Facility Control

Hi,

I'm looking for a way to return the current button's ID as part of a task, which I would then want to apply a right() function to get the last 3 characters and then set the result as a variable to use in visual logic. 

Any ideas? It may be kind of a stretch based on another post I saw, but I've gotta make a few hundred buttons with some fairly complicated and I wanted to be able to use the button ID (which I have to maintain anyway in order to apply the correct name and style from another script) to feed into a parameter block's index field.

Thanks!

I, unfortunately, don't think there's a way of getting the ID of the button that was just pressed.   You could create a variable at the top of the task that has the ID.   I know this is duplicating information, but I can't think of another way right now.

I think using button parameters might be a better approach to take as you can easily get the selected button's OID and element number (or selected choice). Still, if you'd like to use the <button/> tag, this is how you can get the ID:

<abs contexttype="opengear" gridsize="20" id="_top">
<meta>
<api>function doTheThing(component)
{
ogscript.debug("ID: " + component.getClientProperty('id'));
}
</api>
</meta>
<button buttontype="push" height="100" id="b1" left="80" name="Button 1" top="100" width="240">
<task tasktype="ogscript">doTheThing(component);

</task>
</button>
<button buttontype="push" height="100" id="b2" left="340" name="Button 2" top="100" width="240">
<task tasktype="ogscript">doTheThing(component); </task>
</button>
</abs>