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<font face="Verdana">Thanks Rebecca. I appreciate the pointers!<br>
<br>
It turns out that this feature may not actually be exposed in the
API, so this may not actually go anywhere. I'm hoping that I'm
wrong about that, but it's not looking good.<br>
<br>
Cheers,<br>
<br>
...scott<br>
<br>
<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 3/10/14 5:49 PM, rebecca officer
wrote:<br>
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<div>Hi Scott</div>
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<div>I don't know anything about FM8 or FM9 - we skipped them -
but I've got FM10/11/12 all installed on my laptop, for testing
purposes. </div>
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<div>In FM10/11 you can't enter (). You get an error about invalid
syntax if you do. So that grouping feature is new in FM12.</div>
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<div>We've used build expressions a lot in FM10 and it would've
been easier with grouping!</div>
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<div>Something else that may not be obvious: you can combine AND
with NOT to give you ANDNOT functionality. That's very useful. </div>
<div> </div>
<div>Another thing is that FM 10/11 do group things, you just have
no control over the grouping. We've got expressions like:</div>
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<div> productA andnot internalOnly andnot future or
product-family-A andnot internalOnly andnot future </div>
<div> </div>
<div>FM groups this as:</div>
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<div> (productA andnot internalOnly andnot future) or
(product-family-A andnot internalOnly andnot future)</div>
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<div>not as:</div>
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<div> productA andnot internalOnly andnot (future or
product-family-A) andnot internalOnly andnot future </div>
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<div>Feel free to ask any other questions, or let me know if you
want me to test anything.</div>
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<div>Cheers</div>
<div>Rebecca</div>
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>>> Scott Prentice <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:sp10@leximation.com"><sp10@leximation.com></a> 11/03/14
07:27 >>><br>
<font face="Verdana">Hi...<br>
<br>
This is a stretch .. but if anyone knows it'll be someone on
this list. I'm looking for information on the differences
between the basic functionality of the conditional build
expressions in FM from FM8 to FM12.<br>
<br>
From the UI functionality perspective, it looks like FM8 and
FM9 are the same, then in FM10 a "label" was added so you
could give your build expression a name. FM10 and FM11 look
the same, and in FM12 they added a "()" button to allow for
grouping.<br>
<br>
The docs are woefully lacking on details.<br>
<br>
Was the basic functionality and syntax the same from FM8 to
FM11? Is the "()" (grouping) feature actually new in FM12 or
was that allowed previously, but you just had to know to type
it? I must admit that I've never really used this feature, but
would like to leverage it in a plugin, so need to know which
aspects are new and which have been there since FM8.<br>
<br>
Any tidbits of info are appreciated.<br>
<br>
Thanks!<br>
<br>
...scott<br>
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