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Filter

Reference for the MESA Filter.js custom code library, covering the process method that compares values and handles filter conditions, with parameters.

vendor/Filter.js

Procecsses filter conditions / values

Returns

  • Void

process(a, b, comparison, additional, options)

Section titled “process(a, b, comparison, additional, options)”

Processes filter comparison values, and comparison

Parameters

Name Type Description
a string
b string
comparison string
additional array Additional operator, a, b, and comparison fields
options object
options.setTaskStatus boolean If the task statis should be
options.strLabel string The text to set as the task’s label

Returns

  • boolean

Prevent empty context.trigger.metadata.additional values from being processed eg. metadata.additional: [{operator: ‘and’, comparison: ‘equals’}]

Parameters

Name Type Description
additional Array

Returns

  • boolean

Convert comparison value from a string to something more comparable

Parameters

Name Type Description
value string

Returns

  • string boolean number

Runs compare with two values

Parameters

Name Type Description
a string boolean number
b string boolean number
comparison string

Returns

  • boolean

Processes filter comparison values, and comparison

Parameters

Name Type Description
a string boolean number
b string boolean number
comparison string
additional array Additional operator, a, b, and comparison fields

Returns

  • string

Replace ‘’ NaN with the string (empty), handle other non-string types

Parameters

Name Type Description
str string boolean number

Returns

  • string

Determine if a variable is empty. Definition of empty: undefined, null, empty string “”, empty array [], empty object {}

Parameters

Name Type Description
str string boolean number

Returns

  • boolean