Copying partial text from another field

[apsimpkins]

Hi,

I would like to add a post function that can copy the text from an existing field (Summary field), I only want to extract the characters from the beginning of the field up to the first space. Equally I want to do the same but from the end of the field, back to the last space. The amount of characters is not a fixed amount.

Is this possible?

Regards,

Andy

[Fidel Castro Armario]

Hi @apsimpkins,

Yes, it's possible to do it. You can use "Parse field for extracting data" post-function to do it.

Do you want to copy the beginning and the end of issue summary to a same field, or to 2 different fields?

[apsimpkins]

Excellent, thanks for the quick response Fidel. I want to extract the text at the front and copy it into one field. Then (presumably in another post function) I want to extract the text from the end and copy that into a different field.

Thanks,

Andy

[Fidel Castro Armario]

Hi @apsimpkins,

For extracting the first word of summary you should use "Parse field for extracting data" with the following configuration:

• Leading delimiter: leave it empty
• Trailing delimiter: regular expression \n.

In my example I selected a text custom field called Short Text to store the first word of summary.

For extracting the last word of issue summary you should use the following configuration:

• Leading delimiter: regular expression \s
• Trailing delimiter: regular expression $
• Value format: regular expression [^ ]+

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