Trying to control Combobox

[swiftsail]

Hi All, Trying to control a combobox with a substr of a data field with no success so far.
I have populated the object with the "Choices" field with ",Part Time, Full Time"

and put this code in the datachanged delegate

function page1_section1_field6_datachanged()
{
// insert your code here
var emp = Lianja.getCursor("emp0_000");
var ddep = emp.getData("ddep");
var emptypidx = substr(ddep,4,1);
var Oitem = Lianja.getElementByID("page1.section1.field6");
switch(emptypidx){
case "F":
Oitem.value = "Full Time";
break;
case "P":
Oitem.value = "Part Time";
break;
case "T":
Oitem.value = "Temportary";
break;
default:
};
};

What am I doing wrong, it's getting into switch with the proper value?
TIA

[barrymavin]

Try setting the "text" not the "value".

Oitem.text = "Full Time";

You can try this type of thing interactively in the JavaScript console.

[swiftsail]

Try setting the "text" not the "value".

Oitem.text = "Full Time";

You can try this type of thing interactively in the JavaScript console.

Yep, that worked. Thanks. I doesn't help that all the commands are in upper/lower case in the doc and it only says once that all javascript properties are lower case.

Something else, I couldn't get the list method to work? It comes up undefined. Reason?

[barrymavin]

If you encounter an issue like that please submit a ticket so that the method is exposed in JavaScript.

[swiftsail]

If you encounter an issue like that please submit a ticket so that the method is exposed in JavaScript.

Can do. Thks.

[barrymavin]

I've added list( n ) in 5.3.

Note that n starts at 1 not 0.