Concatenate two text fields without null

Owned by Daniel Barrow
Aug 29, 2023

Abstract

This code snippet concatenates two text fields ignoring null values

Logic

Access the text fields, check for null values 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, to calculate and display the concatenation of two text fields Customer Name and Machine details in a Calculated Text field.

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

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