Strings in Vensim Comments

[Travis]

I'm trying to get some Comments in my model to use a single string. For instance, I would like to have:

str1 = "Best"
str2 = "Worst"

Comment var in the UI to be "$str1$ Policy" that would expand to "Best Policy" in the UI.

Possible? I know there are STRINGS in vensim, but I've never understood how to use them. I assume they are useful for this, but maybe they are meant for something else.

Bonus: Can I read in the strings "Best" and "Worst" from XLS file?

[Administrator]

What are you developing the GUI in?

[Travis]

Vensim. Just lots of views with a template. Comments as buttons to switch views.

[Administrator]

I don't know of any way of using Vensim strings on a sketch.

They are really there for things like worksheet names (if using GET XLS ...), messages and that's about it.

[Travis]

Bummer! Feature request, please.