Visual Overview – add extra character to a SerVar

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Hello community,

Have a SetVar shapedata for custom text input shape and need in the background to add an extra character.

The user will only type <user input> but the SetVar should set the variable to example: # <user input>

Tried: SetVar  - <variable name>:# <user input>

Marieke Goethals [SLC] [DevOps Catalyst] Selected answer as best 14th July 2023

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Hi Sergio,

I see two options here:

  1. Session variables are typically used in other shape data by using a '[var:MyVariable]' placeholder. You can directly add the prefix in the shape data: '#[var:MyVariable]'. This means your session variable itself does not have the prefix but the shape data where that variable is used will have it.
  2. Use approach #1 and save it in another session variable (see docs).
Marieke Goethals [SLC] [DevOps Catalyst] Selected answer as best 14th July 2023
Sergio Abreu [SLC] [DevOps Advocate] commented

Hi Sebastiaan,

Thanks for the trick.
I tested and indeed #1 and #2 worked.
Have just an edge case, if user does not reopen the card and instead clears the text box, the prefix will not be removed on the new variable.
Sebastiaan Dumoulein [SLC] [DevOps Enabler] commented

Indeed, you could use the ‘RegexReplace’ functionality to replace a single hashtag (^#$) with an empty string as a workaround for that.
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