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variables can be display without a field

Inky Phil
in Community Videos, Tips, & Techniques, Articles.

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Forgive me if everybody already knows this but I didn't.

I am only just getting to grips with the wonderful world of variables.

Roaming round the forum I was under the impression that globals could only be used for storing info and that a field would have to be created to display the info.

Whilst that is true if one wants to show the variable on a layout I have just discovered that a variable or variables can be displayed in a custom dialogue and can be formatted along with other text in a message of up to 4 lines.

See attached for example.

You never know when it might come in handy

Phil

view_a_variable.zip

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oops!! - forgot attachment

Hi Inky Phil !

thanks

that's a great way for non FM 8 Advanced users to make theire own dataviewer !

Hi

nice !

This is a variation of your THEMA, showing the difference between $ and $$

view_a_variable2.zip

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Glad it was of interest.

Ohgo, It was the fact that the variable was viewable in the data viewer that made me look for alternative ways of displaying it.

Phil

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