Smart values function "contains" missing/not working

[Jared Schmitt]

In my automation I'm calling the Atlassian API and want to populate a variable based on the following condition:

{{if(or(webResponse.body.id.contains("customfield_1"),webResponse.body.id.contains("customfield_2")),"fieldsPresent","fieldsNotPresent")}}

The condition always evaluates to false and hence prints "fieldNotPresent".

However, when using an IF block and using a smart value condition 

{{webResponse.body.id}}

CONTAINS

customfield_1

this works perfectly fine.

I'm under the impression it worked in the past. Surprisingly "contains" is not documented (anymore), neither for lists nor for text fields.

[Jared Schmitt]

Thanks all, I went with a nested IF clause to filter for the events I'm interested in. It's quite astounding that smart values don#t support contains keyword, but oh well.

[Nick]

.contains() function seems to exist and work (at least for strings), but yeah, seems to have disappeared from docs?

This works for me right now in an automation rule:

1. Set variable varTest to: Hello, World!

2. Log action: {{if(varTest.contains("World!"),"Yes","No")}}

Logs: Yes

3. Log action: {{if(varTest.contains("Word"),"Yes","No")}}

Logs: No

4. Log action: {{if(varTest.contains("Hello,"),"Yes","No")}}

Logs: Yes

[Bill Sheboy]

Hi @Jared Schmitt 

For a question like this, context is important for the community to help.  Please post the following:

• an image of your complete automation rule in a single image for continuity
• images of any relevant actions / conditions / branches
• an image of the audit log details showing the rule execution

Until we see those...

Would you please confirm, are you testing for a match to the value of custom fields in the web response body, or to the literal text "customfield_1"?

And, there is no contains() function in smart values, and thus other methods must be used.

Kind regards,
Bill

[Gor Greyan]

Hi @Jared Schmitt

Yes, the "contains" is not supported. 
Instead, you can try to use match()

{{if(or(webResponse.body.id.match("customfield_1"),webResponse.body.id.match("customfield_2")),"fieldsPresent","fieldsNotPresent")}}

Please try the above-mentioned one.

[Jared Schmitt]

Thank you for the fast reply. I tried that and didn't change the result.

[Gor Greyan]

Dear @Jared Schmitt

If match() also didn't work, it can be because it wasn't applied to a string.

Try this one, please.

{{if(
gt(
webResponse.body.asJsonString.match("(customfield_(?:1|2))").size,
0
),
"fieldsPresent",
"fieldsNotPresent"
)}}