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The Format field value post function gives format to the current value of a field using a set of formatting operations.

In this documentation and the post function configuration you will notice the symbol ( * ) next to some parameters, it means that this field is mandatory and shall not be left empty. Fields without the symbol are optional.

Basic configuration*

Below you will find a detailed description of each parameter of the basic configuration of the function.

Field*

Select the field to be formatted.

White space mode

Select an operation to edit blanks. The following options are available (multiple choice is possible):

  • Remove all leading white space
  • Remove all trailing white space
  • Leave only one white space between words
  • Remove all white spaces in the text


Case mode*

Select whether to edit cases. The following options are available:

  • Do nothing
  • Convert all the characters to lower case
  • Convert all characters to upper case
  • Capitalize all the whitespace-separated words
Find and replace


Find mode

Choose between the following options:

  • Text (case sensitive)
  • Text (ignoring case)
  • Regular expression (case sensitive)
  • regular expression (ignoring case)

Expression*

Enter plain text and optionally use field codes to insert field values.

You can try your expression by clicking on the play button on the top right of the expression box.

Replace mode

Choose between the following two options:

  • Replace first occurrence
  • Replace all occurrences

Expression*

Enter plain text and optionally use field codes to insert field values.

You can try your expression by clicking on the play button on the top right of the expression box.

Additional options

You have the option to Update issues immediately (each field update results in a dedicated "Issue Updated" event and issue history entery.

Conditional execution

Enter a condition (Logical / boolean condition) using the JWT expression parser - full feature list syntax.

You can even logically link and gather conditions in expressions as you like in order to map more complex conditions.

The post function will only be executed if the condition is met (returns true).



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