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Enumeration

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Is there a workaround to use values with space and hyphen ( e.g: Check – in ) in the ‘Name’ filed of the enumeration as it’s the value in ‘Name’ filed is eventually stored in the database?

asked 2020-09-01

Bibin Babu

3 answers

Lennart Spaans · Answer 1 · 2020-09-01

Every special character will result in an underscore.

The name of an enumeration value is also used for storing the enumeration value in the database. That is why changing the Name of an enumeration value is not allowed; it would invalidate the data in your database. The Caption, however, can be changed and this is the text that is displayed to the end-users.

https://docs.mendix.com/refguide/enumerations

Yi Wang · Answer 2 · 2021-02-08

Any updates on this topic?

I’ve got the same issue as I’m trying to use a Teamcenter LOV value with space in Mendix.

Gorjan Menkovski · Answer 3 · 2021-02-08

This is not possible...

What is your use case that needs space? Space in the Name should be enough...