Use ExtendedInformation Property for List Lookups

This scenario demonstrates the use of "ExtendedInformation" property for List Lookups to populate the employee details.

Scenario

In this scenario, the administrator wishes to see the employee details such as Employee ID, Email, Phone, Mobile, Department and Gender on selection of the employee's name.

Steps to achieve the scenario

1. Create a List lookup EmployeeListLookup through Lookup Settings. For more details on creating List Lookups, click here.

2. Create a Employee Form through Enterprise Console -> Forms which consumes the EmployeeListLookup.

   The highlighted Select Employee control is a Lookup Input control through which the EmployeeListLookup is being consumed by the form.

3. Set the On Data Change property under the Advanced tab for the Select Employee Lookup Input control. Add the following script to this property.

   var extendedInformation = control.extendedInformation;

   if(extendedInformation !== null || extendedInformation !== undefined)

   {

   control.findById("T1").value = extendedInformation["EmployeeId"];

   control.findById("T2").value = extendedInformation["LastName"] + " " + extendedInformation["FirstName"];

   control.findById("T3").value = extendedInformation["Phone"];

   control.findById("T4").value = extendedInformation["Mobile"];

   control.findById("T5").value = extendedInformation["Email"];

   control.findById("T6").value = extendedInformation["Department"];

   control.findById("T7").value = extendedInformation["Gender"];

   }

4. Click Save to save the changes to the properties. Preview the form.

5. Select the required employee from the list of employees.