how to use a Variable in a value name in uipath - variables

I'm new to uipath so forgive me if this is an easy question. I am using Get Text to retrieve some data from a table. I select Save For Later. How would/can I use a variable as part of the values name? Im not sure if it can actually be done, I'm just thinking of what I can do in php but I know uipath is a different beast. I've tried the following code in the "Give your value a name" field but it dosent work.
"random text" + variable
Lets say I have a variable called "money", I then create another variable but I want the value of the variable "money" to be part of the 2nd variables name...if that makes sense

You should first go to the (free) UiPath Academy, as this is such a basic question, actually.
But anyway to give you something here, let me solve your question.
Go to your Get Text activity
Rightclick into the Output value field
Select Create variable and set name to e.g. "test"
Now you can use that variable wherever you want (keep care of the scope for sure)

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ListObjects.Add.QueryTable Source Array String

I will provide some context before I ask my question.
I am attempting to query an SQL Server and create a table within Excel from the data. Because I am not familiar with how to accomplish this in VBA I recorded by using Data -> Get External Data -> From Other Sources -> Microsoft Query. In the dialog box that appears, I chose a .DSN file provided to me by someone else. I then used the Microsoft Query interface to structure the query and import the data onto a worksheet.
The code in the recorded macro looked something like this. I will use generic terms instead of the actual code.
With Sheet2.ListObjects.Add(SourceType:= 0, Source:=Array _
(Array("ODBC;DRIVER=SQL Server;SERVER=ServerName;UID=userid;Trusted_Connection=Yes;APP=Microsoft Windows Operating System;WSID=SomeString"), _
Array("A;DATABASE=DatabaseName")), Destination:=Range ("Sheet2!$A$1")).QueryTable
I know this is not formatted ideally, which is part of my question below.
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb211863(v=office.12).aspx
From the above article, I know that SourceType:= 0 is an xlSrcExternal, or an external data source. This makes sense to me.
My confusion begins to arise when I get to the Source component of the Add method. From the provided article, "When SourceType = xlSrcExternal, an array of String values specifying a connection to the source, containing the following elements:
•0 - URL to SharePoint site
•1 - ListName
•2 - ViewGUID
So to begin with, what exactly is meant by "an array of String values", as the code from the recorded macro does not appear to correspond to what I thought was an array. I know that normally an array is declared something like this Array("string1", "string2", etc.). Or is the array recorded simply an array of one value? In other words Array("string1"). Does anyone know the purpose of passing an "array of string values" as opposed to just passing a string?
Also does anyone know the nuances of why the recorded macro has this particular formatting/syntax? In other words, why does it appear to have this syntax Array(Array("string1"),_ (new line) Array("string2"))? Why not just Array ("string1")? Does it have something to do with the second line being too long?
I have several more questions related to this topic, but this seemed like a good place to start..
Thank you all for any help given.

Get Text Symbol Programmatically With ID

Is there any way of programmatically getting the value of a Text Symbol at runtime?
The scenario is that I have a simple report that calls a function module. I receive an exported parameter in variable LV_MSG of type CHAR1. This indicates a certain status message created in the program, for instance F (Fail), X (Match) or E (Error). I currently use a CASE statement to switch on LV_MSG and fill another variable with a short description of the message. These descriptions are maintained as text symbols that I retrieve at compile time with text-MS# where # is the same as the possible returns of LV_MSG, for instance text-MSX has the value "Exact Match Found".
Now it seems to me that the entire CASE statement is unnecessary as I could just assign to my description variable the value of the text symbol with ID 'MS' + LV_MSG (pseudocode, would use CONCATENATE). Now my issue is how I can find a text symbol based on the String representation of its ID at runtime. Is this even possible?
If it is, my code would look cleaner and I wouldn't have to update my actual code when new messages are added in the function module, as I would simply have to add a new text symbol. But would this approach be any faster or would it in fact degrade the report's performance?
Personally, I would probably define a domain and use the fixed values of the domain to represent the values. This way, you would even get around the string concatenation. You can use the function module DD_DOMVALUE_TEXT_GET to easily access the language-dependent text of a domain value.
To access the text elements of a program, use a function module like READ_TEXT_ELEMENTS.
Be aware that generic programming like this will definitely slow down your program. Whether it would make your code look cleaner is in the eye of the beholder - if the values change rarely, I don't see why a simple CASE statement should be inferior to some generic text access.
Hope I understand you correctly but here goes. This is possible with a little trickery, all the text symbols in a report are defined as variables in the program (with the name text-abc where abc is the text ID). So you can use the following:
data: lt_all_text type standard table of textpool with default key,
lsr_text type ref to textpool.
"Load texts - you will only want to do this once
read textpool sy-repid into lt_all_text language sy-langu.
sort lt_all_Text by entry.
"Find a text, the field KEY is the text ID without TEXT-
read table lt_all_text with key entry = i_wanted_text
reference into lsr_text binary search.
If you want the address you can add:
field-symbols: <l_text> type any.
data l_name type string.
data lr_address type ref to data.
concatenate 'TEXT-' lsr_text->key into l_name.
assign (l_name) to <l_text>.
if sy-subrc = 0.
get reference of <l_text> into lr_address.
endif.
As vwegert pointed out this is probably not the best solution, for error handling rather use message classes or exception objects. This is useful in other cases though so now you know how.

