How to pass a value from a Widget to a Catalog item variable

[MBarrott]

I have a custom widget which is pulling driving directions from a API and parsing it as a string to a variable. 

I can see that the directions are parsed correctly via console or system logs, however I now want to pass them to a text multi-line variable I have on the Catalog Item. I browsed the forums and saw some mentions of using $scope but nothing has seemed to work and I'm not familiar with AngularJS. 

What is the optimal and/or easiest way to pass this string from the widget to the catalog item variable?

[Ankur Bawiskar]

@MBarrott 

you can use this syntax to set value in string variable from widget client controller

$scope.page.g_form.setValue('variableName', 'Your Value');

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[MBarrott]

Hi @Ankur Bawiskar 

Is any further setup required to use that? 

[Ankur Bawiskar]

@MBarrott 

that's it.

what's the issue you are facing?

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[Ankur Bawiskar · Accepted solution]

@MBarrott 

something like this

api.controller = function($scope) {
    /* widget controller */
    var c = this;
    $scope.page.g_form.setValue('variableName', 1);

};

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[MBarrott]

@Ankur Bawiskar 

That might have been the issue. My client controller begins with the following: 

api.controller = function() {
    var c = this;