String

Remove

Removes the argument in a given string.

{{ "BE0.524.802.662" | remove:"BE" }}

Replace

Replaces the argument_1 by argument_2 in the given string.

{{ "Comm.VA" | replace:".","" }}

Upcase

Turns all letters of the string in capital letters

{{ "Silverfin" | upcase }}

Downcase

Puts all letters of the string in small letters.

{{ "Silverfin" | downcase }}

Capitalize

Turns the first letter of the string into a capital letter.

{{ "silverfin" | capitalize }}

Append

Attaches the argument string after the given string.

{{ "Tim Vandecasteele" | append:” with a representative” }}

Prepend

Attaches the argument string before the given string.

{{ "9050 Ledeberg" | prepend:"B - " }}

Size

Returns the numbers of characters in a string.

{{ "BE0.524.802.662" | size }}

Strip

Removes all whitespaces before and after a given string (it doesn't remove spaces between words).

{{ "   BE0.524.802.662   " | strip }}

Default

This allows to set a default value when a variable or [linkto database variable]database variable[endlinkto] is nil, false or empty

📘

{% assign company_form = company.company_form | default:”NV” %}
Let's say that the database variable company.company_form has not been inputted any value in the company settings

{{ company_form | default:"NV" }}

Minus

Using a minus will remove initial zeros.

Without minus:

{{ "01/01/2018" | date:"%d %B %Y" }}

With minus:

{{ "01/01/2018" | date:"%-d %B %Y" }}

Today

To the date of today, you can do the following:

{{ "now" | date:"%d/%m/%Y" }}

Localized Date

If you need to display a date according to the time-zone from where template is being executed, you can used the "localized_date" filter.

🚧

This date will be only shown in the user's browser, but won't be exported to the PDF file.

{{ "now" | localized_date:"%d/%m/%Y %H:%M" }}

Slice

Gives a substring of a given string, beginning from a certain index that can be given as well the length of the substring.

{{ "BE0.524.802.662" | slice:4, 11 }}

Newline_to_br / multiline_table

These filters replace every newline character ("\n") in a string with an HTML line break tag ("
"). This ensures that text is displayed on new lines as intended.

{% capture welcome_string %}
Hello,
World!
{% endcapture %}

With filter:
{{ welcome_string | newline_to_br }}
Or:
{{ welcome_string | multiline_table }}


Without filter:
{{ welcome_string }}

String_value

Values are stored as string, but whenever a variable or drop is called, Silverfin will try to infer it's type (string, number, etc). In some situation we could prefer to avoid this and render the value always as a string.

{% input custom.some.field %}

Value: {{ custom.some.field }}
String value: {{ custom.some.field.string_value }}

Output

Url_encode

Replaces any URL-unsafe character with three characters: a percent sign and the corresponding Hex value of the character replaced.

{{ "[email protected]" | url_encode }}

Url_decode

Decodes a string that has been encoded by url_encode. It will replaces the Hex values with URL-unsafe characters.

Strip_html

Removes any HTML tags from a string.

{% capture formatted_text %}This is a <i>text</i>.<br>There is some <strong>HTML</strong>.<br>Which we want to <sup>remove</sup>{% endcapture %}

Without filter:
{{ formatted_text }}

With filter:
{{ formatted_text | strip_html }}

MD5

Converts a string into an MD5 hash so developers are able to produce hashes of values. Can be used to protect sensitive information. MD5 is one of the most widely used hashing algorithms.

{% assign person_national_number = "920711-216-81" %}
{{ person_national_number | md5 }}

---

{% assign person_national_number = person_national_number | md5 %}
{% input custom.[person_national_number].name %}

Output

Transliterate

Transliterates strings based on the Unicoder library. This library converts Unicode [and accented ASCII] characters to their plain-text ASCII equivalents. The filter is particularly useful to transliterate special characters like é, è, ä, etc.

{% input custom.person.full_name %}

{{ custom.person.full_name | transliterate }}

Output