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Merged properties expression

Kaspars — Fri, 02 Jul 2021 12:49:57 GMT

Hello,
i'm developing Archicad template now, and wanted to set expression based properties using CONCAT function for door taging/naming by merging different "option set" based properties. Can someone help how to solve situation when one of the basic parameters sometimes should be set "undefined" and thus in the expression based CONCAT function property that one field don't have to be included.
Problem is- the whole expression based value is changing to <undefined> if one of parameters is set as "undefined". For example sometimes i want type of the door to be named "FDR-G" but for other doors just "FDR" without additional option set property included.

Hope my question is somewhat understandable,
Thx,
Kaspars

Re: Merged properties expression

runxel — Fri, 02 Jul 2021 13:07:04 GMT

Thats what `ISUNDEFINED ( )` is for.

Which AC version are you working on? I'm not sure if that command was there from the beginning (e.g. `IFS` was also added later...).

Re: Merged properties expression

Kaspars — Fri, 02 Jul 2021 13:13:59 GMT

I'm developing template now in AC 24
So, if expression line now goes
CONCAT ( Property1; "-";Property2 )
then how do I use that 'ISUNDEFINED' to disable not used subProperty?

Thx,
Kaspars

Re: Merged properties expression

runxel — Fri, 02 Jul 2021 14:27:32 GMT

Like this:


concat (
	if (
		isundefined ({Property:YourGroup/Prop1});
		"";
		{Property:YourGroup/Prop1}
	);
	if (
		or (
			isundefined ({Property:YourGroup/Prop1});
			isundefined ({Property:YourGroup/Prop2})
		);
		"";
		"–"
	);
	if (
		isundefined ({Property:YourGroup/Prop2});
		"";
		{Property:YourGroup/Prop2}
	)
)

Re: Merged properties expression

Kaspars — Mon, 05 Jul 2021 06:36:25 GMT

Thx a lot,
i'm new to expressions,
will try to figure out logic behind those lines

Kaspars