How to Reference Self.Name

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Posted on by MrAutomate

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Building a PA Canvas screen.

I saw a search come back stating that Self.Name was valid, but I don't see it in my environment. Is this Self.Name a real function?

I can do a workaround calling the tooltip something meaningful related to the text input, and I'm not looking to return the text VALUE, just the name of the control for a variable.

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Michael E. Gernaey 53,452 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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Hi

Sorry, not sure what you mean by you don't see Self.Name

Self.Name is an expression that can be used within ANY of the Properties of a Control.

It references itself, not other controls

ToolTip

Self.Name

Would make your tooltip the name of the control.

But you said you want it as a Variable, that part doesn't make sense.
You want to set it where?

Just to be clear though, Set is a behavioral function, so you can only put it into things like
OnSelect
Reset

So it would NOT set your variable except in those.
But if you want it in the tooltip, then you just need to do what I said up there.

Self.Fill.Color is another example of using Self

Again, it can only be used to reference properties of the control, whos property HAS this expression/Function in it.

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Ravindra Jadhav 342 Moderator on at

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Not understand your question please share some more info

You can use self.text property

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