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Concatenate text fields without null - Groovy

Owned by Radhika Vijji. (Unlicensed)
Last updated: Nov 19, 2018
1 min read

Abstract

This code snippet concatenates two text fields ignoring null values

Logic

Access the text fields and concatenate them

Snippet

textutils.noNull(<First text field>) + "<Delimiter>" + textutils.noNull(<Second text field>)

Placeholders

Placeholder

Description

Example

<First text field>
Accessing the first text field
issue.get("description")
"<Delimiter>"
Delimiter separating the text fields"\n"
<Second text field>
Accessing the second text field
issue.get("summary")

Examples

The output of this code is a String which you could, for example use in:

A Groovy expression, for example to:

  • Set a text field to the concatenation of two other text fields. Eg: The summary of the issue to the concatenation of two custom field values, say Customer Name and Machine details in:
    • one of the Set Field Value post-functions

    • the Create issue post-function under Set fields of new issue section

      textutils.noNull(issue.get("Customer Name")) + textutils.noNull(issue.get("Machine details"))

A Groovy template, for example to:

  • Include the key and description while notifying the customer when their issue has been resolved:
    • Comment in one of the Comment issue post-functions

    • Subject/HTML body/Text body of Email issue post-function

      Your issue <%=textutils.noNull(issue.getKey())%> - <%=textutils.noNull(issue.get("description")) %> has been resolved.

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