insert_tag doesn't work inside filter_location ?

[SlowThinker]

The [and] tag inserted by [insert_tag] is apparently ignored here:

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# first and_tag is created 

[set_menu_item]
	id=10_recruit
	description="Recruit Unit"
	[filter_location]
		terrain=*
		[not]
			[filter]
				canrecruit=no
				x=$x1
				y=$y1
			[/filter]
		[/not]
		[insert_tag]
			name=and
			variable=and_tag
		[/insert_tag]
	[/filter_location]
	[command] 
	[/command] 
[/set_menu_item]

I had to apply [insert_tag] in the parent tag [set_menu_item]:

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# first and_tag is created 

[set_variables]
	name=filterloc_tag
	[value]
	terrain=*
		[not]
			[filter]
				canrecruit=no
				x=$|x1
				y=$|y1
			[/filter]
		[/not]
		[insert_tag]
			name=and
			variable=and_tag
		[/insert_tag]
	[/value]
[/set_variables]

[set_menu_item]
	id=10_recruit
	description="Recruit Unit"
	[insert_tag]
		name=filter_location
		variable=filterloc_tag
	[/insert_tag]
	[command]
	[/command] 
[/set_menu_item]

... and it worked

(I had to use 'spoiler' because 'section' doesn't work)

[bigkahuna]

The [and] tag inserted by [insert_tag] is apparently ignored here:

That's because [insert_tag] is an action tag and can only be placed in [event] and special cases such as [message] (on occassion). [filter_location] is NOT an action tag so it can't take [insert_tag]. I'm surprised it worked in [set_menu_item] - I'll have to keep that in mind.

[silene]

The [and] tag inserted by [insert_tag] is apparently ignored here:

How do you know it is ignored? What is the content of the "and_tag" container?

That's because [insert_tag] is an action tag.

No it isn't. It can be used in any place where variable substitution (e.g. $something) would work. In fact, it is just variable substitution for containers instead of values.

[zookeeper]

The [and] tag inserted by [insert_tag] is apparently ignored here:

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# first and_tag is created 

[set_menu_item]
	id=10_recruit
	description="Recruit Unit"
	[filter_location]
		terrain=*
		[not]
			[filter]
				canrecruit=no
				x=$x1
				y=$y1
			[/filter]
		[/not]
		[insert_tag]
			name=and
			variable=and_tag
		[/insert_tag]
	[/filter_location]
	[command] 
	[/command] 
[/set_menu_item]

I tried it and it works just fine for me.

[SlowThinker]

Thank you for the help and sorry for the dumb question

My mistake was I cleared add_tag:

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# first and_tag is created 
[set_menu_item]
	id=10_recruit
	description="Recruit Unit"
	[filter_location]
		# and_tag is accessed
	[/filter_location]
	[command] 
	[/command] 
[/set_menu_item]
{CLEAR_VARIABLE add_tag}

[bigkahuna]

It can be used in any place where variable substitution (e.g. $something) would work. In fact, it is just variable substitution for containers instead of values.

Well that's really cool. How do you know where variable substitution works? Is there a list or some criteria that it would have to fulfill?

[Sapient]

[insert_tag] may be used everywhere inside [event], with the exception of [set_variables][literal]

(and there may be a few other places where it works)

[Anonymissimus]

(and there may be a few other places where it works)

Does variable substitution work somewhere outside [event]s ?

[Sapient]

(and there may be a few other places where it works)

Does variable substitution work somewhere outside [event]s ?

It works inside subtags of [menu_item], and some [story] parts. In the future hopefully the entire contents of [scenario] will support tag insertion. Unfortunately the relevant code is spread out over a lot of places.