Question: I have an array of US state values: const states = { AL: ‘Alabama’, AK: ‘Alaska’ , AS: ‘American Samoa’, AZ: ‘Arizona’, AR: ‘Arkansas’, CA: ‘California’ I need to set a custom list field of states on a customer. If I get the value of the customer shipping state, like AZ, how do I set the custom field text to ‘Arizona’ using the array to look it up?

const states = {
 AL: ‘Alabama’,
 AK: ‘Alaska’ ,
 AS: ‘American Samoa’,
 AZ: ‘Arizona’,
 AR: ‘Arkansas’,
 CA: ‘California’,
  ...
};

is an Object, not an Array, and the distinction is important. If you have

'AZ'

, then you would get

'Arizona'

with

states['AZ']

.

Hey Eric! That would be what I want. So in: rec.setText({ How do I confugure this?

@battk Thanks! That worked like a charm after I got the hang of it: const state = {}; state[‘AL’] = ‘Alabama’; state[‘AK’] = ‘Alaska’ ; state[‘AS’] = ‘American Samoa’; state[‘AZ’] = ‘Arizona’; state[‘AR’] = ‘Arkansas’; state[‘CA’] = ‘California’; state[‘CO’] = ‘Colorado’; state[‘CT’] = ‘Connecticut’; state[‘DE’] = ‘Delaware’; state[‘DC’] = ‘District of Columbia’; state[‘FL’] = ‘Florida’; state[‘GA’] = ‘Georgia’; state[‘GU’] = ‘Guam’; state[‘HI’] = ‘Hawaii’; state[‘ID’] = ‘Idaho’; state[‘IL’] = ‘Illinois’; state[‘IN’] = ‘Indiana’; state[‘IA’] = ‘Iowa’; state[‘KS’] = ‘Kansas’; state[‘KY’] = ‘Kentucky’; state[‘LA’] = ‘Louisiana’; state[‘ME’] = ‘Maine’; state[‘MD’] = ‘Maryland’; state[‘MA’] = ‘Massachusetts’; state[‘MI’] = ‘Michigan’; state[‘MN’] = ‘Minnesota’; state[‘MS’] = ‘Mississippi’; state[‘MO’] = ‘Missouri’; state[‘MT’] = ‘Montana’; state[‘NE’] = ‘Nebraska’; state[‘NV’] = ‘Nevada’; state[‘NH’] = ‘New Hampshire’; state[‘NJ’] = ‘New Jersey’; state[‘NM’] = ‘New Mexico’; state[‘NY’] = ‘New York’; state[‘NC’] = ‘North Carolina’; state[‘ND’] = ‘North Dakota’; state[‘OH’] = ‘Ohio’; state[‘OK’] = ‘Oklahoma’; state[‘OR’] = ‘Oregon’; state[‘PA’] = ‘Pennsylvania’; state[‘PR’] = ‘Puerto Rico’; state[‘RI’] = ‘Rhode Island’; state[‘SC’] = ‘South Carolina’; state[‘SD’] = ‘South Dakota’; state[‘TN’] = ‘Tennessee’; state[‘TX’] = ‘Texas’; state[‘UT’] = ‘Utah’; state[‘VT’] = ‘Vermont’; state[‘VI’] = ‘Virgin Islands’; state[‘VA’] = ‘Virginia’; state[‘WA’] = ‘Washington’; state[‘WV’] = ‘West Virginia’; state[‘WI’] = ‘Wisconsin’; state[‘WY’] = ‘Wyoming’; var shippingState = subrec.getValue({ fieldId: ‘state’ }); var myState = state[shippingState]; log.debug({ title: shippingZip + ' ' + shippingState + ' ' + myState }); contactNewRecord.setText({ fieldId: ‘custentity_cust_us_state’, text: myState });

Curious, why didn't you just define your state constant directly rather than that verbose way? i.e.

const states = {
 AL: 'Alabama',
 AK: 'Alaska' ,

etc

@NElliott I did that based on the article battk sent me.

it was the documentation on how to access properties, not how you should initialize it

Thanks again @battk! The reason for this was the company wanted a custom search filter that eliminated all countries except the US for states and wanted to use the long state name. This script helped in accomplishing that.