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A user named bcr_garrett posted this question a while ago and it wasn't answered. What's the best way to structure this?

What if you have more than one condition, and no conditional operators in Method...

An issue I had recently
if condition1...do something1.
if condition1 and condition2...do something2.
if condition1 and condition3...do something3.
if condition1 and condition2 and condition3...do something4.

Hi Mike,

In this scenario, you probably need to use several conditional statements. This is one way to structure it:

Start Conditional Statement 1

Do Something 1

Start Conditional Statement 2

Do Something 2

End Conditional Statement 2

Start Conditional Statement 3

Do Something 3

Start Conditional Statement 2

Do Something 4

End Conditional Statement 2

End Conditional Statement 3

End Conditional Statement 1

Keep in mind that in this structure multiple Do Something's will occur if multiple conditions are met. What's your end goal? Do you need only one Do Something to occur even if multiple conditions are met?

Jason

Let's say you have a student in karate and you're progressing through the belts, and you need to pass each level before going onto the next. The default is "No belt" and the belt options progress from "Yellow" to "Orange" to "Blue"

For a button that does these actions while looping through a grid/table of all students, I would do the following:

• Loop through Student grid
• Set action result “resultbelt” = No belt
  • If pass yellow exam
  • action result “resultbelt” = Yellow
    • If pass orange exam
    • action result “resultbelt” = Orange
      • If pass blue exam
      • action result “resultbelt” = Blue
      • End if
  • End if
  • End if
• Populate “resultbelt” into field “BeltLevelAchieved” in the Student table
• End loop through Student grid 

Is this a good/correct/efficient way to structure this? My issue is that there's no "else" option, so I assume I have to pre-populate it.

Hi Mike,

This logic looks perfect to me. I don't believe there is a more efficient way to do this in the current version of Method. I can't confirm, but there might be 'else' capabilities in the next version of Method. Keep an eye out for that. 

Jason