List Item Expansion Examples

List Item Expansion Examples

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List Item Expansion Examples

The following examples illustrate the effects of list item expansion on the display of values in a field's drop-down list box.

These examples use the following values:

[Project]\Business Analysts is a team project group that contains three business analysts users: JayHamlin, PilarAckerman, and ReshmaPatel.
Example1\MyTeam is a group that contains three sub-groups: Development, Test, and Program Management. Each sub-group contains one user: devuser, testuser, pmuser, respectively. The group Example1\MyTeam also contains the user juser.
Example1\MyReports is a group that contains the users userone, usertwo, userthree, and one sub-group, MyRemotes, which contains the users userfour and userfive.
BoolValues is a global list that has two entries, true and false.
Note:
Use the literal prefix [Project] instead of using the actual name of the team project.

Note:
Use the literal prefix [Project] instead of using the actual name of the team project.

Example

In this example, the field contains a string value, a group, and a global list. At run time, the list is expanded and groups are filtered out.

<ALLOWEDVALUES expanditems="true" filteritems="excludegroups">
      <LISTITEM value = "string" />
      <LISTITEM value = "[Project]\Business Analysts" />
      <GLOBALLIST value = "BoolValues" />
</ALLOWEDVALUES>

The drop-down list box for the field shows these values:

string, true, false, JayHamlin, PilarAckerman, ReshmaPatel

Example

In this example, the field contains a string value, two groups, and a global list. At run time, the list is expanded and groups are not filtered out.

<ALLOWEDVALUES expanditems="true" >
      <LISTITEM value = "string" />
      <LISTITEM value = "Example1\juser2"/>
      <LISTITEM value = "Example1\MyTeam" />
      <GLOBALLIST value = "BoolValues" />
</ALLOWEDVALUES>

The drop-down list box for the field shows these values: string, true, false, juser, juser2, devuser, testuser, pmuser, Development, Test, and Program Management.

Example

In this example, the field contains a string value, two groups, and a global list. At run time, the list is not expanded and groups are not filtered out. This means that group names are displayed, but not the users within those groups.

<ALLOWEDVALUES expanditems="false">
      <LISTITEM value = "string" />
      <LISTITEM value = "Example1\MyReports"/>
      <LISTITEM value = "Example1\MyTeam" />
      <GLOBALLIST value = "BoolValues" />
</ALLOWEDVALUES>

The drop-down list box for the field shows these values: string, MyTeam, MyReports.

Note:
The global list name and contents are not displayed.

Example

In this example, the field contains a string value, one group, and a global list. At run time, the list is expanded and groups are filtered out.

<ALLOWEDVALUES expanditems="true" filteritems="excludegroups">
      <LISTITEM value = "string" />
      <LISTITEM value = "Example\MyTeam" />
      <GLOBALLIST value = "BoolValues" />
</ALLOWEDVALUES>

The drop-down list box for the field shows this value: string.

Note:
MyTeam is a group which is excluded and not expanded, and BoolValues is a global list and so neither one is expanded nor shown.

Concepts

List Item Expansion

Other Resources

Defining Field Lists