Stamp to prepend an attribute of set type to $Text

Agents, Actions and Automation
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Each of my “notes” has an attribute, Sectors, which is a set containing 0 or more stock sectors pertaining to the note. I would like to define a stamp that redefines a note’s $Text by prepending the set, Sectors, to $Text. I’ve been experimenting with a Stamp action such as:
$Text=$NoteDate.format(l) + “\n” + $Sectors.format(??) “\n” + $Text
For ??, I’ve tried ", " but the attribute value doesn’t add to the revised Text. I’ve not even sure using .format is the right approach. If I remove the $Sectors… part, then the note is correctly changed to, say,

2024-01-10
A test note.

where “A test note.” was the original $Text value for the note.

So, how do I convert a set/list to a string? I will have two such set attributes to prepend along with the NoteDate.

Background: I have some agents that gather notes pertaining to stock data. Each agent includes the Rule:
$Text=collect(descendants,$Text).format(“\n----------\n”)
and the resulting Text that the agent displays will be copy & pasted to a Filemaker database, so I want the NoteDate and the set attributes to be part of each note and thus included in the rule’s collection.

Thanks for any insight you may provide!

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.format() for lists and sets takes a string to be used to separate elements. So:

$Text=$Sectors.format(",") + "\n\n"+$Text;

should do what you want.

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Thanks for the suggestion (which I originally tried, but it failed). But I typed in your sample code and that did work.

Having been bitten by the curly quotes bug several times yesterday, I can only guess that I once again used them for “,” in my first attempt. I have got to pay attention to those quote characters!

At any rate, I wrote the action code that includes all the pre-pended info I need. It works like a charm now. Thanks again!

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BTW, here is a tip…if you are drafting your action code in a text note you can toggle the $SmartQuotes attribute on and off. Turning it to false will tell Tinderbox NOT to convert your quotes to curly quotes.