Programmatically adding a conversion

[Indy500]

How do I programmatically add/delete/list/etc a conversion? I didn't see anything in the manual on it. Thanks!

[AzeoTech]

There isn't. Its assumed that if you are going to want to programmatically manipulate the application at this level that you will use other techniques to do what Conversions do. Note that you can use variables in conversions.

[Indy500]

That makes sense. However, I need just a little more hint. Will this work OK?

myChannel.strConversion = "(value * 100) - 3"

Thanks!

[AzeoTech]

No. The strConversion variable of a channel is the name of the conversion, not the contents. As I said, you can't programmatically change the contents of the conversion. You can, however, change which conversion is assigned to a particular channel:

myChannel.strConversion = "MyConversion"

where MyConversion is an already existing conversion. You can also use variables in the conversion itself, so MyConversion could have this expression:

(value * 100) - 3

or it could use variables instead:

(value * slope) - intercept

where slope and intercept are global variables that you can easily change in script.