Using 'action' in a program call

[Shawn Smalley]

I'm trying to call a back-end program with an action on startup of an app.
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In my code Im using vvIn_char('action') to get the action value, but it seems to be returning nothing.
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[Johnny Major]

I would remove the quotes surrounding your action value

[Johnny Major]

Actually, Rob just pointed out that you are using 'Action' instead of 'action'

[Shawn Smalley]

oh, apologies, I was initially using 'action', but since that wasn't working I tried 'Action' I forgot to change it back in the picture. I just tried using action without quotes, but that just makes the program think it is a undefined variable. so neither 'action', 'Action', nor action seems to work

[Shawn Smalley]

also to clarify, removing the quotes on EV1 doesn't work either, that was another desperation attempt to see if something else would work lol

[Johnny Major]

I would remove the quotes surrounding EV1 in NAB behaviors and perform the following in your RPG program.

account = vvIn_char('action');

[Shawn Smalley]

At the moment, I have exactly that line of code, and the action being passed in is just EV1 (no quotes) but it still isn't returning any value

[sean.lanktree]

The value of action is placed into global variable "gAction". gAction is available in every NAB template program.