Using If statement to return a given value

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Hello, everyone!

Am working on this if the statement that when a value exists it returns a particular message. However, it is always returning the first if statement and not checking the other ones.

if (exists(“5”) of unique values of string value of selects “HealthState from DCIM_Battery” of wmi “root\dcim\sysman”) then (“OK”) else if (exists(“10”) of unique values of string value of selects “HealthState from DCIM_Battery” of wmi “root\dcim\sysman”) then “Degraded/Warning” else if (exists(“20”) of unique values of string value of selects “HealthState from DCIM_Battery” of wmi “root\dcim\sysman”) then (“Major Failure”)else if (exists(“25”) of unique values of string value of selects “HealthState from DCIM_Battery” of wmi “root\dcim\sysman”) then (“Critical Failure”)else if (exists(“30”) of unique values of string value of selects “HealthState from DCIM_Battery” of wmi “root\dcim\sysman”) then (“Non-recoverable error”) else “N/A”

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One approach is to create a string that contains the possible values and the text that those values represent then parse the text. Something like

Q: preceding text of first ":" of following text of first ((concatenation "" of unique values of string value of selects "HealthState from DCIM_Battery" of wmi "root\dcim\sysman") & ";") of ("5;OK:10;Degraded/Warning:20;Major Failure:30;Non-recoverable error")
A: OK
T: 89.793 ms
I: singular substring
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Thanks, SLB,

this is perfect. It is exactly what I was looking for.

What about if it is a desktop computer. Is there something that could be added like “N/A” or something similar. Just so I know it is a desktop.

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If the DCIM_Battery class does not exists on a desktop (I don’t have access to any with the required WMI namespace to check), the expression may fail and you could trap that using the “|” operator and default to a “No Battery” string value.

Q: preceding text of first ":" of following text of first ((concatenation "" of unique values of string value of selects "HealthState from DCIM_Battery" of wmi "root\dcim\sysman") & ";") of ("5;OK:10;Degraded/Warning:20;Major Failure:30;Non-recoverable error") | "No Battery"
A: No Battery
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