Comments on: Display a CRM 4.0 PickList Display-Value in Reports and Queries

By: withersdavid75

withersdavid75 — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 21:25:28 +0000

FYI added:
AND (MetadataSchema.Entity.CustomizationLevel > 0)
now it works fine

By: withersdavid75

withersdavid75 — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 20:51:44 +0000

This does not work on Account sadly
I have a custom field named new_claimsystem
SELECT
dbo.MapPickList(‘account’, ‘new_claimsystem’, New_ClaimSystem) AS ClaimSystem

FROM Account

Gives error:
Msg 512, Level 16, State 1, Line 1
Subquery returned more than 1 value. This is not permitted when the subquery follows =, !=, <, , >= or when the subquery is used as an expression.

By: JMF

JMF — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 14:19:35 +0000

What’s the point of using ‘like’ in the query instead of ‘=’?

By: C. List

C. List — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 13:41:00 +0000

…Well I’m a little late to the party here, but I just wanted to say that I agree with your method, and I came to the same conclusion; that a function like this is need – on my own. I call mine “dbo.f_GetPicklistValue” – but the parameters and method are the same. I also created the reverse function;
dbo.f_GetPicklistAttributeValue
…which takes a string as the last parm and returns the integer stored in the database for the picklist, allowing me to do something like…

SELECT LastName, FirstName
FROM Contact
WHERE ShoeSize = dbo.f_GetPicklistAttributeValue(‘contact’, ‘shoesize’, ’9.5′)

Cheers,
Chris List

By: Masahiro

Masahiro — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 09:38:40 +0000

GJ!
It helped my task!

By: Matthew

Matthew — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 18:53:46 +0000

Thanks, this helped a lot!

A somewhat related question – when you have a duration field in CRM, CRM stores this value in minutes, whereas, from the front end it displays it as “15 minutes”, “30 minutes”…”1 day”, “2 days”, etc.

I’m using SQL Reporting Services to develop a report. Is there a way I can convert the duration field in CRM (in minutes) to “15 minutes”, “30 minutes”, “1 day”, “2 days” etc.?

By: mark allen

mark allen — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 23:01:19 +0000

Hi
I think i’m having this issue.
I created a new entity, and when i use excel to query the table, MS Query, it shows the integer value of the picklist and not the description. how can i get around this?
thanks
mark

By: osubrenden

osubrenden — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 21:03:46 +0000

Hi Ibrahim, I’m glad you commented because it reminds me to mention why I didn’t use a filtered view which is the Microsoft recommendation for reporting. Filtered views in complex custom CRM application with large numbers of custom entity’s have very high overhead and are not efficient at all. This function offers a way to get a sleek very efficient resultset.

By: Ibrahim

Ibrahim — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 00:21:13 +0000

I find if you select the records from the filtered view it would be much easier:

SELECT LastName, FirstName, ShoeSize

FROM Contact