Working with lists in microflows
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Hi All, I have the following scenario: An employee has a FirstName and a LastName. In the UI I need to show a list of employees with there respective FullNames, aka: $Employee/FirstName + ' ' + $Employee/LastName Coming from a dev background I would say that I can add a property like FullName on runtime and render it. Till now I have not been able to do this without adding a field to the Employee entity called FullName. Do you see any other ways because I would rather not persist the FullName?
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Kim Pellikaan
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Set Fullname up as a calculated Attribute, using your own formula
Note that the underlying structure of Mendix is rather tolerant concerning data-redundancy, and the calculated attribute is bad(ish) for performance reasons..... so, the better solution is to crate an "on commit" MF to (re)set the Fullname.
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Lex van Rooy
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This could get you going, without storing the full name: Use a non persistent entity for this, with an attribute for concatenating the name parts and link this to the Employee objects. Then when selecting the non persistent object retrieve the employee.
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Erwin 't Hoen
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Alternatively, you could use a Text widget - see screenshot below. This will not work in a datagrid, but should work in all other scenarios:
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Mike Kumpf