Application Studio - read unbound text

Trying to do a very basic kinetic dashboard and already rubbing my head a bit.

I am trying to read the Text property of two Text Box-es to do a comparison on the two values. I thought, if I bind to CallContextBpmData on character01 and character02, possibly I could compare those values. However, it seems those values don’t save in real time so it’s always comparing null values. Is there a way to strictly check the Text property of a control?

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My expression is

"{CallContextBpmData.Character01} === {CallContextBpmData.Character02}"

But is there a way to reference a control in an expression directly?

I don’t know if I’m just searching the wrong topics but I haven’t been able to find what I’m looking for, a lot of good information out there already from you all but it’s also a learning curve as to what to even search for.

Edit, changing it to quotes around each field is the trick, woops.

"{CallContextBpmData.Character01}"  ===  "{CallContextBpmData.Character02}"

Missed quotes around the fields

"{CallContextBpmData.Character01}"  ===  "{CallContextBpmData.Character02}"