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Freemarker ?keep_before

edited Dec 2, 2019 5:24PM in SuiteCloud / Customization 3 comments

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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