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Function reference value of #shared is not the same as the actual function reference
ImkeF, that is an interesting observation about what #shared returns. In doing further research, I found that #sections can also be used and it does return the original function value:
#sections[Section1][SimpleFunction] = SimpleFunctionThis brings up another question, why would Microsoft make the return values for #shared and #sections different!? Regardless, there are now two viable solutions for retrieving the textual name for a reference value and a possible explaination why #shared and #sections return differnet values. Thanks for sharing your observation.
Community ChampionHi houghtonap ,
don't know if this is mentioned in the docs, but #shared handles the metadata differently, basically returning the metadata first.
So this will return true:
#shared[SimpleFunction] = Value.Metadata(SimpleFunction)ImkeF, that is an interesting observation about what #shared returns. In doing further research, I found that #sections can also be used and it does return the original function value:
#sections[Section1][SimpleFunction] = SimpleFunctionThis brings up another question, why would Microsoft make the return values for #shared and #sections different!? Regardless, there are now two viable solutions for retrieving the textual name for a reference value and a possible explaination why #shared and #sections return differnet values. Thanks for sharing your observation.