[rporteous]

Hi,

I’m using Advanced PDF/HTML transaction forms and trying to get the “First Name” of a contact on a transaction…

I can get the full name of the primary contact ${record.entity.contact} which gives me firstname and lastname…

I tried using ${record.entity.contact.firstname} but no luck… So over to the freemarker manual and I found the ?keep_before command.

So I tried this ${record.entity.contact?keep_before(” “)} thinking this might work… But alas, I am no programmer…

Any suggestions to get the first name for a primary contact for an transaction (estimate)?

Thanks

Russ
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[michoel]

The “?keep_before” built-in was only added to Freemarker version 2.3.21. Netsuite is still using an older version of the library (I believe 2.3.19).

As an alternative you can try something like the below –

Code:
${record.entity.contact?substring(0, record.entity.contact?index_of(” “))}

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rporteous replied on 02/08/2017, 08:36 PM: Thanks Michoel,

Unfortunately NS gave me this error during code validation…

The template cannot be saved due to the following errors:

Exception during template merging.

com.netledger.templates.TemplateServiceException: Exception during template merging.

java.lang.StringIndexOutOfBoundsException: String index out of range: -1

Any suggestions? My hunch is that “?substring” is deprecated…

Russ

[michoel]

Hey Russ,

That error is if there is no space in the contact name, so ?index_of returns -1.

Here’s a revised version that checks for this.

You are correct about ?substring being deprecated, so I’ve updated with the code to use “slicing expressions” instead (though I don’t think that was the cause of the above error).

Code:

${record.entity.contact[0..pos-1]}

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