The command global makes the Var element accessible outside the trial where it is defined. Reference
Your code should work, but if you look back at the excerpt of code in my previous message, you’ll notice the .log command is indented more to the left than the other commands and is actually called on the closing parenthesis of newTrial and before the closing parenthesis of Template (although I omitted the Template and newTrial commands that come earlier in the code). Reference
Jeremy