Why does the journal field table saves intercepted text value?

[adolfo8911]

Hi everyone, 

I'm currently working on a Before business rule (insert and update) that intercept values on the Comment and Work_notes fields. It compares them to a regex for NPPI and if it finds a match it will replace that matched value with ****. Currently Im finding that when there is a match the BR does mask the value and replaces it with *** as expected but the activity is also showing the original value (I'm getting two entries). 

I checked the sys_journal_field table and it only shows the record with the ****. Has anyone had a similar request where they needed to mask NPPI on entered comments and work_notes, if so how did you do it?

[Ankur Bawiskar]

@adolfo8911 

you should have before insert BR on sys_journal_field rather than your table

This will ensure the data gets masked during Insert only and not during the update

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[adolfo8911]

I'm targeting the sys_journal_field, which is the table where the entered values get saved. Please take a look at what I currently have in the BR in the screenshot. With this simple BR, both the original value and the "replace value" will be shown in the activity section of the task.