Text Formatter
Text Formatter gets a text ready for the next step of the flow. It can convert it to upper or lower case, remove accents, strip extra spaces at the start and end, swap spaces for another character and replace some characters with others. That way texts always arrive in the same format, even when different people wrote them.
When to use it
- Standardize customer or city names before comparing or searching for them.
- Create file names or identifiers without accents or spaces, for example
report-march-2026. - Normalize an answer before using it in a Switch, so that “Paid” and “paid” are treated the same.
- Remove or change characters that another system does not accept.
Configuration
| Field | What it does |
|---|---|
| Message | The text you want to transform. Connect it to a component that delivers a message. |
| Case Conversion | Changes capitalization: None (no change, default), lowercase (all lower case), UPPERCASE (all upper case) or Capitalize (first letter of each word in upper case). |
| Remove Accents | Removes accents and marks from letters, for example é becomes e, ñ becomes n and ü becomes u. On by default. |
| Replace Spaces | When on, Replace Spaces With appears so you can replace every space. Off by default. |
| Replace Spaces With | The character that replaces each space. Default: -. |
| Replace Characters | When on, the fields to define your own replacements appear. Off by default. |
| Number of Replacements | How many replacements you want to define, from 1 to 5. Default: 1. |
| Find / Replace with | Each pair says what to look for and what to change it to. Leave Replace with empty to delete what you are looking for. |
Advanced options
| Field | What it does |
|---|---|
| Trim Whitespace | Removes spaces at the start and end of the text. On by default. |
The transformations are applied in this order: spaces at the start and end, accents, capitalization, spaces and, finally, your replacements.
Output
- Formatted Message: the transformed text, as a message. You can connect it to any component that accepts text.
Example
You want to save each report with a clean file name based on its title, for example “Sales March – South Region”. You connect the title to Text Formatter with Case Conversion set to lowercase, Remove Accents on and Replace Spaces on with -. You also turn on Replace Characters to delete the – character. The result works directly as a file name.