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Hi:

Just another delivery from the Suggestion Factory.

I have built a generic Function defined as ...

string gkutility.gkReplaceText(string fromText, string subsText, string replText)

I normally invoke this Function like ...

thisText = thisapp.gkutility.gkReplaceText(thisText, "$$$LastName$$$", input.custLastName);

While I can invoke this Function like so ...

someVariable = "$$$LastName$$$";
...
...
thisText = thisapp.gkutility.gkReplaceText(thisText, someVariable, input.custLastName);

... I can not do something like ...

someVariable = "$$$LastName$$$";
anotherVariable = "input.custLastName";
...
...
thisText = thisapp.gkutility.gkReplaceText(thisText, someVariable, anotherVariable);

... as the third parameter passed to the Function will be input.custLastName ... not the content of input.custLastName.

Would be nice if there was a built-in ZOHO Creator function like eval() so ...

xyz = "input.custLastName";
myText = eval(xyz);

... would result in myText containing the contents of input.custLastName.

Another/Alternate suggestion would be to enhance the Map variable functions to load specified record <collections> e.g.

map1.putCollection("input");
map1.putCollection("old");
map1.putCollection("current");

... which would result in Map1 containing fieldName/fieldValue pairs of elements.

Gaev