Variable Operations

[Stevem]

Nice going guys. Love the Visualize view and Workflows.

Quick question, in variable operation, what type of operations are supported?

-Steve

[forumsupport]

Hello,

Variable Operations supports expressions, calculations as well as date arithmetic. You can use Variable Operation command to work with the variable assignment. You can assign the value to a variable. The right hand side of the equal to operator can be a regular operation for e.g. you can specify something like $var1$ = ( $var2$ + $var5$ - 10 ) / 5.

This command supports (, ), /, *, + and - operands. The left and right parentheses take the precedence and the operation within them is evaluated first from left to right.

In the subsequent example ($Var1$ + 5) * ($Var2$ -10), ($Var1$ + 5) will be evaluated first, then ($Var2$ -10) and the result of both will be multiplied together and assigned to the variable specified on the left hand side of the equal to sign.

Using Variable Operation command you can increment the value of a variable by one without using $Counter$, convert the value of a variable into thousands, get yesterday's date as a variable and much more.

[Stevem]

Can you do variable++ to increament, or variable + 1.
How do you convert value of a variable into thousands?

[forumsupport]

Hello,

To increment the value of a variable by 1 without using $Counter$, please follow the steps given below.

• Open the Task Editor from Tools->Task Editor.
• Double click on 'Variable Operations'.
• On the left hand side of the 'equal to' sign, press F2 and insert the variable whose value you want to increment by 1.
• On the right hand side of the 'equal to' sign, press F2 and again insert the variable whose value you want to increment by 1.
• Type '+1' after the variable.
• Click 'Save' button.

To convert the value of a variable into thousands, please follow the steps
given below:

• Open the Task Editor from Tools->Task Editor.
• Double click on 'Variable Operations'
• On the left hand side of the 'equal to' sign, press F2 and insert the variable whose value you want to convert into thousands.
• On the right hand side of the 'equal to' sign, press F2 and again insert the variable whose value you want to convert in to thousands.
• Type '/ 1000' after the variable
• Click 'Save' button.