Hi Shin,

For reusability you could consider storing each alphabet record in a static entity called alphabets that you would then pull in your screen preparation as a list. This would circumvent you having to ListAppend individual records.

Hi,

Can you please, let me know you are storing data in DB by doing list append or you are displaying some where in the screen?

Regards,

Rajat

Hi @Shin S 

you don't need to use ListAppend 26 times to create a list of the alphabet in Outsystems. You can simplify the process using a loop or by converting the character codes to their corresponding letters.

Here's one approach using a loop:

1. Create a list of strings to hold the alphabet.
2. Use a For Each loop to iterate through the ASCII codes for letters 'A' to 'Z' (which range from 65 to 90 for uppercase, or 97 to 122 for lowercase).
3. Convert the ASCII codes to characters and append each character to the list.

In Outsystems, you can achieve this using the Chr() function to convert ASCII values to characters inside a loop. This will allow you to populate the list of the alphabet without appending each letter manually. 

Please mention if you need anything specific,

I wouldn't do something as expensive as a static entity for this. 

2 options that are compact

• ListAppendAll

• String_Split

Dorine

Since you asked for a 'smarter or easier way,' I would recommend the String_Split method suggested by @Dorine Boudry  as the perfect solution.

If you need a String_Split on the client side please see this discussion for a solution as there is no direct method available and has to be done in JavaScript ( refer the comment by @Stefan Weber).