Challenge: how to set the text of a field

J. Landman Gay jacque at hyperactivesw.com
Fri Mar 29 15:42:05 EDT 2013


On 3/29/13 2:30 PM, David Bovill wrote:

> So how can I write a handler to retrun the text of a background group on a
> card other than the current card? The only way I know of is to do some ugly
> manual parsing of the long id of the target, and so extract the card id and
> construct a reference that way - very ugly and in other contexts error
> prone. What we need is something equivalent to:
>
> put the card of the target
> put the number of the card of the target
>
> Any other way of doing this simple task?

Does it have to be a background group? If you make it a shared card 
group then you can get "the owner of me", which will be the card.	

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