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Unwanted values populating in a custom jira report in PDF format

P_32wdwa

While generating a custom report in PDF format a field is populating unwanted values. Values which are not present in the task.

A custom field is simply not selected at all. (Field is not used). It is not a mandatory field. So a default value is being populated. But that is not the desired output.

Is there any way to keep a hyphen (-) instead of populating default values.

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Aron Gombas _Midori_

Because your question is tagged with "midori", I suspect you are using the Better PDF Exporter app.

If so, I'm a developer working on it and happy to help, but I need more details:

Can you share an output sample that demonstrates the problem?
Can you share the template code?
What is the custom field type of the problematic field?
How is that default value populated to the field?

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Aron Gombas _Midori_

Because your question is tagged with "midori", I suspect you are using the Better PDF Exporter app.

If so, I'm a developer working on it and happy to help, but I need more details:

Can you share an output sample that demonstrates the problem?
Can you share the template code?
What is the custom field type of the problematic field?
How is that default value populated to the field?

P_32wdwa

Hi Aron,

Thank you for getting back!

Yes, we use Better PDF Exporter app.

Recovery timeline is the custom field.

"Recovery Timeline" is EMPTY - is the condition in the query.

Example of what the value is in the below picture

as per the query, the value of the field should be empty in the pdf file

but it's populating current date of the system. If the above condition is used in the query.

If that condition is not being used it is populating Recovery timeline date of the previous project that is rendered in the PDF.

But the expected output is a hyphen (-) or a blank column.

#set($recoveryTimeline = $customFieldManager.getCustomFieldObjectByName("Recovery Timeline"))
#set($recoverytimelinevalue = $issue.getCustomFieldValue($recoveryTimeline))

<fo:block>
$userDateTimeFormatter.withStyle($dateTimeStyle.DATE).format($recoverytimelinevalue)
</fo:block>

is the format in which I'm calling the value.

Please let me know if you need more details.

Aron Gombas _Midori_

It's just a quick idea, but if you can find a good condition to decide if you want to see the actual value or a hyphen in the output, then of course you could just:

#set($recoverytimelinevalue = $issue.getCustomFieldValue($recoveryTimeline))
<fo:block>
#if(... your condition comes here ...)
 ## export the value
 $userDateTimeFormatter.withStyle($dateTimeStyle.DATE).format($recoverytimelinevalue)
#else
 ## export the hyphen
 -
#end
</fo:block>

So, the question what would be the correct condition?

As a dumb one, I could imagine that you check if the $recoverytimelinevalue holds a time value that is older than an hour. If it is not, then it is the "current date", so you render the hyphen. Otherwise you render the actual value.

P_32wdwa

You are not dumb at all.

It works like a charm!

Thank you so much Aron

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