Virtual functions

Escapes illegal characters in the field value to generate a valid JSON property. New lines, quotes, tabs and etc will be properly escaped

[entry.myfield.escapeJSON]

Tries to create an array from the value. Useful when you want to pass ConfiForms multi-select values to JIRA. Something like

"customfield_XXXX" : [[entry.myfield.asArray]]
 
this will generate
 
"customfield_XXXX" : ["val1","val2"]
 
assuming "myfield" field is a multi select and has 2 values: val1 and val2

There are variations to support other multi-select fields in JIRA

https://developer.atlassian.com/jiradev/jira-apis/about-the-jira-rest-apis/jira-rest-api-tutorials/jira-rest-api-example-create-issue

• asArrayMultiSelect
• asArrayMultiUserPicker (can be used to generate arrays for both: multi-user and multi-group field types)

asArray(separator)

FROM V. 1.35

Same as "asArray" without a parameter, but allows you to set own separator

Example:

asArray(') will wrap the values into list of 'v1', 'v2'...
asArray will do the same with default separator ", like this "v1", "v2"
asArray(_) will output _v1_, _v2_

Same as the above, but exporting IDs of the multi-select values in the following format:

"1", "2"

asArrayOfKVPairs(key)

FROM V. 1.35

Will output the list of values in a format:

{"key":"value"}, {"key2": "value2"}

Useful for adding JIRA labels, like when giving a key as "add"

{"add": "value"}, {"add", "value2"}

Tries to format value as currency using either default or given format

https://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/text/DecimalFormat.html

If value could not be formatted according to given format then value will be returned as is

You can reference a particular attachment stored in Confluence and linked though ConfiForms Field (either File or Attachment picker)

n - is the index of the attachment stored/linked using ConfiForms Field. Index starts with 0. When no index is specified, then the 1st attachment is taken (1st attachment is stored with index 0)

This means that

asAttachment = asAttachment(0)

This function is a "bridge" to get other properties of the attachment stored. See below.

Where ANY_PROPERTY is the "get" methods of the class Attachment https://docs.atlassian.com/confluence/5.9.1/com/atlassian/confluence/pages/Attachment.html

Examples:

asAttachment.displayTitle
asAttachment.id
asAttachment.downloadPath
asAttachment.contentType 
 
and many other properties of the Attachment object
 
asAttachment(1).displayTitle - also perfectly valid and will try to get the display title for the attachment stored "second" in the field

asUsers

FROM V. 1.39.2

Converts multi-user / multi-owner (ownedBy field in ConfiForms) field values to list of user objects, which can be then transformed into the desired output as needed, for example:

ownedBy.asUsers.transform(email)

Any property of the User object (see below) is accessible

 When working with multi-select user control/field and want to get a particular user info

Example:

[entry.id.asEntryRef(entry.id)]

This will return

[entry.id]

When this is necessary?

The use case is when you use it within an IFTTT or have a ListView which has another ListView inside and you want to prevent ConfiForms from applying the context variables onto the sub-lists

The function can be used with any field type (as long as the field exists) and actually the following constructions are perfectly valid

[entry.id.asEntryRef(entry.somefield)] will return [entry.somefield]
[entry.id.asEntryRef(entry.mytextfield)] will return [entry.mytextfield]
[entry.id.asEntryRef(entry.anotherfield)] will return [entry.anotherfield]
[entry.id.asEntryRef(entry.id)] will return [entry.id]

As you can see we apply the function on the same ID field (exists in every ConfiForms record) and the parameter you give in is the important bit in all this...

