DSXchange

again! i am in need of assistance.

We want to call a sdk_transform from within a user defined routine AND want to use the value returned from the transform within the routine.

i.e.

from the above, we want to use the value returned in the rest of the routine.

Hi,
Its not a good practice for calling the Transform in a routine .
Instead you can call the routine with in the routine.

Declare the DataTypePicComp3 routine ( since the tranform is calling this routine in the transform) using the "Deffun" statement and call the routine

Var = DataTypepicComp3(Arg)

and use "Var" variable further in your routine.

HTH,

Cheers
Phani

Basically it's not possible to call a Transform from a Routine.

You can, of course, copy the Transform's derivation expression into your Routine, but then you incur the need to maintain it in two places.

In your example, I think it's a pretty safe bet that PIC COMP3 isn't going to change any time soon!

we actually had trouble calling the sdk transform - simply because we didnt know the syntax.

So, from reading here and there we eventually found that by saving the transform to examples/functions we could call it using: DSU.CopyOfTransformNowInExamplesFunctions

What is DSU? How could I avoid using DSU and point directly to the original transform?

Hi,
DSX is for routine that support supplied Transforms, while DSU is for user-written (that is, written and third-party providers, not by Ascential).

Ketfos