'XS' qState meaning

[dselgo_eidex]

Hello, I was looking at the different qStates a field could have and I saw the option for 'XS' described here (link) as EXCL_SELECTED (excluded selected). 

My guess is that this means that the value was selected, but is currently being excluded by a different field selection. If this is the case, I would further assume the qState would change to 'S' if the conflicting field was cleared. Could I get comfirmation and/or insight into this? Thanks.

[Gysbert_Wassenaar · Accepted solution]

Yes, that's correct.

[dselgo_eidex]

Awesome, thanks for confirming.

[dselgo_eidex]

So I actually got a chance to test this out and I don't think the behavior is what I described above.

In my app I selected a value on a Field A, and then selected an excluded value on Field B. At that point, the selection on Field A was canceled out. What I expected was for the qState of Field A to change to 'XS', but instead it just changed to 'X'. When I clear my selection on Field B, the qState on Field A changed to 'O'.

With this information, it appears that 'XS' does not mean what I described above. Could it instead be that 'XS' means the Field value was selected by hitting the 'Select Excluded' button?

[Gysbert_Wassenaar · Accepted solution]

No, it is selected excluded. Let me give you an example. Here I have regions and the sales persons active in those regions.Ok, let's select Jason and John:

Jason and John are now Selected. That's the S state .  Keith, Kevin and Patrick now have the Alternative state (A). N Ireland, Scotland and Wales have the Excluded (X) state.

Now we'll Select England and this will cause John to be Selected Excluded, the XS state:

 

Finally we'll select another Region that's incompatible with the selected sales persons. This selection will clear the selected values in the SalesPerson field. Also the sales persons Keith and Patrick will get the Optional selection state, ie the O state.

[dselgo_eidex]

Ok, I get it now. Thank you for that great explanation and example.

My initial assumption was that when you selected Scotland, it would be at that point that Jason and John would be set to XS instead of clearing the field and that was what I was testing for.