Tips for Scripting

Optiva scripting follows the same conventions as Visual Basic .NET scripting. These suggestions are not requirements for Optiva scripting.

If you are going to use a variable in a print statement, ensure that the variable is assigned a value.


Dim oItemcode As Object = ObjProperty("ITEMCODE","FORMULA", 
"PIZZASAUCE\003")
MessageList("The code is: ",oItemcode)

Show the object type with variables. A suggested convention is to add a prefix letter to a variable to denote an object type. For example, use the letter “o” in front of a variable if the return is an object data type. Then as variables are used throughout the script, away from where they were originally declared, you can identify their data type.
```
Dim oItemcode As Object = ObjProperty("ITEMCODE","FORMULA", 
"PIZZASAUCE\003")
```

Comments can be either on a separate line of the script or at the end of a line.


'Declare an object variable.
Dim oitemCode As Object 'This declares the variable.