[DONE] How to get the comment value

🔧 Bugs & Issues
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I tried to use record_comment_or_reply_content_value to get the comment value in automation but its not working. any tips on how to get the value in triggering comment?

Cheers,

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Hi @comfreakph,

thank you very much for your report. I also tried to reproduce your issue directly.
It seems that the variable record_comment_or_reply_content_value is indeed empty and redundant. We will fix this immediately.

But you can use record_comment_or_reply_content_unformatted_value or
record_comment_or_reply_content_formatted_value instead.
Tested both and they include the comment or reply body.

I’ll report back here when we’ve merged the redundant variables.

Cheers
Leo

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thank you, its workin now.

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@Leo - I have actually always wondered why there were three choices there.
As you noted…

  1. record_comment_or_reply_content_value
  2. record_comment_or_reply_content_unformatted_value
  3. record_comment_or_reply_content_formatted_value

I get why the formatted or unformatted selections are different, but not sure what the first option is for. Any insight on the reason for this third choice?

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@CarsonRedCliffLabs @comfreakph you are both absolutely right. We are about to remove that redundant token (the first one) as it only leads to confusion - as this threads here confirms.

Sorry for that - consider it fixed (very) soon.

Cheers
Tim

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@CarsonRedCliffLabs yes that doesn’t surprise me that you wondered for what there are three choices here. I also wondered when I had a closer look.

The reason was the historical evolution, at the beginning there was only the record_comment_or_reply_content_value variable (which was equal to the current formatted_value) but because of a feature request the two new ones were introduced but we forgot to remove the old one, which we will do asap.

Cheers
Leo

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The redundant (and in additional to that useless) variable has been removed, you should not see it in your editor anymore. Thanks for bringing this up and for your input - let’s make this whole thing better everyday. :tada:

Cheers
Tim

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