# Getting selected value from Month View

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/getting-selected-value-from-month-view/16156>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [November 28, 2017, 8:57pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/getting-selected-value-from-month-view/16156 "2017-11-28T20:57:14Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Micky.Franks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c57346/32.png) [@Micky.Franks](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Micky.Franks)\
**Post date:** [November 28, 2017, 8:57pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/getting-selected-value-from-month-view/16156/1 "2017-11-28T20:57:14Z")

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How do I go about getting a certain column from the month view dataset for the selected row?

I want to get the idcontracts value from the selected row from this dataset of the Month View componet.

 ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/2X/b/b7e4270a734c623bee5e560169d818585e5abdde.png)

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**Author:** ![jpark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a88e57/32.png) [@jpark](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/jpark)\
**Post date:** [November 28, 2017, 9:17pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/getting-selected-value-from-month-view/16156/2 "2017-11-28T21:17:40Z")

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```auto
try(
	{Root Container.Month View.events}[{Root Container.Month View.selectedEvent},"idcontracts"]
,-1)

```