Handling Quotation Marks in a Condition Expression

Kinetic ERP
1

I have a condition block that is checking whether or not a string in my dataview is blank. The string in my dataview contains a quotation mark. It looks like the quotation marks are being treated literally as part of the function expression, they are not being escaped. This is breaking the evaluation of the expression. How do I fix this?

Conditional Expression

"{DescriptionBuilder.SuggestedDescription}" != ""

DescriptionBuilder.SuggestedDescription Value

1018 CFS FLAT - 1.00" x 6.00"

Error (from browser dev tools)

function body "1018 CFS FLAT - 1.00" x 6.00"" != "" thrown exception SyntaxError: Unexpected identifier 'x'
2

Well that’s certainly a bug, whether unintentional or poor coding. :thinking:

3

Have you found a workaround for this?

I’m running into this same issue in App Studio running 2024.1.

4

I have not tried it again since I posted this last year.
Epicor claims it was fixed in 2024.1, according to this Problem record: PRB0269429

It was reported fixed on September 5, 2023.