7.0 can't parse group "someGroup" of (an id)

[Scott Rossi]

Those object references look manually created -- the long id includes a card reference and is generally more reliable (at least in pre 6.7/7 versions of LC).  You may be better off using the real long ids.

Regards,

Scott Rossi
Creative Director
Tactile Media UX/UI Design

> On Dec 15, 2014, at 1:54 PM, Dr. Hawkins <dochawk at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 9:58 AM, Bob Sneidar <bobsneidar at iotecdigital.com>
> wrote:
>> 
>> What is grNms? What does it contain? If they are only ID’s then your
>> statement would resolve to something like:
> They are long ids or similar (I have a function that chops long id to
> 
> group ID 1 of stack "someStack"
> 
> 
> so grMs is somthing like
> 
> group ID 1 of stack "someStack"
> group ID 2 of stack "anotherStack"
> group ID 2 of stack "anotherStack"
> 
> 
> 
>> put the name of  (  group "rawRow" of   (123456))
>> 
>> You can see the problem. Now if it contains rows of the long id’s of those
>> groups, then your statement might resolve to something like:
>> 
>> put the name of  (  group "rawRow" of   (group id 2571 of card id 1002 of
>> stack “myStack"))
>> 
>> Is group “rawRow” contained in group id 2571 of card id 1002 of stack
>> “myStack"? If not then that also is a problem.
> 
> Yes; it was definitely there.  I got it from the childControlIDs function.
> 
>> 
>> What I usually do to make troubleshooting simpler is I put every value I
>> am going to enter into a statement into a variable first. In your case you
>> can use a breakpoint before the statement and examine the contents of grNms
>> to see if it contains what you think it does.
> 
> 
> It wasn't a runtime error, but a compile error
> 
> 
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