String Concatenation

Questions
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So, simple concept… I have User First Name and User Last Name. I want to put the first name followed by the last name’s first initial into an input box (eg. John Smith -> John S).

I am able to :append the first and last name, but I came across a problem where if I :truncate it does the command on the whole result.

CurrentUser’s FirstName:append :append CurrentUser’s LastName:Truncated to 1 gives “J”.

So now I’m trying to give it the length of First Name + 2… yeah, I can’t +2.

CurrentUser’s FirstName:append :append CurrentUser’s LastName:truncated to CurrentUser’s FirstName:number of characters+2 Gives “John+2”

I also don’t have the option of “+” unless I do a second :number of characters… but then that just prints out the correct number 6.

Am I missing something?
This should be trivial, right?

2

Truncate the last name first and then append to the first the truncated form.

3

Can you do that inline in one command or are you using an intermediate state?
That’s how I had to make it work… I had to use a custom state to either hold the length I wanted to truncate or the truncated last name.

I didn’t see an “:append to first” command.
Thanks

4

As far as I am aware you need to use a custom state and do it in 2 steps unfortunately.

5

Gotcha…
It’s strange because the “+” feature is there when doing the “:number of characters” for a state of type number. Just not in the input box formula (conditional) area.

Maybe a bug?

6

Not sure if it’s a bug. If something works, even with a hack or workaround, I don’t really worry too much if the logical direct route didn’t get me there.

7

Thanks

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Solution