How to get the selected options from a multiselect?

Suite and Optimus Suite 5
#1

Hi I’m trying to get the multiselection to work. I naad the text that the user selected from the multiselect.

I tried the myForm.getItemValue() but it returns only the position of the selected items.
I need the text that they have seleced.

Then I tried the myForm.getOptions() to a variable but when I display that variable I only get [object HTMLSelectElement]

Anything else I can try?

Thx
I’m using the 4.0.1 pro version

#2

Unfortunately, there is no way to access the initial data objects, used for multiselect construction. API provides only value of selected options.

#3

Hmm thx for the response.

Any other things I can try? What I need is a way to let the user select a “n” number of options ( loaded from a xml file) and I need the text value of what they selected.

What I had in mind is to itterate over the choosen selections and set it in a variable. Then use that variable as a part of a little mySQL statement.

#4

You can use getOptions API, which will return the related set of HTML options, now you can iterate through this collection and convert IDs to text label ( while options objects are different from the initial JSON structure, they contain information about value and text of each option )