It is possible that at present it is not possible to do something like the following? [image] Essentially I want to keep adding to a text variable… This step is triggered through an event of a custom widget. When I add a message action before or after the store command, the messages are firing as…

:crazy_face: :rofl: … ok… so this actually works :smiley: [image] Thank you @mellerbeck ! That ref helped find a better but still somewhat awkward solution.

I thought I could be smart about it… well… no… also does not work. [image]

So… this works… [image] :roll_eyes: Actually, I am missing a matching smiley for it.

Hi @mellerbeck , you might be onto something here… could it be that the problem is the initial null value of the text which is not playing well with a concatenation? Checking this out…

Yeah I think concat to null could have a problem, need to force it to a string (or start with an empty string)

Thats exactly what I came up with :sweat_smile: I was just a bit slower… [image] The issue is, that TULIP cant handle a null value correctly (as @mellerbeck guessed). empty strings need to be initialized. Alternatively you could set it to ‘’ (empty string) on step enter (if this does not corrup…

Overwrite existing variable by appending a string to it

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mellerbeck March 3, 2023, 4:12pm 4

It made me think of this, Ongoing Comment Log but I think you want something different

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Overwrite existing variable by appending a string to it

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