Velocity Scripting Token help

Forum|Forum|7 years ago
August 15, 2018
3 replies
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What am I doing wrong!?

#if ($lead.FirstName.startsWith("First") )
#set ($name = "Hello")
#else
#set($name = "Hello $display.capitalize($lead.FirstName.toLowerCase())")
#end
$name

What I am trying to do... Leads can have the name "First Name 123". I want to change that to just Hello and then otherwise normalize the names (ERIN --> Erin). I can't seem to be able to figure it out!

Any help would be amazing. I am new to coding to be gentle. haha

Thank you!

Marketo

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Best answer by SanfordWhiteman

In this particular case you should use ${formal.notation} inside the output (you should only use formal in output).

#set($name = "Hello ${display.capitalize($lead.FirstName.toLowerCase())}")

What output are you seeing? The code looks otherwise syntactically correct. (Though I wouldn't use "name" as the variable name but rather "greeting," lest it be confusing.)

E

ErinCa12Author

Level 2

Forgot to mention that FirstName is checked on the right hand side.

SanfordWhitemanAccepted solution

Level 10

In this particular case you should use ${formal.notation} inside the output (you should only use formal in output).

#set($name = "Hello ${display.capitalize($lead.FirstName.toLowerCase())}")

What output are you seeing? The code looks otherwise syntactically correct. (Though I wouldn't use "name" as the variable name but rather "greeting," lest it be confusing.)

E

ErinCa12Author

Level 2

Thanks Sanford!

Neil_Robertson6

Level 4

as a side note - I'm really hoping that Velocity gets replaced at some stage Marketo - it is really good but not all packages are available and with newer tech now available it will be good to get this replaced with something more robust

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