Switchable macro sets with variables - Addon - Jamba-Macro

[Oracle]

Firstly I'm new to dual-boxing and consequently Jamba.
I like the look of it and have been looking at the macro ctrl sets in particular but i'm really struggling to see a point in them. For the most part it seems that it just emulates WoW's built in macro function and is more long winded. That is, I could write a simple macro via wow in a few seconds but it would take 2-3 times as long do write the same macro via Jamba
I've no doubt that from its popularity that it is a very good and worth while addon so i certainly think i'm just missing something.
So i'm wondering if someone could post some creative uses of Jamba's macro's that clearly shows how and why it is so much better and more useful that using the std wow macro function.

Secondly, I've been playing around with this and have made some macro's for my priest and they all work fine except Power Word: Shield. In my attempt to figure out why i also found that Power Word: Fortitude has the same issue. The issue being that nothing happens when i press the bound key.
Am wondering if this is an issue with ':' being used? And if so is there a way around this?

[Jafula]

Firstly I'm new to dual-boxing and consequently Jamba.
I like the look of it and have been looking at the macro ctrl sets in particular but i'm really struggling to see a point in them. For the most part it seems that it just emulates WoW's built in macro function and is more long winded. That is, I could write a simple macro via wow in a few seconds but it would take 2-3 times as long do write the same macro via Jamba
I've no doubt that from its popularity that it is a very good and worth while addon so i certainly think i'm just missing something.
So i'm wondering if someone could post some creative uses of Jamba's macro's that clearly shows how and why it is so much better and more useful that using the std wow macro function.

Secondly, I've been playing around with this and have made some macro's for my priest and they all work fine except Power Word: Shield. In my attempt to figure out why i also found that Power Word: Fortitude has the same issue. The issue being that nothing happens when i press the bound key.
Am wondering if this is an issue with ':' being used? And if so is there a way around this?

Here is one example:

Imagine you are 5 boxing.

You have a healer (priest), a tank, and 3 dps. You set up macros to heal your tank (Bob), like /cast [@Bob] Greater Heal, /cast [@Bob] Flash Heal, etc for all your heals (quite a few).

Now you have a friend with their own tank (Tom). You want to play with your friend, so your Tank (Bob) drops group and you invite Tom to your group.

How is your priest going to heal Tom?

1. You do not use Jamba Macro - You are going to have to go and change all the macros to point to Tom.

2. You use Jamba Macro - You change the tank variable value from Bob to Tom, push settings and click the build macros button. Done. Of course, your macros were built like /cast [@#tank#] Greater Heal and you had a tank variable with an initial value of Bob.

As to your second question: if the keys do not work, you probably have not built the macros. There is no problem with ":" in the macro.

[Dorffo]

Here is one example:

Imagine you are 5 boxing.

You have a healer (priest), a tank, and 3 dps. You set up macros to heal your tank (Bob), like /cast [@Bob] Greater Heal, /cast [@Bob] Flash Heal, etc for all your heals (quite a few).

Now you have a friend with their own tank (Tom). You want to play with your friend, so your Tank (Bob) drops group and you invite Tom to your group.

How is your priest going to heal Tom?

1. You do not use Jamba Macro - You are going to have to go and change all the macros to point to Tom.

2. You use Jamba Macro - You change the tank variable value from Bob to Tom, push settings and click the build macros button. Done. Of course, your macros were built like /cast [@#tank#] Greater Heal and you had a tank variable with an initial value of Bob.

As to your second question: if the keys do not work, you probably have not built the macros. There is no problem with ":" in the macro.

Thank you for this Jafula - exactly a scenario I run into regularly and one that I hadn't thought of attacking via Jamba!

[Oracle]

Here is one example:

Imagine you are 5 boxing.

You have a healer (priest), a tank, and 3 dps. You set up macros to heal your tank (Bob), like /cast [@Bob] Greater Heal, /cast [@Bob] Flash Heal, etc for all your heals (quite a few).

Now you have a friend with their own tank (Tom). You want to play with your friend, so your Tank (Bob) drops group and you invite Tom to your group.

How is your priest going to heal Tom?

1. You do not use Jamba Macro - You are going to have to go and change all the macros to point to Tom.

2. You use Jamba Macro - You change the tank variable value from Bob to Tom, push settings and click the build macros button. Done. Of course, your macros were built like /cast [@#tank#] Greater Heal and you had a tank variable with an initial value of Bob.

This does indeed make sense as a nice example of Jamba usage. Thankyou.

As to your second question: if the keys do not work, you probably have not built the macros. There is no problem with ":" in the macro.

Initially i went through and made all my macro's before building including PW:Shield so it would have been built with the rest and was included in the chat pane with the rest so dont think this is the problem. I was playing around with it for a while and did redo this macro several times and ran tests by goign back to basics such as testing with various keybinds, variables etc that i knew were working fine as they were with the other macros. I havent had much of a chance to look at it again for the past couple of days but will do tomorrow.
You say that the issue isn't with ":" being used so right now i'm at a loss as i cant think what else it could be but tbh i suspect with a clear and untired head, I'll see a silly mistake staring me in the face.