Accessing array elements?

[murali_balreddy2]

In DS script, I can construct an array as

var myArray = ["AK", "AL", "AR"];

But how do I access the the array elements?

When I try the following it errors out

var myArrayElement = myArray[0];

Are there any methods available for array?

Thanks.

[former_member131154 · Accepted solution]

Hi Murali,

in Design Studio 1.1 it is definately not possible to work with arrays in the way you want to do it. So there is no way to read the nth element of an array. I also double checked with the development team.

Actually you can use an array like yours only for scenarios like to set a filter for a dimension or something like that.

Hopefully that will extend in the upcomming releases.

Regards

Dirk

[murali_balreddy2 · Accepted solution]

Thanks for the information. Yes. That is what I figured out too.

I hope SAP release more datatype functions.

By the way, do you or your development team friends have documentation of BI Action Language (that is used for scripting). Or are we just limited to the script editor context help alone.

Thanks.

Murali

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Murali,

May be this will help you out. BIAL is a  subset of the JavaScript/ECMAScript standard.

http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/files/ECMA-ST/Ecma-262.pdf

BR
Adlin

[former_member131154 · Accepted solution]

Hi Murali,

Admin send the link to the BIAL documentation, but not all the elements are available in DesignStudio.

For sure there will be a lots of enhancements for scripting in future releases, you will also find that within the roadmap.

Regards Dirk

[murali_balreddy2 · Accepted solution]

Thanks Adlin. It talks about ECMA in general and not BIAL in particular. Looking for BIAL specific information - that is implemented in DS.

I just have to wait for the new features to be added.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Murali,

Even I was searching for the same, & ended up with the above doc.

this helps a bit, but not.

Even i am bit struggling with the code part.

//Adlin