How to remove square brackets from picklist value

[Zaldy Parian]

Hi all,

Hoping someone can help me with my problem. I searched around about removing square brackets in this community website and also google. But I can't seem to find the answer that could help me.

My problem is, I'm using lookupIssues to get all approvers of all request tickets. The Approvers field is a custom field, and it has one or many picklist value. I tried this piece of code in the automation log just to see the list of approvers that I need to send the email to: 

Approver list: {{#lookupIssues.customfield_10003.displayName.distinct}}{{.}};{{/}}

However, the list I got has square brackets in each name; e.g. [John Smith]; [Jane Doe]; [Steve McQueen]

The JQL for my lookupIssues is like this:

project = SIT AND status = "Waiting for approval" AND "Approvers[User Picker (multiple users)]" is not EMPTY

Ultimately, my goal is to get the list of approvers and put them in the To: field of an email to remind the approvers of the pending requests.

Can someone please help guide me how I could remove the square brackets from the resulting list of approvers? Or is there a better to get to my goal?

Cheers.

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

These are not really Brackets in the text, and they're telling you that each name is a value in an array or list.  The brackets are acting as item delineators, not text.

This is because a multi-picker is a list of options.

You do not need to "remove brackets", you should iterate over the returned list.

[Zaldy Parian]

Hi Nic,

As always, I appreciate your quick responses to my queries.

Apologies if I'm a bit lost here. By "you should iterate over the returned list.", what/how exactly would I do this?  Would be able to give me some example?

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

See https://support.atlassian.com/cloud-automation/docs/jira-smart-values-lists/

[Zaldy Parian]

I tried havig this in the log:
Approver list: {{#list}}{{customfield_10003.displayName.distinct}}{{.}};{{/}}

But I got a blank result. 

Perhaps my syntax is wrong?