How to condition on a field being blank or empty

Created by Bob Swift (Bob Swift Atlassian Apps)
Last updated: Oct 26, 2013

Description

A common scenario is to do something if a field is not set or empty.

Steps

Add a condition with the following characteristics:

ValuePatternExactLiteralNegativeNotes
%variable%\S+either(error)(tick)
  • \S+ means to look for at least 1 (that is what + means) non-whitespace character
  • Use Negative to reverse the matching on a non-blank character