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Message: <blockquote data-quote="PaleMage" data-source="post: 6197410" data-attributes="member: 34768">Scripting Primitives{loop: X}: in my personal experience, loop accept variables if given in the appropriate format.My Great Knowledge Library generator gets form user input a variable $Quantity, and passes it to a {loop: $Quantity} without any problem... The current real problem is that {loop: X} has 3 BIG limitations, for scripting purpouses:a. X cannot be greater than a signed-integer (-127/+127), and SHOULD be insteal a long-integer (there is no use of a negative loop);b. {loop: X} has no way to control an exit condition while looping, so we need at least an {/exitloop} statement;c. Best of all would be if we could get an additional {loopfor: condition} the same you get for an {if: condition}: this way you can exit loop whenever you meet that condition.Additional features needed (Portal)Ability to set an Hidden Flag for Tables/Generators. Subroutines created as generators called without the proper $variables set could end up in strange behaviors... better if we can hide them form direct use by portal, having them being used only by Tables and other Generators.Additional Field for TablesFor scripting purpouses, I've been force to add {$variables: x} to the Content Field of Tables: they are executed but not shown (correct), but this way tables are not so clean as a casual user would expect. I suggest to add an additional field (i.e. Operations) where to put {scripts, variable, and the like} not directly connected to the desired content output.For example:(CURRENT) Result: 1-3, Contents: {$key: MyKeyValue}MyContent, Output: MyContentshoud become(DESIRED) Result: 1-3, Contents: MyContents, Operations:{$key: MyKeyValue}, Output: MyContentAdding a field to all existing Tables is not a problem, because we have only to add a Field, and the existing would not be touched in any way. Of course, the operation field has to be executed any time you get that record result, as currently happens if you put scripts or Table/Generators calls in the Contents field... the purpouse is to execute scripts that does not generates outputs, but only calculations or $variables management.Let me know: I will do a very large use of these features, and any users with a little programming skills would agree with me.</blockquote>

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