How to get label of choice field in Dataverse Plugin

Sanjaya Pradhan dataverse October 4, 2024 | 0

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When working with Dataverse, you may need to retrieve the label of a choice column in a plugin instead of the underlying integer value. The labels provide more meaningful information to end-users than the integer values. In this post, I’ll walk you through how to achieve this in a Dataverse plugin.

What is a Choice Column in Dataverse?

A Choice (also known as Option Set) column in Dataverse allows users to pick values from a predefined list. Under the hood, Dataverse stores these selections as integers, with each integer representing a specific label.

For example, consider a column named Status:

1 = Active
2 = Inactive

While these integer values are useful for processing in plugins, you’ll often need to present or log the label to make the plugin output user-friendly.

Watch the video to learn. You ahve to use myval=entity.FormattedValues[“<choicefieldlogicalname>”];