{"id":1724,"date":"2014-11-11T22:58:14","date_gmt":"2014-11-11T22:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alt2.minisoft.com\/support\/?p=1724"},"modified":"2020-06-11T12:14:55","modified_gmt":"2020-06-11T19:14:55","slug":"positional-vs-direct-input-variables","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/c002.minisoft.com\/support\/positional-vs-direct-input-variables\/","title":{"rendered":"Positional Vs. Direct Input Variables"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Positional Data Block Variables<\/h3>\n<div>From the eFORMz Input Data Viewer, select a string of characters (left click + drag), right click and select Add Variable. This method is more commonly used with character strings:<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/var_1.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1725\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/var_1.png\" alt=\"var_1\" width=\"663\" height=\"431\" srcset=\"https:\/\/c002.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/var_1.png 663w, https:\/\/c002.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/var_1-300x195.png 300w, https:\/\/c002.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/var_1-150x97.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 663px) 100vw, 663px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<h3>Direct Input Data Block Variables<\/h3>\n<div>An eFORMz variable can also be created by right clicking on data input and selecting Add Variable. This method picks up a block of data verses instead of a specific number of characters, and is particularly useful for <a title=\"Place A Barcode From Input [Video Only]\" href=\"\/support\/index.php\/place-a-barcode-from-input-video-only\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">placing a barcode from input data<\/a>:<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/var_2.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1726\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/var_2.png\" alt=\"var_2\" width=\"661\" height=\"488\" srcset=\"https:\/\/c002.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/var_2.png 661w, https:\/\/c002.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/var_2-300x221.png 300w, https:\/\/c002.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/var_2-150x110.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 661px) 100vw, 661px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Positional Data Block Variables From the eFORMz Input Data Viewer, select a string of characters (left click + drag), right click and select Add Variable. This method is more commonly used with character strings: &nbsp; Direct Input Data Block Variables An eFORMz variable can also be created by right clicking on data input and selecting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c002.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1724"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c002.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c002.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c002.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/75"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c002.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1724"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/c002.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8019,"href":"https:\/\/c002.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1724\/revisions\/8019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c002.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c002.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c002.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}