{"id":33,"date":"2010-06-17T20:20:45","date_gmt":"2010-06-18T01:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anvil-of-time.com\/2010\/06\/17\/powerbuilder-lookup-the-display-value-of-a-dddw-column\/"},"modified":"2011-10-07T11:46:42","modified_gmt":"2011-10-07T16:46:42","slug":"powerbuilder-lookup-the-display-value-of-a-dddw-column","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anvil-of-time.com\/powerbuilder\/powerbuilder-lookup-the-display-value-of-a-dddw-column\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerBuilder &#8211; Lookup the Display value of a DDDW column"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a pretty typical situation where you want to know the value displayed in a dropdown datawindow even though behind the scenes only the ID is saved.\u00a0 Here is a technique you can use to look up the value in any row in the datawindow.<\/p>\n<pre name=\"code\" class=\"VB\">ls_describe = \"Evaluate('LookUpDisplay(part_id)', \" + string(ll_found) + \")\"\/\/ll_found is the row #\r\nls_value = dw_1.Describe(ls_describe)<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a pretty typical situation where you want to know the value displayed in a dropdown datawindow even though behind the scenes only the ID is saved.\u00a0 Here is a technique you can use to look up the value in any row in the datawindow. ls_describe = &#8220;Evaluate(&#8216;LookUpDisplay(part_id)&#8217;, &#8221; + string(ll_found) + &#8220;)&#8221;\/\/ll_found is the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,10],"tags":[12,16],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anvil-of-time.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anvil-of-time.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anvil-of-time.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anvil-of-time.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anvil-of-time.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/anvil-of-time.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":996,"href":"https:\/\/anvil-of-time.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions\/996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anvil-of-time.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anvil-of-time.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anvil-of-time.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}