Update label text

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Hello,

I would like to know how to fill a label text by pressing a button.

Example. User presses button1 and label1 is updated with Text="button clicked"

I've tried setting the button onselect to: [code] label1.text="button clicked" [/code] but nothing happened.

Any ideas?

Thanks 🙂

ps. how do you post code in this forum? [code][/code] doesnt seem to work!

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NEPatton 360 on at

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Have you tried using a variable or context?

So for instance...

Set your Button's OnSelect to: Set(myVar,"Hey man!")
Set your Label's Text to: myVar

Now, everytime myVar is updated, the label text will change.

P.S. - to post code, use the button up above! (at least that's how I produced the following):
Set(myVar,"Hey man!")

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Community Power Pla... on at

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This was my first thought but i wondered if there was a simpler way to directly update the field?

Not sure how i

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NEPatton 360 on at

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I'm afraid not -- you can't set the text property of a label as part of an action.

If you stick with a decent naming convention, this isn't really all that hard to keep up with.

E.g. For all labels, set .text property = <label_name>_text

EDIT: pulling information from other posts to make the solution more relevant: buttons or other controls that change the label text would then need to call a function like: Set(<label_name>_text,"my new label text")

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SourabhpowerCSR 5 on at

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Set(<label_name>_text,"my new label text") is not working. Any feedback. Please help

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SLPS 48 on at

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This solution does not work with Custom List Forms, is there a modification that is needed to get it to work?
Thanks!

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mshTom 11 on at

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Dynamically assigning the Text property of a label doesn't work.
Instead, add a TextInput to a screen and set its DisplayMode to View.
The TextInput now looks like a label.
Using the Set() function, create a variable in App.OnStart (you may need to enable this feature in Settings).
Assign the variable to the Default property of the TextInput.
In your app, when you reassign the value of the variable, your new "label" will automatically refresh.

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