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    Scott Lawrence Official comment

    Hi Everyone, 

    We recently released this feature.  When you use the type-in formula bar, you are now able to insert comments into the formulas.  Check out the Tips for using the formula bar article in our knowledge base.

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    Thank you for supporting this feature!

    Cheers,

    Scott.

     

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    Scott Lawrence

    Hi Richard,

    Thanks for contributing!  Can you provide some additional context?  Where were you asking for the option to allow code comments?

    Thanks,

    Scott.

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    Richard Burrow

    Within the Klip editor code builder view. 

    I was working on a complex table Klip recently that had a number of different switch statements and it would be good to insert a comment before each switch statement to remind me what each one was doing. 

     

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    Scott Lawrence

    Hi Richard,  

    Thanks for the additional context.  Sounds like you are wanting to put comments in long formulas to simplify your ability to read and interpret them in the future.  I will add this as a feature request and add your name to it for additional context.

    Thanks,

    Scott.

     

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    Matthias Moeser

    This feature sounds useful to me too.

    Being able to comment out lines of code or entire functions, would make it easier to play around with the different functions. Now I would type a section and copy paste it to another field in a klip to alter the code without loosing information.

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    Scott Lawrence

    Thanks for your additional use case, Matthias.  I will add this to the feature request and add your name as well.

    Cheers,

    Scott.

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    Matthias Moeser

    Thank you implementing the code commenting! 

    One thing: It appears that a commented out variable (!variable) linking to a calculation that throws an error, will still break the function.

     

    Cheers,

    Matthias

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    Scott Lawrence

    Hi Matthias,

    Great to hear you are using the functionality.

    I'd like to better understand your concern.  Can you share more context around what you are doing and the experience?  It would also really help to see an example of your formula.

    Thanks,

    Scott.

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    Mladen Ryhard

    It seems like the last inline comment cannot be after a final bracket. Referencing a column with the formula as in the first picture works. Referencing a column with the formula as in the second picture throws an error.

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