launch a Journal with an expression value

Submitted by Maddy02 on Thu, 07/17/2014 - 20:32
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Journaling / NXOpen API

Hi,

Can you please guide me is there any possibility of starting a journal through an expression.
For example
we have an Boolean expression like start_journal = true whose value changes based upon another expression. when the value of start_journal is true it should trigger the journal to work.

Thanks in advance,

Regards,
Maddy

NXJournaling - Fri, 07/18/2014 - 05:58

I don't know of any mechanism in NX that would enable you to launch a journal when the value of an expression changes. But, you can run your journal and take different actions based on the value of existing expressions. Something like:
if start_journal = true then
do this
else
exit journal
end if

If you have an author license and can compile your code to .dll, you might be able to write something that would hook into the expression system and notify you/run code when an expression changes. However, this is speculation as I've never seen or tried anything like this.