Derive name of application of type "Text" from constant of type "Application"

RE: Derive name of application of type "Text" from constant of type "Application"

steveb — Tue, 09 Aug 2016 11:45:11 GMT

Thanks for your help on this. I'll do some more testing of it, but it is certainly far more elegant than the clunky solution I thought I'd have to go with :)

RE: Derive name of application of type "Text" from constant of type "Application"

chrism967 — Mon, 08 Aug 2016 23:40:38 GMT

btw, the Len local does nothing, its whilst i was experimenting, and i mean 16.2! :-)

RE: Derive name of application of type "Text" from constant of type "Application"

chrism967 — Mon, 08 Aug 2016 23:29:55 GMT

Just to add this is thoroughly untested and relies on the Object properties being displayed consistanly in the same order (well, UUID after the Name anyway). I have no idea if this is 100% the case

RE: Derive name of application of type "Text" from constant of type "Application"

chrism967 — Mon, 08 Aug 2016 23:28:55 GMT

Not elegant but demo's the point. Not sure if there is a proper function or not as i've not had chance to play with 16.3 yet

= load(
local!myText: tostring(getcontentobjectdetailsbyid( cons!YourConstant))
,
local!NamePos: find("Name:", myText )
,
local!UUIDPos: find("UUID:", myText )
,
local!myTextLen: len(local!myText)

,

mid(local!myText, local!NamePos +5, local!UUIDPos - local!NamePos - 7 )

)