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Specifying an Input/Output Variable

About this task

The native behavior of the Simple Cheat Sheet Editor does not allow you to specify a variable to hold the return value for a command, which other commands may need as input. To remedy this, you need to add the output parameter manually using a text or XML editor.

Procedure

  1. Right-click the cheat sheet's xml file in the Navigator and select Open With > Text Editor. You may use your preferred text or XML editor instead, if desired.
  2. Locate the line that identifies the Create a New Project or Select a Project command: 
    <command serialization="NewProjectCommand" confirm="false">

    or

    <command serialization="ProjectSelectionCommand" confirm="false">
  3. Insert the parameter returns=”variable_name" where variable_name is the variable you selected in step 7 under Specifying commands for cheat sheet steps. Be sure this matches exactly; the variable name is case-sensitive. In the example for step 7, we used the input variable ${valuesMap}. The text below shows how the valuesMap variable was added to the command line in the XML file. 
    <?xml version=”1.0” encoding=”UTF-8”?>
<cheatsheet title=”Select a project”>
<intro>
<description>
<b>This cheat sheet opens the Select an Initiate Project 
dialog.</b>
</description>
</intro>
<item title=”Select the project” dialog=”true” skip=”false”>
<description>
This step opens the &quot;Select Initiate Project and Hub&quot; 
dialog, enabling...
</description>
<command serialization=”ProjectSelectionCommand” returns=”valuesMap” 
confirm=”false”>
</command>
</item>
  4. Save the .XML file and close the text editor.
Parent topic: Specifying commands for cheat sheet steps

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Timestamp Last updated: 19 Feb 2014

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