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Working with Text Variables
I am creating a course that three different agencies are taking. Each one calls their prison population a different word - offender, inmate or juvenile which I have placed in another variable calle...
Hi, Susan.
Thank you for reaching out!
While there is no trigger to capitalize the first letter of a variable or reference, you might be able to achieve that with Javascript. I'm looking forward to the suggestions you will receive from our talented community members, but in the meantime, I wanted to offer a "low-tech" alternative:
- Add a second population variable with the same words as the first but in their capitalized form.
- Population = {inmate, offender, juvenile}
- Population_StartSentence = {Inmate, Offender, Juvenile}
- The triggers that adjust the first variable can be duplicated to adjust the second.
- You would then reference the second variable (Population_StartSentence) the three times they have to be capitalized.
Here's an example, which I am also attaching as a .story file:
I ended up adding a second variable for the capital. I was just thinking I was missing something simple. Guess not, thanks for your help!
Susan Johnson
Staff Development Specialist
Office of Staff Development and Training
Physical Address: 2211 Schieffelin Road | Apex, NC 27502
Mailing Address: MSC-4213 | Raleigh, NC 27699-4213
(o): 919-589-5423 | (f) 919-303-2922 | (e) susan.johnson@ncdps.gov
https://www.ncdps.gov/adult-corrections/staff-development-training
Happy Maria was able to help you out, Susan, and thanks for stopping back by to share what the outcome was!
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