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A solution to last week's challenge can be found here!
With Valentine's Day just around the corner, you're probably thinking about how to share how you feel with that special someone. Why not try to express your love with some poetry?
In this challenge, we'll take some inspiration from a poetry legend: William Shakespeare. Create an app to create your perfect love poem with a few custom tweaks...Mad Libs style! Feel free to use Shakespeare's Sonnet 18 (provided in the Start File) or another of your favorite poems as your base. Then, add Interface Tools (Text Boxes will come in handy for this!) to allow a user to infuse this poem with their own expressions of affection.
Source: GIPHY
Shall I compare thee to a winter's day?
Thou art more round and more fluffy.
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Relatively simple workflow - the most tedious part was the formulas to do all the replacing of words in each section. Could certainly have gone a Find & Replace route, but I liked this method as a way to ensure only those words I wanted to replace were actually replaced, in case a word showed up more than once but I wanted to leave it in a certain line. Another key to this one was that I didn't bother connecting all my app text boxes to the Formula tool where the words were replaced - instead, I used '%Question.1_Season%' to refer to the value from the app parameter named 1_Season, etc. Super handy trick using workflow constants/app parameters to keep from spaghetti noodle lines all over your workflow from your app inputs to their corresponding tools!
The text boxes the user will fill in to generate their Mad Lib:
And the truly stunning final result:
The text boxes the user will fill in to generate their Mad Lib:
And the truly stunning final result:
Cheers!
NJ
