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How can I pull a list of lookup table keys? If there is a way do they come in any particular order or is it random?

Also, somewhat unrelated, how can I store a pre-defined array in a lookup?

Thanks!

Hi @Lanthade
The implementation of a lookup is not something that DashBoard exposes to the scripting layer. I can confirm for you that there is no guarantee of order in the internal implementation.

There are quite a few other ways to keep track of information in the scripting layer - params or JSON objects are likely a good fit depending on what you are trying to achieve. If you do need to do a lookup, storing something like a "lookup.elementcount" and then iterating over your lookup entries based on what you stored in your element count would be a potential workaround.

A lookup is just a key/value pair of strings - you should be able to fill them with whatever you want as long as you serialize them to a string. If you want the ability to modify your data, parameters are a better choice. If you want temporary data, then ogScript/JSON would be a good fit. A lookup works best with static information you need to access in your panel.

<abs contexttype="opengear">
   <meta>
      <lookup id="test">
         <entry key="mylookup.elementcount">3</entry>
         <entry key="mylookup.element.0.name">First</entry>
         <entry key="mylookup.element.1.name">Second</entry>
         <entry key="mylookup.element.2.name">Third</entry>
      </lookup>
      <ogscript handles="onload">var count = parseInt(ogscript.getPrivateString('test', 'mylookup.elementcount'));
var str = "Got " + count + " elements:\n";
for (var i = 0; i &lt; count; i++)
{
   str += ogscript.getPrivateString('test', 'mylookup.element.' + i + '.name') + "\n";
}

ogscript.rename('output', str);
</ogscript>
   </meta>
   <label height="271" id="output" left="12" style="txt-align:center;" top="31" width="440"/>
</abs>

Cheers.

James

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