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How to Remove Blanks From Entry Name?

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Updated November 29, 2022

asked on November 29, 2022

Hello,

I am working on a workflow to re-name an entry based off of the serial number fields in the template for the entry. There are multiple fields (ie. S/N 1, S/N 2, S/N 3, S/N 4, etc), that may be used, or only some may be used. In the token dialog the entry name is formatted "SN1-SN2-SN3-SN4" and I'm looking for a way to remove extra blanks and "-" when all of the serial fields are not used, to avoid "SN1-SN2- - -" entry names. So far I am striking out, anyone have any suggestions?

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replied on November 29, 2022

You could put the name together then run it through pattern matching to drop the empty dashes at the end. Something like (.+)(\w|\d) to force it to end in a number or letter. Depending on what your serial numbers look like, this pattern may require a bit of tweaking.

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replied on November 29, 2022

Hi Miruna,

Thank you very much for the help, that worked perfectly.

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replied on November 29, 2022

Hello,

I saw this post - https://answers.laserfiche.com/questions/110201/Using-the-Retrieve-Field-Values-atoken-option-of-a-multifield-to-rou#110220. Not sure if applicable, as uncertain if your serial number fields is a multifield or if you have separate fields for each serial number option. If it was a multifield, based on this post, it sounds like you could add some conditioning before you rename so that it looks for empty values. I may be way off base here.

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