Polaris - TEXTLIST alternative?

Question

Hi Community.

TEXTLIST does not work in Polaris.  Planual rule is to avoid using it, however, there are times when the functionality is needed.

Has anyone got an alternative or workaround to achieve similar functionality

TristanS · Accepted Answer

@TimWard70 you can push the text from the list in to a time dimensioned module then retrieve the result back from the time dimensioned module. See example below, with input to output then underlying calcs

Input:

Output:

Underlying calculations:

TimWard70 · Accepted Answer

Thank you - can see how this would work.

TristanS · Accepted Answer

@TimWard70 just learnt that Previous function can actually work outside of the Time dimension on Polaris now. So TextList alternative on Polaris could be further simplified as per below