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Madhavi_T
Madhavi_T
Level 2
October 13, 2017
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FORM-Issue-Terms and conditions(Alert email).

  • October 13, 2017
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Hi,

When a lead checks the terms and conditions on a form, in an alert email I receive I expect- "The lead checked terms and conditions-Yes(as status)". but the value displayed is as "1" instead of "Yes".

What might be the reason and how can it be corrected.

Please help me with this.

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SanfordWhiteman
SanfordWhiteman
Level 10
October 13, 2017

Please search before posting! This is exactly the same (answered) question from earlier today: Alert email not reflecting form input

Madhavi_T
Madhavi_TAuthor
Level 2
October 13, 2017

Hi,

Am trying to use terms and conditions token, not an email script token or any other.

SanfordWhiteman
SanfordWhiteman
Level 10
October 13, 2017

Please read the context of the other question more carefully. It's the same situation as yours.

If you want a Boolean field to display with custom true/false text, instead of "1" or an empty string, you must pass the field into a Velocity token and output from there.

Eric_Salamon1
Eric_Salamon1
Level 6
October 19, 2017

Madhavi,

It looks to me as you are maybe not familiar with some tech language the computer reads true or false as 1,0 so when some one says false they are actually selecting 0. It may be easier to override that using the Velocity token Sanford mentioned if value = 0 or null then set value to false or value = 1 set value to true.

I have very limited scripting experience in velocity, but that would be the general language. Hope this helps.

    SanfordWhiteman
    SanfordWhiteman
    Level 10
    October 19, 2017

    Sorry, gotta be pedantic... in this case it's not that the boolean is being stored as bit 1/0. The boolean might never have an integer representation, but it's being stringified as "1" or "" into Velocity (this comes from PHP output semantics, not Velocity/Java). 

    In PHP the string-as-boolean comparison would still work with those values due to type juggling. But in Velocity/Java this breaks, since an empty string is more truthy than falsy, i.e. both options are truthy.

    That's why you need to either look for the specific String values "1" or "" or cast explicitly to Boolean.

      Eric_Salamon1
      Eric_Salamon1
      Level 6
      October 19, 2017

      I appreciate the correction, I thought I added the null or empty choice in my statement. At the same time the general concept is the same. you are looking for the specific value  or null value and replacing it with the text one.

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