[✅ Solution] Automation to find/replace variables

[CarsonRedCliffLabs]

I need to figure out the right calculation script to run a workflow that essentially looks for certain placeholders within a multi line text field ‘template’ and then replaces those with the defined variables from my current item in Tape.

For an example, I used to use a PHP variable as follows in Globiflow:

str_replace("[Company Phone]",[(Variable) senderPhone],
str_replace("[Lead Manager Name]",[(Variable) LMFName],
str_replace("[Address - Street Only]",[(Variable) streetaddress],
str_replace("[Full Address]",[(Variable) fulladdress],
str_replace("[Acquisition Manager Name]",[(Variable) AMFName],
str_replace("[Phone Number]",[(Variable) txtPhone],
strip_tags_gf([(Ref Message Template) Text Message Body])))))))

I tried various approaches from some google searching to accomplish this in Javascript but I have not found a good working answer yet.
I know this will be a simple answer for somebody, but my limited javascript skills have failed me here. Thanks in advance for any guidance here.

[Tim]

Hi @CarsonRedCliffLabs,

you should be able to use the default replace method for JavaScript strings, such as:

const result = title_field_value.replace('some placeholder', 'string to use as replacement')

… which will replace the first occurrence of some placeholder inside your string. If you want to replace all occurences instead, you can use the moden JS feature replaceAll instead:

const result = title_field_value.replaceAll('some placeholder', 'string to use as replacement')

You can then work with the resulting variable, reassign or pass it to following steps.

Let me know how that works!

Cheers
Tim

[CarsonRedCliffLabs]

Thank you Tim. I knew you’d come through for me!
I was able to get this working, I ended up using something similar to the following:

This gives me what I needed!