Retrieve GlobalList Labels in a Workflow

[AntoineS]

Hello,

Does anyone know if there is a way to retrieve the global list labels in the workflow context?

I could only find IDVault.globalList(key) that returns an Array of global list values, but no labels.

[FT]

I believe you have to play a bit with the returned object. AFAIR it is a array of arrays and to get to proper list you need to use result[0] to get keys or result[1] to get the labels. Not specifying index gives you the first, as you have noticed.

[AntoineS]

Thank you for your answer.

I tried the field.getValues() function with all the syntaxes I could think of ( 0, "0",[1],"[1]").
It turns out that in any case it always returns me the value (key) of the selected GlobalList field.
Is that the function you're talking about ?

[FT · Accepted solution]

The code I've been using was:

...
cListByName = IDVault.globalQuery(null, "CFilterByName", {"firstName":form.getValue("fcon_name")});
...
if (cListByName[0].length>0){
    ...
}
...

In most cases results received from portal interface APIs are stored in object containing two arrays: [0] for keys and [1] for display values. This applies to global lists too.

Notice I wasn't pushing these values through any field, cause getValues() on the other hand will return only keys. This is what description says:

The code for you to get specific description would be

IDVault.globalList(null, "listKey")[1][indexOfWhateverElementFromList]

 and don't forget about locales. 😉