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Workflow conditional decision to find any that do not match a constraint

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Updated July 29, 2019

asked on July 29, 2019

Can I get a Workflow conditional decision to act only upon a field entry that does NOT match a specific contraint such as: \w{1,2}-\d{2}-\d{3}-\d{2}-\w\d

Would love to have this workflow run weekly as a quality control tool. Currently, it's just finding that everything doesn't match:

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replied on July 29, 2019

"does not equal" will look for a literal match. If you want to use regular expressions, you need to change your operator to "does not match regular expression".

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replied on July 29, 2019

Looks like you are missing the "\" at the beginning of the expression? Right before the first "w".

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replied on July 29, 2019 • Show version history

Right. Good catch. I fixed that and re-ran the workflow. Still reported that all the test documents with this pattern did not match, when they actually do match.

Target document field shows:

Note: I did change the wf to allow for more than one value in that field (thus the change to "ForEachValue_Current Value"; and I also made it target just one document for this test.

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replied on July 29, 2019

"does not equal" will look for a literal match. If you want to use regular expressions, you need to change your operator to "does not match regular expression".

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replied on July 29, 2019

That was it! Sorry, I did not spot that one down below! Thanks!

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