Templates: various questions not worth their own thread

[foosion]

Originally Posted by chaley

In Template Program Mode spaces are significant outside the template code. You can't put a space between the colon and the quote.

Taking out the space didn't help. I'm still getting error.

{#koboreadpct:'cmp($,100,#read,#kobolastread,#read)'}

#koboreadpct is Integers
#read and #kobolastread are both Date

Any of them might be blank.

??

EDIT: The program version worked. I do wonder why the above doesn't.

[ownedbycats]

program:
	status = readstatus();
	times = $$#timesread;
	readgoal = strcat('readinggoal:', format_date(today(), 'yyyy'));

	switch_if(
		status=='read', 'Read',
		status=='didnotfinish', 'Did Not Finish',
		status=='currentlyreading', 
			if times >#0 then 'Currently Rereading' 
			else 'Currently Reading' fi,
		status=='toberead', 'To Be Read',
		status=='unread', 
			if readgoal in $#admintags && $$#lastread then 'To Be Read' 
			elif readgoal in $#admintags then 'Backlog' 
			else 'Unread' fi,
		''
	)

Every book that matches unread and readgoal returns 'To Be Read', not just the ones with non-null dates. What did I do wrong?

[chaley]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

Every book that matches unread and readgoal returns 'To Be Read', not just the ones with non-null dates. What did I do wrong?

A raw field reference returns the string None if the field is not defined. Use either

if readgoal in $#admintags && $$#lastread != 'None' then 'To Be Read'

or

if readgoal in $#admintags && raw_field('#lastread', '') then 'To Be Read'

[ownedbycats]

Yes, that works. Thank you.