How do you generate a commvault entity for a dropdown box?

Adding @RMcG - I think they may know 😀

Hi @christopherlecky 

which commvault entity were you looking to add in a drop down?

The entity selection in field type is mostly used to automatically start showing the relevant entities in a user form without having to write a lot of code for it. So, when you mark an input field as clientgroupentity, the user automatically gets a list of client groups. If you are doing some backend coding without taking that as an input then I dont see much value in using the entity classes.

Here’s a couple of examples…

 

Is that what you’re after?

This looks like the first half of what I want.

I will explain what I am trying to do… 

Sometimes I need to present a dropdown of filtered entities. For example; if I wanted to present a dropdown of clients with the SQL agent active there is no way to do it using the standard entities.

The goal here then is to run a query and then transform the results into a list of entities, which is what I assume is what I could use for the dropdown.

So my next question is could I do something like this : Defining a list of client entitites and then populate it to with the CE objects you 

def ce=[]

def assert cs instanceof list

assert cs.size() == clientcount

Just imagine I am reading through  rows here and populating the entity values then adding them to the list.

workflow.setVariable(“ce”,ce)

Then in the dropdown field the field and values would be

java:{workflow.getVariable(“ce”)}:java

Does that make sense?

Thanks.

Chris.

The value is that you can use it throughout the workflow without having to do things like interpreting objects at every turn. 

I have been using custom objects but that forces you to code in situations where it isn’t necessary.

For example for a client entity once defined I can use the visual parts of the workflow to reference it. Basically a hybrid approach for people like me who can read code pretty easily but it not a coder by trade.

Though I do see your point. 

For now you can use the labels and values field in customize input.