So, the parameter (PARAM) you give to asEntryRef is wrapped into the brackets and returned:

[PARAM]

You can also use "_func" pseoudo property of a record as a bridge to "asEntryRef" function when the "id" is not available (assigned)

This is always available

[entry._func.asEntryRef(entry.somefield)] will return [entry.somefield]
[entry._func.asEntryRef(entry.mytextfield)] will return [entry.mytextfield]
[entry._func.asEntryRef(entry.anotherfield)] will return [entry.anotherfield]
[entry._func.asEntryRef(entry.id)] will return [entry.id]

asVelocityExpRef(VALUE)

FROM V. 1.50.1

asRef(VALUE)

FROM V. 1.53.8

entry.somefield.asUserProfile.phone

entry.somefield.asUserProfile.im

entry.somefield.asUserProfile.website

entry.somefield.asUserProfile.position

entry.somefield.asUserProfile.department

entry.somefield.asUserProfile.location

Converts the list of some objects into the list of values for the given property

For example:

[entry.myfile.asAttachments.transform(id)]

When "myfile" is a field of type file/attachment, a function "asAttachments" will convert it's values into the list of Attachments objects and then function "transform" will extract and "id" property of each Attachment object and will put it into the resulting list

[entry.myfile.asAttachments.transform(id).asList]

Same as in previous example, but we convert the otput into a comma separated list of attachment IDs

Below, is another example, which returns a result of ID's, but wrapped into quotes

[entry.myfile.asAttachments.transform(id).asArray]

Function "transform" can be used on a multi-value field.(on Multi-select fields, which hold the structure of ID and LABEL (properties "id" and "label")) See Accessing field values and properties and dropdown fields

For example, to get the list of dropdown IDs

[entry.mymultifield.transform(id)]

To get the list of dropdown labels

[entry.mymultifield.transform(label)]

To get the list of User's full names for multi-user field (User field has properties: fullName, username, email, lastName, firstname) See Accessing field values and properties

[entry.mymultiuserfield.transform(fullName)]

same as above, but in "coma-separated" string

[entry.mymultiuserfield.transform(fullName).asList]

Adds a numeric value to a field (can substract as well, if a negative number is given)

[entry.somedatefield.timestamp.add(86400000)]

to add 1 day to the date (value of 86400000 is in milliseconds)

[entry.somedatefield.timestamp.add(-86400000)]

to add -1 day (substract a day) to the date (value of 86400000 is in milliseconds)

split(separator)

split( )

Split is an intermediate function to help you with transforming the string values into the arrays of strings, which then can be used with "array type" virtual functions

For example:

We have a field type called "mytextfield" and want it's content to be passed to JIRA as labels. For this we need to make sure we split the entered text by "space" and then use a corresponding virtual function to transform the object inti the desired representation

mytextfield.split( ).asArrayMultiSelect

Any other "array type" function can be applied. For example to get the count, one will write the following

mytextfield.split( ).asCount

hasChanged(fieldName)

FROM V. 1.36

FROM V. 1.50.1 - can be used in Field Definition Rules as well!

FROM V. 1.51.6 - you can use it without specifying property to track ANY field change.

By using

hasChanged():true

Now you can easily understand if the field value has been changed or not. Can be used ONLY (from ConfiForms version 1.50.1 can be used in field definition rules as well!) in IFTTT macro, in "condition" parameter. Only in this case, we have a previous snapshot of the data for this record. And the function is applied on the whole entry and not on the field.

Example in IFTTT macro:

The result of the function is a boolean, "true" is returned when the value for the field is different from current, and "false" is returned otherwise

Example:

hasChanged(somefield):true

or

hasChanged(somefield):true AND hasChanged(anotherfield):false

In addition to "hasChanged" function, ConfiForms has a support to get "previous state" of the record. And that is using a "virtual property" called: "_previousState"

Below example has the same result as "hasChanged(somefield):true"

!somefield:[entry._previousState.somefield]

This expression could be also used with IFTTT macro condition to determine if the value has been changed, but also allows you to create a more sophisticated filters like the one below:

hasChanged(mynum):true AND mynum:<[entry._previousState.mynum]

Checks if the value has been changed and if the previous value was bigger than current

hasChanged(MyStatus):true AND MyStatus:development AND _previousState.MyStatus:requested

asUserLink

asUserLinks (same as above, but works on user multiselect fields)

FROM V. 1.36.3

Also, there is a function which renders it as a macro: useful for usage withing a template or LIstView/CalendarView

asUserLinkMacro

Generates a macro

<ac:link><ri:user ri:userkey="USER_KEY_HERE"></ac:link>

and renders the HTML out of it

USER_KEY_HERE is looked up by function based on the username given

asLink

FROM V. 1.37.1

asLinks

FROM V. 1.38

asLink(Some label)

