Reference Item names in Equipment editor?

Nick Dacek over 2 years ago

Hey Guys,

Real quick, is there a way to reference the item name in the equipment editor?

Trying to build a bunch of equipment and data types. Being able to reference the equipment name would save me some time.

Currently my tag name looks like this: {equipment.IODEVICE}_HGC_PRM_BOOL_19

Where I wish i could put {equipment.IODEVICE}_HGC_{equipment.ItemName}

Thoughts?
Thanks guys!

-Nick

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STUART over 2 years ago in reply to Nick Dacek +1

This is a great idea, Nick Dacek . I don't think it's possible at the moment, though I would love to be proven wrong. It is in the spirit of DRY programming (as opposed to WET) which I wholeheartedly endorse…
Patrick over 2 years ago in reply to STUART +1

And now would be a good time for this idea as I believe some product development is focusing on equipment right now. I'll vote for it as well.
Patrick over 2 years ago in reply to Jacky Lang +1

It's the manual editing he tries to avoid, and that makes sense. A lot of copy-paste errors and typos occur just because of that manual editing. Having a placeholder for the item name makes duplicating…

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Patrick over 2 years ago

Have you tried using the syntax {type.name} yet? Because that's how it is defined in the xml if I'm not mistaken. If this does not work, I agree with STUART to raise an idea in the ideas forum. I'll vote for that as well.
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Patrick over 2 years ago

Have you tried using the syntax {type.name} yet? Because that's how it is defined in the xml if I'm not mistaken. If this does not work, I agree with STUART to raise an idea in the ideas forum. I'll vote for that as well.
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STUART over 2 years ago in reply to Patrick

I tried a few permutations, Patrick , but if Jacky thinks it can't be done at the moment, I'm not going to argue!
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