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Using the Skip character in a recordset

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Using the Skip character in a recordset

The following are expected behavior of Certify when dealing with a ^ character.

1. If the ^ character is entered in a field as literal, the ^ will be treated as a "^" character. The step will not be skipped.
2. If the ^ character is passed via a variable's initial value, the ^ will be treated as a "^" character. The step will not be skipped.
3. If the ^ character is passed via a text variable (driven by a recordset), the ^ in the recordset will be treated as a skip character. The step will be skipped - unless one of the following conditions is true.

  A. The variable is used in an inward parameter, e.g., Results.
  B. The variable value is changed to something else earlier in the execution.

 

 

Recent Comments

By: Scott Rudolph Posted on 14 Jul 2011 10:55

I believe number 3 is true for all variables; not only text variables.

By: atracy Posted on 27 Jul 2011 4:49 PM

There are times that I'd like to be able to use do a text compare that the variable is equal to ^ so I can jump past the next few steps in the script, but currently, the text verify step is also just skipped.  This is causing me to not be able to use the ^ in some of my scripts and I have to just leave them blank which is causing inconsistencies in my recordset and I have to tell people that they can mostly use the ^ symbol, but on some fields, they have to use blank so I can test for the blank value and skip the steps if it is blank.

Is there any way we could make the System > System > Text > Compare action not skip if it's a ^ coming in from a recordset?

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