UAM: Shell Apps additional global variable "Name"

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Carsten Marquardt

To further automate shell app scripts, it would be helpful to have access to the shell app name in the scripts.

Please implement a global variable like $context.name that returns the shell app name.

 

A further suggestion is the introduction of freely configurable variables that can be defined for each shell app in the Shell Apps Editor.
These could then be accessed in the script using $Context.Var(###).

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Carl Long
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Toby Skerritt

Hi Carsten Marquardt , thanks for this request. I'll get a backlog card raised to discuss with the team. 

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Toby Skerritt

Hi Carsten Marquardt I discussed with the development team, there is some complexity so it requires some further discovery. Regarding your second request, we do already support the ability to create variables via parameterization. The approach is different but it should get you to the same outcome. Please review the parameterization section of this KB. Thanks.

https://nmehelp.getnerdio.com/hc/en-us/articles/32612189461261-UAM-Shell-apps-technical-reference-guide

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Carsten Marquardt

Hi Toby,
thanks for the information about discussions around the $Context.Name variable.

To the second request, I know thw parameterization well. My idea was to have an option to define a variable especially for the given Shell Apps package and edit it in an easy manner by the package editor at top level.

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