# onEditCellCommit trigger true and false

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/oneditcellcommit-trigger-true-and-false/37881>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [August 18, 2020, 8:20pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/oneditcellcommit-trigger-true-and-false/37881 "2020-08-18T20:20:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![mbai1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@mbai1](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/mbai1)\
**Post date:** [August 18, 2020, 8:20pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/oneditcellcommit-trigger-true-and-false/37881/1 "2020-08-18T20:20:43Z")

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I am using the onEditCellCommit in table component to trigger a message handler. I knew that I can use`if event.column =='delete' :` in my script , but if my column in delete is a boolean, how can I call the true and false (or the content of the boolean column) in my script?  
this is a column in my table component:  
 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/8/0/8084a36e38b44773551f1bd2c76ce28bbcd52419.png)

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**Author:** ![dkhayes117](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/dkhayes117/32/68344_2.png) [@dkhayes117](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/dkhayes117)\
**Post date:** [August 18, 2020, 8:49pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/oneditcellcommit-trigger-true-and-false/37881/2 "2020-08-18T20:49:50Z")

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it should be as simple as using.

```auto
myBool = event.value

```

I’m not using v8 yet, so I can’t verify this. The [manual entry](https://docs.inductiveautomation.com/display/DOC80/Perspective+-+Table) is very helpful though

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**Author:** ![pturmel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/pturmel/32/3295_2.png) [@pturmel](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/pturmel)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2020, 12:39am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/oneditcellcommit-trigger-true-and-false/37881/3 "2020-08-19T00:39:55Z")

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Pssst! `bool` is a built-in function name. If you assign to that name, it hides the function and can break stuff that depends on it.