How to access selected value of dynamically generated drop down menu

[Barbara Schütt]

Hi,

I have a dynamically created drop down menu. It is a list of actors, and every time a new actor is added this drop down menu is updated (during runtime). In JSON it is defined as this:

{

"type": "input_dummy",

"name": "actor_drop_down",

},

So there is no drop down menu there. It is generated during runtime and I can find it with

block_withDDMenu.getInput('actor_drop_down')

But somehow this is different from when it is defined with

"type": "field_dropdown",

"name": "EXAMPLE",

"options": [

[

...

]

During runtime, every time an actor is added, removed or changed, this menu is created and updated in the blocks needing this information.

How can I access this "actor_drop_down" structure in a code generator of a block that has such a dynamic list of actors? The method

block_withDDMenu.getFieldValue('actor_drop_down')

only returns null (since I think it is not properly defined in JSON)?

Do you need more information?

Best regards and thanks

Barbara

[Barbara Schütt]

I was now able to get it with

block.getInput('FIELD_NAME').fieldRow[1].selectedOption_[0]

is there a more elegant way of doing this?

[Mark Friedman]

I believe that block.getField('FIELD_NAME').getValue() might be a little more elegant.

-Mark

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