Request: Separate "Filter Variable" into "Transform" and "Calculate"

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Continuing the discussion from “Highlight Screen Area" using Variables:

IMO, the KM Action labeled "Filter Variable" is grossly miseading.
In many cases, it is NOT filtering ( in the normal sense of the word) at all.
It is either transforming, or calculating something.

@peternlewis:

IMO, it would be much more intuitive to your users, if you would break out the current "Filter Variable/Clipboard" options to:

  • Transform Variable/Clipboard to
  • Calculate from Variable/Clipboard.

In both cases, you would provide for an INPUT Variable, and an OUTPUT Variable.

Please consider this a feature request.

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Noted.

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How about:

Modify Variable by:

This might need to be followed by a verb in the dropdown, e.g.:

  • Using Mac Line Endings
  • Trimming Whitespace
  • Wrapping text
  • Transforming to lowercase
  • Encoding with Percent for URL
  • etc.