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Add 'enclose' and 'isempty' keys to text supplier
A couple of simple ideas to add value to the text supplier in the Reporting Supplier API
* An 'enclose X' key would automatically enclose the text -- IF any is found -- in one of the enclosing characters, namely (), {}, <>, [], etc. The X value would just be the left member of the pair. Unlike other keys (e.g. trim), this would actually augment the text.
* A related key would be 'isempty' which would return a boolean, eliminating the need to use 'text:size > number:equal 0'. One could also add 'iswhite' which would detect if the entire text element was whitespace.
* An 'enclose X' key would automatically enclose the text -- IF any is found -- in one of the enclosing characters, namely (), {}, <>, [], etc. The X value would just be the left member of the pair. Unlike other keys (e.g. trim), this would actually augment the text.
* A related key would be 'isempty' which would return a boolean, eliminating the need to use 'text:size > number:equal 0'. One could also add 'iswhite' which would detect if the entire text element was whitespace.
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Inappropriate?They sound like reasonable ideas. Could you please add a feature request and I'll schedule it to get looked at for the next release.
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Inappropriate?Does anybody have an example of the is empty text supplier? I'd like to use it to see if no value exists for a scaffolding field in a report table. -
Inappropriate?Hi there,
The feature will be coming in the next release of Reporting. You would use it something like this:
{report-table}
{local-reporter:page:children}
{boolean-filter:data:is empty|value=false}
{local-reporter}
{report-column:title=Page}{report-info:page:title|link=true}
{report-table}
However, if the value is actually 'null', you may get unpredictable results, since the 'is empty' key will not actually get called unless the string exists.
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