Set Variable - What conditions make it to separate out and why does it not work?

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Hi,

This is bit of strange question please pardon me.

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Documentation recommends that if you do, “set app variable jsonobj” then if you want to use you should call it as a plugin “app variable jsonobj”. Yes this works. I was doing something (I forgot what I did) and suddenly I had this “jsonobj” as a plugin by itself as you can see. I tried using it instead of “app variable jsonobj” that did not work. I clicked it, it allowed me to change its name. My question how did I mange to get jsonobj as a standalone plugin (It is as though I did a initialize app variable) and how come I cant use it? If this is Thunkable bug then I will refile it. Documentation does not talk about Renaming variables. Please clarify

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It’s not a bug. And it’s a little hard to explain since I’m on my phone but it sounds like you created a loop variable and also created an app variable with the same name, which is confusing.

That drop-down menu shows the loop variables only.

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Hi Tatiang,

I think you are right. When you create a loop variable Thunkable does get bit disoriented. I have seen in the past too, it is not as rigorous as C++ in syntax error reporting. One got to be real careful. The loop variable is j the set app variable is jsonobj but Thunkable back end mixed it I guess. No problem I will be careful. Thanks a lot for the insight.

regards
ananda