Re-Use a User-Date in User Defined Tool Topic is solved

[OLLI_S]

Hello,

I have created a User Defined Tool that creates a new email in Outlook and fills all fields of the mail (To, CC, Subject, Body) with data stored in the ToDoList.
I have now a button in the toolbar that creates the email.

In the command I also have a date prompt, that asks for a date and pastes it in the subject:

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$(userdate, var_date1, "Date prompt")

I want to re-use this variable a second time in my body, how can I perform this?

Best regards

OLLI

[abstr]

Just reference it as '$(var_date1)'

[OLLI_S]

Hello Daniel,

thank you, this is working.

Under usability aspects: maybe you add the "Insert Variable" to the Popup-Menu in the User-Defined-Tool-Editor?
So users can select the menu entry and just need to replace the variable name.

Best regards

OLLI

[abstr]

maybe you add the "Insert Variable" to the Popup-Menu in the User-Defined-Tool-Editor?

My preference would be to add to the menu only those user-variables already defined so there would be no confusion about what 'Insert Variable' might mean.

ie. For those of a programming leaning they might expect to be able to assign a value to it and then do some sort of scripting, whereas we're only talking about re-referencing an existing variable.

Good idea, I'll add it to 7.3!