custom template that return one value

[Daniel Gavrila]

Hello,

Is it  possible  for a custom template to return one value ?
If yes, I would like to have a small sample.


Many thanks,
Daniel


 

[qwerty]

What?

q.

[Geert Bellekens]

So it's not me, there are others that don't understand the question too

Geert

[Daniel Gavrila]

Ok, my mistake that I did not make clear from the begining...

In the User guide at the page "Call Templates From Templates"

is this small sample how to call a template that return the value.

$sSource = %StateEnumeratedName($Source)%.

My question now is how should look this template StateEnumeratedName
that is able to return a value.I tried something like :

$return="my return value" or
$parameter0="my return value"  

but without success...

Hope now is clearer.

Many thanks,
Daniel

[qwerty]

That's definitely clearer, but unfortunately I have no answer. Maybe someone else.

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[Makulik]

I think usually there should not be such thing as an explicit return value for a template. There's just the text expanded that is rendered in it, when the template is 'called'.
I'm not so sure if it's possible to pass parameters (other than the standard ones) to your custom template. Variables will have always local scope, so these won't help either.

HTH
Günther

[Ondrej Kolenaty]

The result of the template call is a resultin text after processing all macros. So I guess the answer for Your quwstion is custom template containing only:

my return value

That's all. no qoutes, no assignment to a variable.

More complicated way can be this:

$return="my return value"
$return

the second row makes "my return value" be te result of the custom template