Concatenate two text fields without null

Owned by Daniel Barrow
Aug 29, 2023
1 min read

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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