Bug in a Validation Target

[wildrage]

I seem to have come accross a bug which is preventing me from implementing a validation rule.

The tagcountstr["str"] target does not return the same number as tagcount[exp] when passing the equivalent string/expression. The same issue occurs if I use this.entity.overall.tagcountstr["string"] vs this.entity.overall.tagcount[tag]) from a unit-scope validation rule.

I have a very simple Global Script that does the following:

if (tagis[Comp.Special] > 0) then
  perform entity.assign[DupTracker.0]
endif

I have added a roster validation rule that does

debug "tagcount[DupTracker.0]: " & tagcount[DupTracker.0]
debug "tagcountstr[DupTracker.0]: " & tagcountstr["DupTracker.0"]

One would expect the return values to be identical. Unfortunately, this is the output I get from the debug window.

**********  Start Evaluation Cycle  **********

tagcount[DupTracker.0]: 0
tagcountstr[DupTracker.0]: 0

**********  Start Evaluation Cycle  **********

tagcount[DupTracker.0]: 1
tagcountstr[DupTracker.0]: 1

**********  Start Evaluation Cycle  **********

tagcount[DupTracker.0]: 2
tagcountstr[DupTracker.0]: 1

**********  Start Evaluation Cycle  **********

tagcount[DupTracker.0]: 3
tagcountstr[DupTracker.0]: 1

The Debug Roster Accrued Tags windows shows that the DupTracker.0 tag does have a count of 3. The validation I want to implement absolutely has to be done with tagcountstr[] because the tag that needs to be counted is dynamic.

Is there a workaround?

 

[Colen]

That does look like a bug. Can you send me the data files you're using so I can investigate the problem and hopefully fix it in AB3.3? Please email them to me at colen@wolflair.com with information on how to reproduce the problem.

As a workaround, is there a limited number of tags that you'll need to be checking? It'd be ugly, but you could do something like this:

if (somenumber = 0) then
  value = tagcount[DupTracker.0]
elseif (somenumber = 1) then
  value = tagcount[DupTracker.1]
elseif (somenumber = 2) then
  value = tagcount[DupTracker.2]
.. etc etc ..

Hope this helps!