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Getting Entity Names for dynamic types

r_weber
DynaMight Champion
DynaMight Champion

This will likely become a product idea, but asking nevertheless:
Is there a way to use the DQL function entityName() with a dynamic or without a type?

Imagine the following:

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I have a field that contains the entity ID, from which I want to get the entityName. But to get the name via the entityName() function I also need to specify the type of the entity. This parameter has to be a constant string. So even if I can manually determine the entity.type (line 5) I cannot use this as parameter in the function.

Idea: the entityName() function should be able to determine the type of a given entityId by itself (make the type parameter optional. Of course this will only work for built-in entities but not for custom entities, but it would tremendously help for such usecases.
Or is there another convenient solution that does not require lots of "IFs"?

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