whenever i try to assign a variable the value from a message in an expressio
n
i get illegal dotted name whenever i try to assign an attributes value to a
defined variable.

the attribute from the message schema is an integer and the variable is of
int16.  i pomoted the property in the schema and ithougth taht was all that
was required.  is there something else i am missing ?

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Seems to have corrected itself .. not terribly sure what i did  - but now 
i
get the errpr cannot implicitly convert system.decimla to system.int16.
Curious because i have defined the variable that i am assigning the value to
as Int16 and the Message attribute is off type integer.

what could cause this ?

"Neil Hewitt" wrote:

> whenever i try to assign a variable the value from a message in an express
ion
> i get illegal dotted name whenever i try to assign an attributes value to 
a
> defined variable.
>
> the attribute from the message schema is an integer and the variable is of
> int16.  i pomoted the property in the schema and ithougth taht was all tha
t
> was required.  is there something else i am missing ?

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Neil - not sure why you are getting your decimal error, but try using the
System.Convert class whenever doing type conversions.  Pass it the variable
on the ToInt16 function and voila - it will do it.

Regards
Ben Cuttriss.

"Neil Hewitt" wrote:
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> Seems to have corrected itself .. not terribly sure what i did  - but no
w i
> get the errpr cannot implicitly convert system.decimla to system.int16.
> Curious because i have defined the variable that i am assigning the value 
to
> as Int16 and the Message attribute is off type integer.
>
> what could cause this ?
>
> "Neil Hewitt" wrote:
> 

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