Simple Scripted Validator to prevent single value from a Select List

Ashton Treadway

Throwing myself on the mercy of the boards, because I am not having any luck getting this to work on my own:

I have several select lists with options "Please select a value", "Yes", and "No".

I want to run a simple scripted validator against these select lists that prohibits the transition if the selected value is "Please select a value".

What syntax am I looking for?

I've tried

cfValues[11083] != 'Please select a value'

! cfValues[11083]*.value.contains('Please select a value')

And variations thereof, which do not seem to work. And I have to assume this is because I am Doing It Wrong.

So, help.

Again, I want to permit the transition ONLY if the selected value is anything other than "Please select a value".

EDIT:

Additional complication is that the end customer does not want "None" as a value in the list.

JamieA

Assuming it's a single select I think you want something like:

cfValues['Name of custom field'].value != 'Please select a value'

cfValues is always indexed by field name, not field ID. So what you you see in the web UI.

Use *.value.contains(...) when it's a multiselect.

But, adding

log.warn (cfValues['Name of custom field'])

before the condition will print it out in the log, which will give you all the info you need.