FDM - Multiload - "AftValidate" / "AftWeblinkVal" event problems

Question

I have built a custom made intersection validation report for multiload using excel as the source file. I basically modified the HFM adaptor and used the inbuilt loop in "if strEventName = "AftWeblinkVal"" (i.e. aftvalidate) to change the POV period. This worked fine and all I need to do is readjust the output to show all reports for all period and not just for the latest. This should be easy. However, problem is that when I have a text file, the "loop"doesn't work the same way as POV period stays the same. I think this is a bit srange, but hey what can you do? I guess it is linked to that with the excel you transfer period per period and with the text file FDM creates one load file and consolidates multiple periods simultaneously.
Is it somehow easily possible to modify that the strEventName = "AftWeblinkVal"-loop changes the period also for the text file?
If not, can you somehow easily deduct how many "periods" / "records" you have looped in the strEventName = "AftWeblinkVal"? i.e. I would like to track the progress of the loop.
If not, then I have to built some fancy custom made recorder to track the progress, but I wouldn't want to go done on the that road if not neccessary and I would prefer to use the text file.
I'm using FDM 11.1.1.1.0 currently...

Answer 1

Sorry for the confusion but when I was talking about putting the count in an FDM variable I was in fact referring to one of the FDM API global variables i.e. PvarTempNC1 which can be accessed via the API --> API.DataWindow.Reports.PvarTempNC1.
Store your count in this variable and increment as appropriate. The reason your count only ever shows as one is because the multiload action is executed every for every period in the multiload file for the multiload AftValidate event so even if you put it outside your IF satement capturing the event it will still be reset to 0 and in any case the declared count variable will only ever be local to each execution of the multiload action.
Your code needs to be something like:
if strEventName = 'choose an event that excutes before the validate event e.g. import / check in etc'
'intialise the global variable to zero
API.DataWindow.Reports.PvarTempNC1 = 0
end if
if strEventName = "AftWeblinkVal" then ' the strEventName for action after validate is AftWeblinkVal and not AfValidate, maybe because I'm using FDM 11.1.1.1.0 ?
'variable only ever gets incremented for this specific event and will therefore record the number of periods in the multiload file
API.DataWindow.Reports.PvarTempNC1 = API.DataWindow.Reports.PvarTempNC1 + 1
"Write count" 'I omitted the code for the sake of simplicity, but I basically store the count into a txt.file
end if