Create functions for groovy scripts that are often used

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Create functions for groovy scripts that are often used #924

Open JohannaOtt opened 3 years ago

JohannaOtt commented 3 years ago

There are some groovy scripts that re-occur regularly and could therefore be turned into new hale studio functions.

create hashs from multiple input attributes
create GeographicalName instances from one input attribute with fixed values for language etc.
create date as TimePositionTime from date or text field
create text with date in specific format from date or text field
replace specific characters with others or none
extract sub strings from values

stempler commented 3 years ago

Do you see that in direction of https://github.com/halestudio/hale/issues/295, doing this based on custom functions?

extract sub strings from values

Are there cases where the regular expression extraction function cannot be used?

JohannaOtt commented 3 years ago

Do you see that in direction of #295, doing this based on custom functions?

I rather expected them to be new functions in the application just as Rename or Formatted String. So that users can use them with an interface/dialogue without having to use groovy scripts.

Are there cases where the regular expression extraction function cannot be used?

Creating hashs, geographical names and dates would not work with it AFAIK. Also, my experience is that many users have difficulties using the regular expression function, so if more explicit functions could be created for these cases, I think it would be helpful.

JohannaOtt commented 2 years ago

Think about turning all functions into ready-to-use-functions that are offered in the function packages of a Groovy Script function.

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