Provide utility for quickly viewing a given field's choice values
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Here's a common scenario:
You're writing a script and need to check the value of a multiple choice field (e.g., a task's state). You don't remember the internal value for the choice option you're trying to check against, so you have to drop what you're doing, hunt down a record from the table, open up the field context menu, then select "Configure Choices". What a pain!
I want Xplore to have a side panel utility (similar to the Table Hierarchy panel) that lets you browse table fields and view their respective choice options.
I'm imagining inputs like this:
Input Name | Input Options | Notes |
---|---|---|
Table | All defined tables | Omit tables without fields |
Field | All fields from the selected table | Readonly until table selected, omit fields without choice options |
With the output displayed beneath these inputs, which might look like this (using table incident
and field state
as inputs):
Label | Value |
---|---|
New | 1 |
In Progress | 2 |
On Hold | 3 |
Resolved | 6 |
Closed | 7 |
Cancelled | 8 |
NOTE: If a given table has no sys_choice
records specified for a field, that may mean still mean the choices are defined on an ancestor table. You only need to take into account the choices defined for the first ancestor with sys_choice
records, not all choices defined for all ancestors.
As an example, given this hierarchy of inheriting tables:
table_a
=> table_b
=> table_c
Where table_a
has these sys_choices for field pick_one
:
Foo (1), Bar (10)
Where table_b
has these sys_choices for field pick_one
:
Foo (2), Baz (20)
Where table_c
has no defined sys_choices for field pick_one
The following output would be expected when viewing choices for table table_c
with field pick_one
:
Label | Value |
---|---|
Foo | 2 |
Baz | 20 |
Nice suggestion. Thanks.