Run user defined functions from address bar

[LittleBiG]

Sometimes it would be great to run user defined functions quickly from the address bar. Which is not possible now, because I cannot use include in AB. Would it be a way to achieve this? Maybe a central repository for those functions and they could be loaded silently on start?

[MBaas]

Yep, great idea - I think that would be useful

[eil]

Not a full solution, but if your UDF is launching a script from Scripts folder, you can use Alias to run same script, and aliases can work in AB.

[Daniel0312]

For a slightly different purpose I did the following:
I created an UDC containing only the iNCLUDE statement with my functions library (e.g. #1420)
When I want to use a user defined function I type #1420; MyFunction();
A little more typing but it does the job.

[admin]

Next beta...

[MBaas]

[admin]

And, do you like it?

[MBaas]

TBH, I 'ed that because I was hoping this change would also take care of the issue I was having: the desire to use UDFs in CFAs without loading (like "global functions"). But unfortunately that is out of scope according to the whatsnew so you've not given me a chance to like it

[admin]

It makes the most sense in the AB. In UDC you have multi-line scripts, so you can use include. In CFA, yes, that could make sense. Maybe later...