Conditional string display

Hi Richard,

how do You send this notification when the form is submitted? Are You using the 'Send Notification' action?

Then you can build your message using 'Build String' actions depending on  'Set a Condition' actions.

Kind Regards

Manfred

There is a Run If action in Nintex....that is where you can do your build string as Andrew recommended. There are also  regular expression actions. You can manipulate strings with that too!

Hi guys,

Yes - I understand that we can build conditional strings as part of the workflow actions.  My question is different as it relates to building these strings at run-time.  e.g. while the form is being displayed or even the text that is sent to a person via the email or flexi task actions.

What you're suggesting in the case of dynamic text for actions is to build the components of the email message using separate actions storing them in variables and then combine all of these variables and links in the email body.  My question is can this be done directly in the email body?

e.g.

If the mobile phone number is not supplied have the text:

     <preamble>

     To get a mobile phone number, please click here.

     <rest of the body>

NB here would be a hyperlink so it's not simply text.

If the mobile phone number is supplied have the text:

     <preamble>

     The mobile number you have selected is 123-456-789.

     <rest of the body>

Cheers,

Chris

Hey I have a similar situation, was this figured out?

Hi D M,

Not really.  What I've done subsequently is populate variables with the conditional text I want to display and then include these in the email body.  You could equally do the same with the build string action.  It's not as clean as I could like if you're working with rich text and want different colours/fonts etc within that conditional string.

Cheers,

Chris

This would be really handy!

I've got a task email and the customer wants to only show the submitter s annual leave balance if the request is for annual leave. I'm having to do an if statement first and set a variable to different text and then insert this in the email, but it's not formatted so looks silly in my nicely formatted email .

Why not do an If statement on the variables, depending on the result you have one email text or another. Or have 2 emails in the if statement. Based on if the variable is populated pick the email you want to send.

thank you!

Was this thread ever resolved?

Not really other than the fact inline functions don't exist for this type of situation.  The closest answer is creating a variable that is dynamically generated.  I guess this nice thing about rich text fields is that you can embed HTML in it so the variable can contain HTML and it should resolve with some manipulation.  e.g. to create a table or a hyperlink.

if you insist on having such an inline function you could write one on your own

Create Custom Inline Functions - Nintex Forms 

‌ did this ever resolve your issue? If so, please mark the solution that was helpful.

Thanks,

Burkslm

Hi Lisa,

As per my reply above, it's not really resolved.  If there was an official answer, it would be "no".  Marian has suggested the closest workaround so far.

Having in-line functions would signficantly cut down on the number of conditional + build string actions in a workflow. 

Thanks for the prompt though - it's caused me to go and create a uservoice suggestion.

Cheers,

Chris