{{^last}} not working in this code. Any idea why?

[Troy Anderson]

Both of these are still printing a comma (, ) at the end of the list.  Any idea why??

[Bill Sheboy]

Hi @Troy Anderson 

Yes, and...to the suggestions from @Tuncay Senturk _Snapbytes_ with some adjustments...

For iteration which has filtering, I recommend not worrying about a trailing delimiter such as a comma; the complexity / risk of errors is not worth the trouble.

Instead, always add the delimiter and remove it later with text functions prior to a splitting back into a list.  Also, I recommend combining your iterators and conditional filtering.  For example:

• action: create variable
  • name: varFilteredList
  • smart value:

{{#lookupIssues.issuelinks}}{{#if(and(equals(type.inward, "is cloned by"), inwardIssue.key.startsWith("SCR")))}}{{key}} - {{status.name}},{{/}}{{/}}

• action: something that needs the list of values

{{varFilteredList.substringBeforeLast(",").split(",")}}

Given the number of filters, it may be better to just change the JQL for the lookup action to avoid this complexity. 

Finally, please note: once inside of a {{lookupIssues}} iterator, the issue prefix is not used, just the field smart values.

Kind regards,
Bill

[Tuncay Senturk _Snapbytes_]

Hi @Troy Anderson 

{{^last}} is evaluated against the original loop, not your filtered output.
Because you’re skipping items inside the loop with #if(...), the item you print last usually isn’t the actual last element of the collection. so {{^last}} is still true and you get a trailing comma.

Fix it by making the loop only contain the items you’ll print, then last will work

I am not sure if this will work but you can try something similar below

{{#issue.issuelinks.whereEquals("type.inward","is cloned by")
.whereStartsWith("issue.key","SCR")}}
{{issue.key}} - {{issue.status.name}}{{^last}}, {{/last}}
{{/issue.issuelinks.whereEquals("type.inward","is cloned by")
.whereStartsWith("issue.key","SCR")}}