FROM V. 1.44

Renders a link to local resource

acLinkMacro functions generates a macro only (without rendering to HTML)

<ac:link><ri:page ri:content-title="SPACEKEy:PAGE_TITLE"/></ac:link>

parseDate(FORMAT)

FROM V. 1.36.6

Tries to format date fields in the specified format, expects date format as in http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/text/SimpleDateFormat.html

Example on how to parse and format a date from JIRA issue

jirakey.fields.created.parseDate(yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSSZ).formatDate(yyyy-MM-dd)

In this example we have a field called "jirakey" in ConfiForms Form, and access a property "created" from JIRA issue.

Then we parse the created date, using the format JIRA uses when returning the date/time field via REST API and then we format the date using another virtual function called "formatDate" to show it as year-month-day only

join

FROM V. 1.38

You can join the field values into one string. Works best on multi-select fields

Form example (expect a field to be a multi-select field here):

id:[entry.mymultifield.transform(id).join( OR id:)]

Will extract the ID's from a record stored, and then join (concatenate) those ID's into one string, separated by OR id:

Something like this (when mymultifield contains 2 items):

id:1234-5678-9000-1234-5678-9000 OR id:1234-5678-9000-1234-5678-9001

asJIRAIssue

FROM V. 1.40

asInsightObject

FROM V. 1.49.1

asPage

FROM V. 1.40

userInSecurityGroup

securityGroupHas

FROM V. 1.40

Both functions allow you to check if a particular user belongs to a given security group or not

Examples:

If field "u" is holding a username and we want to check if this user belongs to "confluence-administrators" group

u.userInSecurityGroup(confluence-administrators)

If field "sg" holds a name of a security group and we want top check if a username is in this security group

sg.securityGroupHas(sash)

In the example below we check the same, but for currently logged in user

sg.securityGroupHas()

Both functions return "true" when condition is matched and "false" otherwise

(without quotes)

This means that if you need to put a filter to check the condition, the full expression will look like:

u.userInSecurityGroup(confluence-administrators):true

or

sg.securityGroupHas():true

get(index)

FROM V. 1.42.4

Using get() without an index will return the last item from the list

FROM V. 1.44.2

Get's the element by index form a multi-value field

To get the first element (index starts from 0)

somefield.get(0)

Another example with chaining the functions (when somefield holds a string value and we split it by "," and get the first element)

somefield.split(,).get(0)

append

FROM V. 1.43

Appends text to a value

Will append a space to the value of "somefield"

somefield.append( )

For multi-select dropdown, adding space after transformation and shows in as html link

somefield.transform(label.append()).asLinks

prepend

FROM V. 1.45.2

Prepends text to a value

Will append a space to the value of "somefield"

somefield.prepend(SOME TEXT HERE)

lowerCase

FROM V. 1.44.2

upperCase

FROM V. 1.44.2

formatLinks

FROM V. 1.45.2

Tries to format the http(s) links found in the text as HTML links

somefield.formatLinks

greenhopperAsJSON

FROM V. 1.45.3

Tries to parse the fiedl value returned by JIRA API for greenhopper fields

com.atlassian.greenhopper.service.sprint.Sprint@71f1f2ae[id=6745,rapidViewId=2391,state=ACTIVE,name=My Sprint 2,startDate=2017-08-29T10:46:33.923+01:00,endDate=2017-09-08T10:46:00.000+01:00,completeDate=<null>,sequence=6745]

to a structure you can access via properties

id=6745
rapidViewId=2391
state=ACTIVE
name=My Sprint 2
startDate=2017-08-29T10:46:33.923+01:00
endDate=2017-09-08T10:46:00.000+01:00
completeDate=
sequence=6745

Example (to return a sprint name)

myJIRAField.fields.customfield_10900.greenhopperAsJSON.name

asIFTTTRef(RESULT_NAME_AND_MORE)

FROM V. 1.47.2

The idea and the need for this function is the same as described for function asEntryRef(REF_TO_ENTRY)

