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dotnet develope how to compare all values in a picklist with text field using trigger
Hi All,
I have existing picklist which contains 100 values and i have text field in an a standard object.
i want to compare all values (not the vaue which is selected in a picklist) in a picklist with text field using trigger.
please help me in this issue......
thanks in advance.
Mahesh Chilaka:smileyhappy:
What you need is the Describe feature (to retrieve all the possible values in your picklist). However, Describe is not available in Apex today, this is a future feature.
You will need to keep a copy of the picklist values somewhere else (in your code, in a field in salesforce,...) and search for matches against that string. If you use a custom field (say, on a custom settings object) you can write an s-control that will update the field so that it contains all of your picklist options, since the 'describe' function is available in AJAX.
I would just save the picklist values in a ';' delimited string since that is Salesforce's convention for storing multi-select list values. Then Apex has a split() function that you can use to convert the string to a collection before iterating through the values and searching for matches.
It's a hack, but maybe it will work for you until they add 'Describe' to Apex.