Advanced My Tokens: Apache Velocity and Null checking

Question

Hey guys, i'm getting started with Velocity and am trying to check if a record in Salesforce's Name is blank, and do some logic.

I've solved this by switching the null check to $foo != "" but I'm still interested to see what you guys know about Nulls in Marketo's implementation of Velocitybecause the information I've seen online is sporadic, I'm going to encounter it later, and the stuff I've played with below threw a minimalistic error:

#set( $foo = ${lead.FirstName} )

#if ($foo != null)
Hello $foo!
#else
Hello Unknown Person!
#end

When sending test email:

#set( $foo = ${lead.FirstName} )#if ($foo != null)  Hello $foo!#else  Hello Unknown Person!#end
When sending test email:

Anonymous · Answer

I am guessing you are seeing this error because FirstName does not return anything if there is no value.

Here's how I would implement this. Let me know what you think?

#set( $foo = ${lead.FirstName} )
#set( $blank = "" )

#if ($foo == $blank)
Hello Unknown Person!
#else
Hello $foo
#end

Sign up

Login with SSO

Login to the community

Login with SSO

Scanning file for viruses.

This file cannot be downloaded