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Split not working

Negjat Jusaj

Hello community,

I am trying to map the following use case in an automation, unfortunately without success: I want to "increment" the current value of the Angenummer attribute in asset management, in the first step I try to divide the string Angenummer (2024/1), unfortunately that doesn't work for me (I don't get a result): I have already tried the following functions:

{{lookupObjects.first.Angenummer}} = Angenummer is displayed {{lookupObjects.first.Angenummer.split("/").1.asNumber}} = No result {{lookupObjects.first.Angenummer.split("/").1}} = No result {{lookupObjects.first.Angenummer.split("/")}} = No result Test {{lookupObjects.first.Angenummer.trim().split("/").1}} = No result Result

I've already tried substring - unfortunately without result.... Does anyone have an idea why this doesn't work?

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Bill Sheboy

Hi @Negjat Jusaj

You state you have tried several things, yet the community cannot observe those to compare what you believe happened to what the rule execution shows...

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 one single image file
images of any relevant actions / conditions / branches
an image of the audit log details showing the rule execution

Kind regards,
Bill

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Sebastian Krzewiński

Hi @Negjat Jusaj

As I remember split() is working on strings. I'm not sure that your script knows that you are working on string.

Please try to add toString() before split()

Also what is see is you are using LookupObjects which is array so definatelly your split() is trying to work on array, not string.

Regards,

Seba

Salih Tuç

Hi @Negjat Jusaj ,

".1" is not a valid getter for the list type in smart values. You can use following to access the elements:

first -> To access first element (Element at 0, first part of the split)
last -> To access the last element
get(i) -> To access the ith element

So, just change your smart values as {{lookupObjects.first.Angenummer.split("/").get(1)}} in order to get "1" from "2024/1"

Salih Tuç

Hi @Sebastian Krzewiński , the value is "2024/1", so it is probably a string at first place I think this is related with ".1" at the end.

Negjat Jusaj

Hi,

thanks for your contribution, unfortunately I still don't get any results

Salih Tuç

Ok, then new idea:

Create an attribute -> angenummer => {{lookupObjects.first.Angenummer.toString()}}
Log that value
Run the split on this new attribute -> {{angenummer.split("/").get(1)}}
Log that value

And then, can you share the logs if this doesn't work?

Negjat Jusaj

Hi Salih,

thanks for your help. I'm already running the logging, the problem is that I'm not getting any errors with the smart values used, but simply no results are being output.

Bill Sheboy

Hi @Negjat Jusaj

You state you have tried several things, yet the community cannot observe those to compare what you believe happened to what the rule execution shows...

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 one single image file
images of any relevant actions / conditions / branches
an image of the audit log details showing the rule execution

Kind regards,
Bill

Callum Carlile _Automation Consultants_

@Negjat Jusaj Apologies to respond to a resolved thread, and you may have already found your solution by now...

But I recently have found the same issue with the split function not working with lookupObjects results, and what worked for me was:

Find the objects using the Lookup Objects action
Set a variable to {{lookupObjects}} - e.g. called variableOne
Then use the split function, or any other functions you need, on the variable - using {{variableOne.split("/")[.etc.etc]}}

This worked for me, hopefully will be helpful for others running into the same problem!

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