This allows you to "escape" the ${IftttResult_NAME.someproperty} into a function to workaround template evaluations against the current record. Useful when your ConfiForms Form creates a page with another ConfiFormiForms Form and that form has various rules using iftttResults or entry.fieldnames

entry.id.asIFTTTRef(MYRESULT.id) will produce ${iftttResult_MYRESULT.id}


entry.id.asIFTTTRef(MYRESULT) will produce ${iftttResult_MYRESULT}

asUserProfileLink

FROM V. 1.48

Outputs a field value as a link to user profile (with avatar and full name). The field must have a username as a value

[entry.myfieldholdingusername.asUserProfileLink]

replaceAccents

replaceAccents()

FROM V. 1.48.2

Replaces the following accents letters using the folllwing mapping

"Ä" -> "Ae"
"Æ" -> "Ae"
"ä" -> "ae"
"æ" -> "ae"
"Ö" -> "Oe"
"ö" -> "oe"
"Ü" -> "Ue"
"ü" -> "ue"
"ß" -> "ss"
"ó" -> "o"
"ú" -> "u"
"Ç" -> "C"
"ç" -> "c"
"í" -> "i"
"Ñ" -> "N"
"ñ" -> "n"
"À" -> "A"
"Â" -> "A"
"à" -> "a"
"â" -> "a"
"È" -> "E"
"É" -> "E"
"Ê" -> "E"
"è" -> "e"
"é" -> "e"
"ê" -> "e"

[entry.myfield.replaceAccents]

replaceWith(searchstring,replacewith)

FROM V. 1.48.2

Replaces every value matching "search string" in a field with given "replace with" value

[entry.myfield.replaceWith(hi,hola)]

Will match every "hi" and replace it with "hola"

formatLink(url)

formatLink(url|label)

FROM V. 1.51.3

Helps you to create http links from values in ConfiForms directly in teh views

[entry.myfield.formatLink(https://google.com?q=)] 


will create a <a href="https://google.com?q=<VALUE_OF_MY_FIELD>" target="_blank"><VALUE_OF_MY_FIELD></a>

the below example shows how to specify a contant label for your links

[entry.myfield.formatLink(https://google.com?q=|search)] 


will create a <a href="https://google.com?q=<VALUE_OF_MY_FIELD>" target="_blank">search</a>

timestamp

FROM V. 1.52.1

asHex

FROM V. 1.52.1

Converts string into hex representation

You can use it with other functions, as usual... something like

[entry.myfield.asHex.upperCase]

dec2Hex

FROM V. 1.52.1

Converts decimals to hex

As always, you can chain the functions

[entry.myfield.dec2Hex.upperCase]
[entry.myfield.dec2Hex.trim(4)] - returns last 4 digits, instead of 000000D2 for 210 will return 00D2

randomInt(minVal)

FROM V. 2.0.8

You can generate tips from ConfiForms data with something like

<ac:macro ac:name="confiform-plain">
  <ac:parameter ac:name="filter">valuecounter:[entry._total.randomInt(1)]</ac:parameter>
  <ac:parameter ac:name="formName">f</ac:parameter>
  <ac:parameter ac:name="atlassian-macro-output-type">INLINE</ac:parameter>
  <ac:plain-text-body><![CDATA[[entry.advice]]]></ac:plain-text-body>
</ac:macro>

To show "random" advice from your form of "advices"

Where "valuecounter" field is autonumber field and we randomly picking one record from a dataset, starting from 1 (that is why we use "randomInt(1)" function on _total field)

Formats number with a given locale

formatNumberWithLocale(de) will format the number in German locale.

See supported locales in Java 8, https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/java8locales-2095355.html

compactDateTimeInterval

FROM V. 2.0.23

Helper function to render DateTime Interval field values in a more compact way when the date for start and end is within the same day

[entry.mydatetimeintervalfield.compactDateTimeInterval]

Example (the output format is specific to your Confluence date/time formatting settings):

Mar 19, 2019 2:00 PM  - Mar 19, 2019 3:00 PM

Mar 19, 2019 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM

Mar 19, 2019 2:00 PM  - Mar 20, 2019 3:00 PM

Mar 19, 2019 2:00 PM  - Mar 20, 2019 3:00 PM