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Originally Posted by ownedbycats

Additionally, instead of two separate SFEs with _variant_argument as a conditional, can _variant_argument be used in a SFE (templated)?

EDIT: It does. I set to null for one variant, and current date for another.

That is actually one of the main reasons I did the chain variations. I have some chains the perform operations and then rate a book. So I wanted to have a submenu for these chains, with variations that look like this:

Do something and rate: ★
Do something and rate: ★★
Do something and rate: ★★★
Do something and rate: ★★★★
Do something and rate: ★★★★★

The template for the chain variations is like this:

program:
    text = 'Do something and rate: ';
    for rating in range(2,11,2):
        text = text & '★';
        add_chain_variant(text, rating, 'submenu name')
    rof

Now, you can use single field edit to set the rating based on the _variant_argument:

program:
    globals(_variant_argument)