topic Re: IF statement for "Values" (SOLVED BEFORE I POSTED THIS) in Libraries & objects

IF statement for "Values" (SOLVED BEFORE I POSTED THIS)

Anonymous — Sun, 20 Mar 2016 17:14:22 GMT

I have a list of values for a parameter. For example;
VALUES "Number" 'One', 'Two', 'Three', 'Four'

What I would like to know is if there is a simple way for an IF/OR statement to include all the values in one shot. The way I do it now is;
IF Number = "One" OR Number = "Two" or (and so on)

Something like IF Number = "Any of its values" THEN ............

So as I was writing this post I had a thought which seems to have worked the way I wanted it to. Basically if the Number parameter is not empty then do something.
IF Number <> "" THEN ............

I figured I'd continue with the post in case it might help someone else and to see if maybe there are other thoughts on this.

Doug

Re: IF statement for "Values" (SOLVED BEFORE I POS

Barry Kelly — Mon, 21 Mar 2016 01:13:23 GMT

Why bother with the IF/THEN statement at all if it doesn't matter what the value of Number is?

Unless you are allowing for a blank value (i.e. VALUES "Number" 'One', 'Two', 'Three', 'Four', '' or VALUES "Number" 'One', 'Two', 'Three', 'Four', Custom)

Barry.

Re: IF statement for "Values" (SOLVED BEFORE I POSTED THIS)

Nader Belal — Mon, 04 Nov 2019 02:53:06 GMT

Hi @Barry

I was wondering if there was a way to use snippet that you have just shared with custom values but with values{2} instead of values ?

Re: IF statement for "Values" (SOLVED BEFORE I POSTED THIS)

Barry Kelly — Tue, 05 Nov 2019 01:43:05 GMT

Moonlight wrote:
I was wondering if there was a way to use snippet that you have just shared with custom values but with values{2} instead of values ?

I haven't used a lot of VALUES{2} in my coding - haven't really had the need.
But I don't think you can use CUSTOM (or RANGE ?) with VALUES{2} because you are linking a value definition with an expression, so it is not something that the user can input as a custom value.

Barry.

Re: IF statement for "Values" (SOLVED BEFORE I POSTED THIS)

Nader Belal — Tue, 05 Nov 2019 18:07:39 GMT

Thank you for the confirmation @Barry Kelly

The only way to make it using "Custom" is by creating another parameter that is only activated when the parameter associated with value{2} have the string value of custom