Access Label and Value of variable prompt type "Dropdown Select"

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Hi,

version 1.9.2.573 introduced “The Options list for Dropdown Select and Checkbox Select variable prompt types can now be split into Labels and Values.”. I had a use case for this right away. Now, if i query the variable such as “%Mode%” it will give me the value. However, i wanted to add the caption to the log. There seems to be no such option though. The logical step was to try “%Mode.Label%”, which would match “%Mode.Value%”. That is not supported though. Any other ideas?

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Hi Thomas,

Sorry, the label is not available - only the value is stored. Variables don’t currently have properties and extending the expression engine for variables would be a major piece of work that we cannot prioritise at the moment.

As a workaround, you could use two list variables: one for the label and one for the value as described in option 2 of this post: Variable dictionary / map? populate value based on selected keys in form?.

Alternatively, add the label to the start of each value with a separator e.g. Label:Value, and use the Split function to extract the label $Utils.GetString(%Mode%).Split(":").First()$ and the value $Utils.GetString(%Mode%).Split(":").Last()$.

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Hi Dave,

thanks. I’ve added some simple if statements and some redundant text log actions. Not smart, but it’ll do. :slight_smile: