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Gets user input with a text box and button.

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Operations

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getText

Retrieves text typed in by the user, once the button is clicked.

Inputs

Name	Description
label	A message to show before the text box
defaultText	Default content for the text box
buttonText	A caption for the button

Outputs

Name

string

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getTwoTextValues

Retrieves two pieces of text typed in by the user, once the button is clicked.

Inputs

Name	Description
label1	A message to show before the first text box
label2	A message to show before the second text box
defaultText1	Default content for the first text box
defaultText2	Default content for the second text box
buttonText	A caption for the button

Outputs

Name

TwoValues - custom object

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getThreeTextValues

Retrieves three pieces of text typed in by the user, once the button is clicked.

Inputs

Name	Description
label1	A message to show before the first text box
label2	A message to show before the second text box
label3	A message to show before the third text box
defaultText1	Default content for the first text box
defaultText2	Default content for the second text box
defaultText3	Default content for the third text box
buttonText	A caption for the button

Outputs

Name

ThreeValues - custom object

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getChoiceFromDropdown

Retrieves text selected from a dropdown by the user.

Inputs

Name	Description
choices	A list of choices
label	A message to show before the dropdown
defaultText	Default content for the selection box

Outputs

Name

string

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getTwoChoicesFromDropdowns

Retrieves two pieces of text selected by the user, once the button is clicked.

Inputs

Name	Description
choices1	The first list of choices
choices2	The second list of choices
label1	A message to show before the first dropdown
label2	A message to show before the second dropdown
defaultText1	Default content for the first dropdown
defaultText2	Default content for the second dropdown
buttonText	A caption for the button

Outputs

Name

TwoValues - custom object

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getThreeChoicesFromDropdowns

Retrieves three pieces of text selected by the user, once the button is clicked.

Inputs

Name	Description
choices1	The first list of choices
choices2	The second list of choices
choices3	The third list of choices
label1	A message to show before the first dropdown
label2	A message to show before the second dropdown
label3	A message to show before the third dropdown
defaultText1	Default content for the first dropdown
defaultText2	Default content for the second dropdown
defaultText2	Default content for the third dropdown
buttonText	A caption for the button

Outputs

Name

ThreeValues - custom object

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getTextAndChoice

Retrieves two pieces of text entered by the user, once the button is clicked. The first piece of text is typed in and the second piece of text is selected from a dropdown.

Inputs

Name	Description
choices	The list of choices for the dropdown
label1	A message to show before the text box
label2	A message to show before the dropdown
defaultText1	Default content for the text box
defaultText2	Default content for the dropdown
buttonText	A caption for the button

Outputs

Name

TwoValues - custom object

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getQueryParameter

Retrieves a value from the query string in the URL (e.g. ##SHELL_URL##/?foo=test). This method will only work at runtime, at preview time it will return an empty string.

Inputs

Name	Description
name	The name of the value in the query string e.g. ?foo=test, name should be foo and the value is test.

Outputs

Name

string

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Objects

Details about type definitions can be found on the Block Metadata Type System page. Edit

TwoValues

Name	Type
value1	string
value2	string

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ThreeValues

Name	Type
value1	string
value2	string
value3	string