Putting the cursor in a specific place in a live template

I just wanted to know how you put a cursor in a specific place in a live template for IntelliJ
For example:
# $var$ is an insance of the $objectType$ class
assert isinstance($var$, $objectType$)$END$
What happens here is that your cursor gets dragged to $var$ in the comment string first and then to your other values inside assert. What I wanted to know is how you chose where the cursor goes first.
I've read the documentation, but this is not mentioned, although a lot of other things are.
You can arrange the order that your variables are visited in. You find the information under bullet number five in this IntelliJ help document: http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/webhelp/creating-and-editing-template-variables.html
To arrange variables in the order you want IntelliJ IDEA to switch between associated input fields, use the Move Up and Move Down buttons.
Edit
You have to update the macro definition to similar to this:
# $varComment$ is an insance of the $objectTypeComment$ class
assert isinstance($var$, $objectType$)$END$
And then you define the order and expression to something like this (I didn't have any good expression for the var and orderType for you):
Since you fill in the Skip if defined for the two comment variable they will just take the values from the var and orderType and fill it in. This will do exactly what you are looking for :-)

Filling parameter with value from Zeconfig_var table

I have the following selection parameter:
PARAMETERS: p_ver(2) AS LISTBOX VISIBLE LENGTH 5.
I would like to populate it with the results from a ZECONFIG_VAR table.
At what point would I do this. Selection Screen Output, Start of Selection, or other. I am trying to allow users the ability to decide what version of the web service they would like to call. The config table will have different url's for the different versions.
I have looked at this Answer and the tutorial provided does not make sense to me.
I would do it at the event INITIALIZATION
However, it may be even easier to just create a search-help, and assign it to p_ver using the following:
parameters: p_ver(2) visible lenghth 5 MATCHCODE OBJECT zshelpname.
Esti is right that you probably want to fill an internal table from the DB table during INITIALIZATION.
But to the populate the listbox parameter, you need to put the call to VRM_SET_VALUES in AT SELECTION-SCREEN OUTPUT.

Execute coldfusion code stored in a string dynamically?

I have an email body stored as a string in a database, something like this:
This is an email body containing lots of different variables. Dear #name#, <br/> Please contact #representativeName# for further details.
I pull this field from the database using a stored proc, and then I want to evaluate it on the coldfusion side, so that instead of "#name#", it will insert the value of the name variable.
I've tried using evaluate, but that only seems to work if there's just a variable name. It throws an error because of the other text.
(I can't just use placeholders and a find/replace like this - Resolving variables inside a Coldfusion string, because the whole point of storing this in a database is that the variables used to build the string are dynamic. For example, in one case the name field can be called "name" and in another it could be "firstName", etc.)
I would loop over each #variableName# reference and replace it with the evaluated version.
A regex will be able to find them all and then a loop to go over them all and just evaluate them one by one.
You need to write it to a file and CFINCLUDE it. This will incur a compilation overhead, but that's unavoidable.
Can you not save the code to the file system and just store a reference to where it is in the DB? That way it'll only get recompiled when it changes, rather than every time you come to use it?
<!--- pseudo code --->
<cfquery name="q">
SELECT fileContent // [etc]
</cfquery>
<cfset fileWrite(expandPath("/path/to/file/to/write/code.cfm"), q.fileContent)>
<cfinclude template="/path/to/file/to/write/code.cfm">
<cfset fileDelete(expandPath("/path/to/file/to/write/code.cfm"))>
That's the basic idea: get the code, write the code, include the code, delete the code. Although you'll want to make sure the file that gets created doesn't collide with any other file (use a UUID as the file name, or something, as per someone else's suggestion).
You're also gonna want to load test this. I doubt it'll perform very well. Others have suggested using the virtual file system, but I am not so sure there'll be much of a gain there: it's the compilation process that takes the time, not the actual file ops. But it's worth investigating.
Are you using ColdFusion 9 or Railo? If yes, writing to and including in-memory files may be quick and simple solution. Just generate file name with something like CreateUUID() to avoid collisions.
So basically, after researching and reading the answers, it seems that these are my options:
Have separate fields in the table for each variable and evaluate them individually. e.g. nameVariable, reprNameVariable, and then I can build the body with code like this:
This is an email body containing lots of different variables. Dear #evaluate(nameVariable)#, <br/> Please contact #evaluate(reprNameVariable)# for further details.
Have an "emailBody" field with all the text and applicable field names, and write it to a temporary file and cfinclude it. (As suggested by Adam Cameron, and I think that's what Sergii's getting at)
Have an "emailBody" field and write code to loop over it, find all coldfusion variables, and replace them with their "evaluate"d version. (As suggested by Dale Fraser)
Have small template files, one for each report type, with the email body, and have a field "emailBodyTemplate" that indicates which template to include. (As suggested by Adam Cameron)
Now I just have to decide which to use :) When I do, I'll accept the answer of the person who suggested that method (unless it's one that wasn't suggested, in which case I'll probably accept this, or if someone comes up with another method that makes more sense)
It's been a while since you posted this - but it's EXACTLY what I do. I found your question while looking for something else.
I've simply created my own simple syntax for variables when I write my emails into the database:
Hello ~FirstName~ ~LastName~,
Then, in my sending cfm file, I pull the email text from the database, and save it to a variable:
<cfset EmailBody = mydatabasequery.HTMLBody>
Then I quickly strip my own syntax with my variables (from another query called RecipientList):
<cfset EmailBody = ReplaceNoCase(EmailBody, "~FirstName~", "#RecipientList.First#", "ALL")>
<cfset EmailBody = ReplaceNoCase(EmailBody, "~LastName~", "#RecipientList.Last#", "ALL")>
Then I simply send my email:
<cfmail ....>#EmailBody#</cfmail>
I hope you manage to see this. If you control the authoring of the email messages, which I suspect you do, this should work well.
Russell