How to access a column by its programmatic name in Java?

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I’m running through a ViewEntryCollection and would like to get the column values of specific columns for each entry.

Is there a way to get the column values by using the programmatic name?

Thanks a lot for your help!

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Subject: How to access a column by its programmatic name in Java?

I think you have to use the ColumnValues property of the ViewEntry and loop through it.

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Subject: RE: How to access a column by its programmatic name in Java?

Thanks for your quick response.

The problem using the columnValue property is (if i understood it right), that i have no means of knowing which column of a view the value belongs to since it does not return the values of ui-functions, constants.

I have the following usage scenario:

Step 1:

Someone specifies the data of which column he wants as an output → some kind of column identifier is saved

Step 2:

at some point a java background class is supposed to get the value of the specified column for certain view entries

Using the programmtic name as an identifier would be helpful since it clearly identifies the column.

Using the column index doesn’t work since the column index in the frontend is different to the column index in the backend (well, at least to the index of the value in the columnValues vector)

Others ideas than to use the programmtic name to solve this problem are also welcome!