Text-entry Blanks vs Misspellings
Mar 08, 2016
I'm working on a course and its Triggers are not working as I'd hope for my text-entry box variables.
I have two Triggers. Here they are:
As you can see, these triggers are meant to Show different layers. However, they are going to the same layer, that layer being Misspelled "TEB with SM and Add". I'm assuming the problem lies in the teb_step_1_name_collaboration variable registering as the same outcome.
Does "!=Not equal to" mean a misspelling? Does "==Equal to (ignore case)" mean a blank?
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Hi, Vanessa -- Thanks for reaching out here, and this post, What is '==Equal to (ignore case)' for? can hopefully shed a bit more light!
I appreciate the link, but that hasn't helped with my issue. The issue being why does my first trigger act as if ==Equal to (ignore case) [blank] is the same as !=Not equal to
Hi, Vanessa -- Thanks for your reply, and I decided to reach out to a few of my colleagues to see if they had any additional insights to offer. From what I was gather, using not equal to should trigger for anything not equal to Collaboration, but leaving it blank would not equal Collaboration. so that may be the issue. And may I ask if it is not working when you type another word in as well?
You may also want to share you file so we can take a closer look.
That's really odd. And, yes, it's not working when I type other words.
Thanks for looking at this!
Hi Vanessa,
Thanks for sharing the file. I do not see the layer Mispelled TB with SM and Add. Is there a newer version of the file? Or was this layer removed? I also see Collaboration and Collaborator as answers. Which on is correct? I will try and figure out what is going on with the file.
Thanks for looking into this, Emily! I renamed layer "Misspelled TEB with SM and Add" to " Misspelled TEB only".
I noticed part of the problem was the misuse of Collaboration vs Collaborator. I corrected it to make sure the correct text-entry is Collaboration. However, the same problem still exists between ==Equal to (ignore case) [blank] is acting the same as !=Not equal to
Thanks for the input Vanessa. i will update the text to Collaboration in the file and see if I can figure out what is going on.
I will post here with updates.
Hi Vanessa,
I pulled your file into a new file to play with the 2 triggers for these 2 layers. It appears you need to add another condition in the show layer trigger for Misspelled TEB only of "teb_step_1_name_collaboration is NOT Equal to (blank) to get this to work properly. So if it is blank, SM and Add will show. See attached.
Sorry for my late reply! And thank you soooo much for your help. I can't believe I didn't see that earlier!!
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