yours above on user defined business classes
4. LPL in the UserField business class for examples like yours above on a user field that's been added to a delivered business class

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