[solved] Skin Expressions: Localized or empty string in iif-expression (1 Viewer)

[bta489]

I'm trying to modify the Apollo-Skin. In the original skin some words are harcoded in plain english and I want to replace them with the localized version. But one inside an iif - Expression isn't cooperating. The line in question is something like this (I removed the working parts for clarity):

<label>#(iif(eq(#TVSeries.Episode.AvailableSubtitles,'1'),' | #(L(293))',''))</label>

This should, if subtitles are available, add the separator and the localized string "Subtitles" (string-ID 293). If no subtitles are available this string should be empty. But this only displays ' | #(L(293))'.

I had some success to display the correct string by enclosing the entire iif-Expression with the translation-Expression. But then if the iif-statement returns false instead of an empty string an error message is displayed in the label.

 

[bta489]

For future reference, I'll solve my own problem... Only 5 years later

It seems the correct notation inside those functions is without the #(), so just L(293) should do the trick for just a string and no additional characters.
For additional characters use the string.format function. So for the example above:

<label>#(iif(eq(#TVSeries.Episode.AvailableSubtitles,'1'),string.format('| {0}',L(293)),''))</label>