Hey folks, first of all I love the new variable function. Within the setup of spacings I want to reference my base value (“8”) and do calculations, e.g. (spacing-base)*2". This works fine and the value is calculated properly within the input to add a new variable. But I expected not that the calculation string changes to the absolute value. With this behaviour I loose the connection/ reference to my base value and the calculation is some how obsolete.
Does anybody feel the same?
Will there be an update?
My eCommerce prototype contains 3 prices that change based on the user’s choices: monthly price, total price and RRP. Each of these prices is set to a variable, which updates based on the interaction.
Currently to update the 3 prices each choice has to trigger 3 conditions (e.g. if user chooses option A then ‘Total price’=100, ‘Monthly price’=‘Total price’ ÷ 12 and ‘RRP’=‘Total price’ + 10.
It would save a lot of time if I could set these relations in the variables values themselves (e.g. ‘Monthly price’=Total price ÷ 12 and ‘RRP’=‘Total price’ + 10). This would mean that each choice would only need to update the ‘Total price’ and the ‘Monthly price’ and ‘RRP’ would update automatically.
I am looking forward to this as well. It would be super handy and save a lot of time when rescaling things if you could use the variables on things like corner radii.
+1 from me for defining one variable as the result of a calculation of one or more other variables.
I would also like the ability to apply calculations anywhere a variable can be assigned. Essentially, the flip side to assigning calculations to variable definitions is that instead of requiring multiple variables, one for each calculation, you could have a few base variables and then specify any calculation using them where you need to.
For example, if you have two layers, X & Y, which need to have opposite visibility (i.e. if one is shown/hidden, the other is hidden/shown) I could create Boolean “x-is-visible”, and then apply “x-is-visible” to X and “not x-is-visible” to Y. Otherwise you’d need two variables to accomplish the same thing.
+1000 we def need this asap. I am trying to set up a pretty large library that will be shared across many lines of business, they all have and want different things like spacing, padding, and corners plus we want to add controls for density which a multiplier would be perfect for e.g. #base-spacing*1.5
