Ok. so after spending a day on this, I realized my second "notes += ..." should have been "notes = ...". So that variable kept building even after a...

Ahhh.... My mistake, I though those would update during execution. I did a message box and it does in fact update. I think I see the real failure point with...

Additionally, if I click the ""Show all variables" button in the variables pane, nothing changes. I only have three variables in the entire package and they are all uniquely named.

As far as I can tell that variable only exists at the package level. The variable is an empty string to begin with and after the script step runs, it...