Please check out Vadim Tabakman‌ blog post on using using the Regular Expression Action.

regular expressions in nintex workflow

Basically what you will need to do is do a SPLIT on the --- using the Regular Expression Action and then save your results into a Collection Variable, then Loop through your collection to do something or use the collection actions to get a certain index at a certain time. Let us know if you need more help with this.

I had seen the post from Vadim Tabakman‌, but unfortunately it doesn't work here.

I have a comment (within task list in column "Comment") like

YO

YO

YO

I did a query list and wrote the content into a collection variable.

Result:

colApproverComments: :{"OData__Comments":"YOu000du000aYOu000du000aYO"}]

First I tried this:

Result:

colApproverComments: :"[{""OData__Comments"":""YO\u000d\u000aYO\u000d\u000aYO"}]"]

I also tried this:

Result:

txtKommentar: :{"OData__Comments":"YOu000du000aYOu000du000aYO"}]

So neither split nor replace gave me the desired result.

Hi Michael Weiß‌,

Can you use 'Regular Expression' action and in the replace text use 'Enter' from keyboard.

Result:

It worked in SharePoint 2013, try it in Office 365.

Thanks,

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Hi ,

Yeah, that works with NINTEX onpremise, but unfortunately not with O365 (that was my second try as described above).

Cheers

mai-kel

Hi ‌,

You can use 'single line of text' workflow variable instead 'Collection' variable to store comments..did you try that?

If you want only comments from last approver then you can use 'Approver Comments' from insert reference.

Thanks,

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Aaaaaahhhhh.....!

This makes things so much easier - I used a set variable instead of a query list action to retrieve the data.

With that the comment is directly written into a text variable and not into a collection. Within the text variable the format is automatically correct.

Thanks mate!

Cheers

mai-kel

PS: I cannot mark your answer as correct because the question itself is still not answered. But I do not have a problem anymore!  

I have been able to add line breaks to a string variable using <br/>. I use the "build string" action.

Unfortunately <br> as well as
didn't work.

Did you put the slash though? <br/>?

No, I didn't. I will try next time.

Anyone figured how to do this for O365?

Any luck with linebreak in O365? Its still not working for me.

Hi Everyone, i just found out the solution for this one. using a build string in nintex online. press enter to seperate first row to second row. then go back to the end of first row. then press ctrl + enter. that should do the trick 🙂 cheers.