text logic

RE: text logic

Mike Schmitt — Thu, 24 Aug 2023 17:53:36 GMT

joinArray(
ri!userList,
","
)

RE: text logic

Purvaja — Thu, 24 Aug 2023 17:46:00 GMT

Here, we are trying to find the index of ";" and replace with ","

RE: text logic

Mike Schmitt — Thu, 24 Aug 2023 17:43:53 GMT

This rule is confusing together the separate elements of array data and flat text data in several different places and several different ways - until you understand the difference and code to this, the output you see will consistently be unexpected and confusing. I'm not even clear what you're trying to do.

RE: text logic

Purvaja — Thu, 24 Aug 2023 17:34:18 GMT

and also, can you please help me to debug this logic. Instead of replacing ";" with "," it is removing the text

RE: text logic

Mike Schmitt — Thu, 24 Aug 2023 17:32:17 GMT

I would recommend against storing an array as a flat string like this. If you really need to, then I'd suggest you create a JSON string via a!toJson(), since the resulting JSON string will be able to be parsed back into an array later simply by using a!fromJson().

RE: text logic

Purvaja — Thu, 24 Aug 2023 17:28:47 GMT

but when I write to DB, it is writing with ";" but I want to write it with ","

RE: text logic

Mike Schmitt — Thu, 24 Aug 2023 17:23:11 GMT

Well the thing there is - a!pickerFieldUsers() will store an array of users - there should be no need to ever manually parse it via splitting a semicolon-delineated flat string.

RE: text logic

Purvaja — Thu, 24 Aug 2023 17:13:33 GMT

To be very clear,

I have a local variable list-> which stores the values of the pickerFieldUsers, it can be single user or multiple user values.

These values are passed to rule to get the desired output like this

{"txt1","txt2","text3"}

RE: text logic

Mike Schmitt — Thu, 24 Aug 2023 17:09:42 GMT

[quote userid="74863" url="~/discussions/f/new-to-appian/29769/text-logic/118104#118104"]rule inputs that passes the current user list,[/quote]

Can you provide some more detail on this? What format(s) are the rule input(s)? In what way is it/they assigned the "current user list"? What are you trying to achieve overall?

RE: text logic

Purvaja — Thu, 24 Aug 2023 17:06:56 GMT

Yes, Mike Schmittand Mathieu Drouin

I have rule inputs that passes the current user list,

eg: username1 or {username1; username2} or combination username1; {username1; username2}

Ideally, is there a way to append a string with ","

Let's say, I have a string of type text string, now if I want to {"txt1","txt2","text3"}. How to do that?

RE: text logic

Mike Schmitt — Thu, 24 Aug 2023 16:57:33 GMT

[quote userid="74863" url="~/discussions/f/new-to-appian/29769/text-logic/118100#118100"]can you suggest any alternative approach?[/quote]

Is this literal string the only thing you will ever need to handle? Or are there potential variations? This is why I was asking what the source for this string is - if we don't know what cases you'll need to handle, it's nearly impossible to give a meaningful solution.

RE: text logic

Mathieu Drouin — Thu, 24 Aug 2023 16:55:45 GMT

split function is not diving desired result

That's what I said :)

Problem is you have the same delimiter in both places. That's why Mike was asking where this string was coming from because maybe there is a better way to do this.

RE: text logic

Purvaja — Thu, 24 Aug 2023 16:53:41 GMT

Mike Schmitt and Mathieu Drouin can you suggest any alternative approach?

RE: text logic

Purvaja — Thu, 24 Aug 2023 16:47:06 GMT

split function is not diving desired result

RE: text logic

Mathieu Drouin — Thu, 24 Aug 2023 16:45:59 GMT

Yes you can use the split function but not sure if that will help you do what you want to do.

docs.appian.com/.../fnc_text_split.html

RE: text logic

Purvaja — Thu, 24 Aug 2023 16:42:58 GMT

Is there a way to split the words using functions in Appain?

RE: text logic

Mike Schmitt — Thu, 24 Aug 2023 16:40:31 GMT

[quote userid="74863" url="~/discussions/f/new-to-appian/29769/text-logic/118093#118093"]this text [/quote]

Where is "this text" coming from in the first place? It looks like you're handling an Appian array which, when rendered for display, is given with a ";" separator - but to clarify against a common misunderstanding, arrays do NOT actually contain a ";", it's just there for display reasons. However if you're trying to parse an already-flattened string, then it'll take a bit more work.

RE: text logic

Purvaja — Thu, 24 Aug 2023 16:39:42 GMT

userList = "username1; {username1; username2}"

finalList(Output):

username1

{username1; username2}

RE: text logic

Purvaja — Thu, 24 Aug 2023 16:38:29 GMT

From this text "username1; {username1; username2}", how can we split based on ";"

RE: text logic

Mike Schmitt — Thu, 24 Aug 2023 16:36:29 GMT

Please clarify what you mean by "get the output" - what is this referring to? What are you trying to do?