Code to get list of a custom field's values (almost there)

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Hi Guys, Looking for some advice on a script to fetch list of a custom field’s values. At the moment it’s printing "RT::CustomFieldValue=HASH(0x91f22b0)”. I’m obviously missing something silly and would really appreciate a guru’s touch!

my $clientcustomfield = RT::CustomFieldValues->new($RT::SystemUser);
$clientcustomfield->LimitToCustomField(45);

my $clients = $clientcustomfield;

while (my $client = $clients->Next ) {
print $client;
print “\n”;
}

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Roman Massey

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In this case, $client is a reference to a hash. You can’t print it
directly, but you can print the contents using Data::Dumper.

I think this should work:

use Data::Dumper;
my $clientcustomfield = RT::CustomFieldValues->new($RT::SystemUser);
$clientcustomfield->LimitToCustomField(45);

my $clients = $clientcustomfield;

while (my $client = $clients->Next ) {
print dumper $client;
print “\n”;
}On Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 10:23 PM, Roman Massey romanmassey@gmail.com wrote:

Hi Guys, Looking for some advice on a script to fetch list of a custom
field’s values. At the moment it’s
printing "RT::CustomFieldValue=HASH(0x91f22b0)”. I’m obviously missing
something silly and would really appreciate a guru’s touch!

my $clientcustomfield = RT::CustomFieldValues->new($RT::SystemUser);
$clientcustomfield->LimitToCustomField(45);

my $clients = $clientcustomfield;

while (my $client = $clients->Next ) {
print $client;
print “\n”;
}

—
Roman Massey

3

Thanks Barton!

That wasn’t exactly what I wanted but it helped me figure it out! btw I had to capitalize Dumper in “print Dumper $client;” for it to work. But seeing everything that came out of the “dumper” let me know the innards of the RT::CustomFieldValue.

The code I ended up using:

my $clientcustomfield = RT::CustomFieldValues->new($RT::SystemUser);
$clientcustomfield->LimitToCustomField(45);

my $clients = $clientcustomfield;

while (my $client = $clients->Next ) {
print $client->Name;
print “\n”;
}

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Roman Massey> On Jul 2, 2015, at 7:41 AM, Barton Chittenden barton@bywatersolutions.com wrote:

In this case, $client is a reference to a hash. You can’t print it directly, but you can print the contents using Data::Dumper.

I think this should work:

use Data::Dumper;
my $clientcustomfield = RT::CustomFieldValues->new($RT::SystemUser);
$clientcustomfield->LimitToCustomField(45);

my $clients = $clientcustomfield;

while (my $client = $clients->Next ) {
print dumper $client;
print “\n”;
}

On Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 10:23 PM, Roman Massey <romanmassey@gmail.com mailto:romanmassey@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Guys, Looking for some advice on a script to fetch list of a custom field’s values. At the moment it’s printing "RT::CustomFieldValue=HASH(0x91f22b0)”. I’m obviously missing something silly and would really appreciate a guru’s touch!

my $clientcustomfield = RT::CustomFieldValues->new($RT::SystemUser);
$clientcustomfield->LimitToCustomField(45);

my $clients = $clientcustomfield;

while (my $client = $clients->Next ) {
print $client;
print “\n”;
}

—
Roman Massey

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