How to create advance reference qualifier with if and else conditions

[rahul16]

I am using a variable set and I am filtering conditions like

Application<category<sub-category

if there is no application then category<sub-category

javascript&colon; 'u_type=category^u_inactive=false^u_catalog_item='+(current.cat_item.sys_id||current.request_item.cat_item.sys_id)+'^u_application='+current.variables.application;

This will work only if user select application

How can I use it if the application is empty set the application as empty?

if(current.variables.application){
return current.variables.application;
}else{
return '';
}

I created like this 

javascript&colon;if (current.variables.application != "") 'u_type=category^u_inactive=false^u_catalog_item='+(current.cat_item.sys_id||current.request_item.cat_item.sys_id)+'^u_application='+current.variables.application;else 'u_type=category^u_inactive=false^u_catalog_item='+(current.cat_item.sys_id||current.request_item.cat_item.sys_id);

but else part not working

[rahul16]

else part not working.

If no application  category is not populating

[Ankur Bawiskar]

@rahul16 

are you having any category records satisfying the query in else

then only it will work

[rahul16]

yes we have but still not showing values 

[rahul16]

javascript&colon; var query; if (!current.variables.application) query = 'u_type=category^u_inactive=false^u_catalog_item='+(current.cat_item.sys_id||current.request_item.cat_item.sys_id); else query = 'u_type=category^u_inactive=false^u_catalog_item='+(current.cat_item.sys_id||current.request_item.cat_item.sys_id)+'^u_application='+current.variables.application; query; 

working fine

[Ankur Bawiskar]

@rahul16 

it's similar to what I suggested above you just swapped the query based on if condition

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