hi,

In Pega 7, please create a data page with the source as the same activity. Then use pxDropDown as the control and the source of this can be referred to as the data page. 

Alternatively, if the dynamic select is just getting the data from a table, please create a report definition for the same and use the report definition as the source instead. 

Regards,

Anusheel Mishra.

Thanks Anusheel for your response.

Thats what we thought of doing that, as clipboard page may not right solution. We have created Datapage and populate those value/

Regards,
Anandh

Hi Anandh,

You can also use normal clipboard page as an option. When you  select this option, you will get to call a activity. Here you can call your activity which you already created for your dynamic select. Just make a small change in the activity by commenting the Show methods.

The suggestion below attempts to address  "what is the best approach for the conversion..." in Anandh’s initial post.

Post-upgrading a 6.X application to 7.1.9 we built a data table (called DropDownValues) that stores the values of all the drop downs found in the application.

Whenever a dropdown requires values for rendering the UI it refers to a data page ( Structure = list ).

This data page has its data source set as a Report Definition ( requires a string parameter ).

The report definition uses the parameter supplied to query the DropDownValues to fetch the relevant results for the concerned dropdown.

In the earlier versions of PRPC; 'datapages' aka 'declarepages' were not sophisticated enough to do this however this 'design pattern' is possible now in P7.

Hello

I agree with VAMSIRISHNA, using 'Clipboard Page' and calling the same old activity can be done with the least changes made. If your application have huge number of dynamic selects with activity, changing all of them to Data Pages will take huge amount of time. Instead we can choose Clipboard Page and call the old activity to populate the page, only few changes we have to do in the Activity are comment 'Show-Page' and 'Page-Remove' steps.

Regards,

Sandeep

Where are you getting the option to call the "old activity" ?

I have another question on using the activity to create a clipboard page for the dropdown.  As previously stated, the existing activity is used to create a top level page and the activity no longer removes the page.  Is it the case that the top level page created will live in the user session until the user session expires?  If it is indeed the case, do you do Page-Remove when user leaves the screen when they click Submit or Cancel button?

Thanks

You can refer https://docs-previous.pega.com/pega-7-platform-ui-element-upgrade-guide which has more details for most of the controls / usecases

In Pega 7.2 I do not see any option to enter the Activity Name when we select the Clipboard Page, the only options we get is: Clipboard Page name and the Property For Value, please help