Re: [DataVision-users] conditional ruby code

[Jim M. <ji...@io...>]

On 10/1/06, Trenton D. Adams <tr...@tr...> wrote:
> The following code fails with a formula field
>
> if 5 == 5
>   puts "Hello world"
>
>
> DataVision v1.0.0
> Script Error: Error in script "if 5 == 5
>   puts "Hello world"
> #  @total =
> @total +$report.value("task_log.task_log_hours")":
> org.apache.bsf.BSFException: Exception
>
> Seems like pretty standard Ruby code to me.  Why won't it work?

[I don't think my reply made it to the mailing list---something about
my ISP's server being on the Spamcop RBL. Ouch.]

Do you have an "end" to match the "if"?

Also, I'm not sure what "puts" will do. If you want the string "Hello world"
to appear in the report, return it from the formula instead of calling "puts".

Jim

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