https://sugarclub.sugarcrm.com/dev-club/f/questions-answers/3643/using-variablesI&#39;m trying to not use 16 nested ifElse statements I have created 8 fields all with the same name format $pX_haz_premium_c X being 1 to 8. Each performs a similar calculation based on which p number has been selected from a drop down list. I need to showen-USTelligent Community 12https://sugarclub.sugarcrm.com/thread/18310?ContentTypeID=1Tue, 14 Jul 2020 16:06:08 GMT5c521d64-519d-47a6-9065-134618b211bf:6763407e-dd81-412d-893c-a6d20e1617f3Patrick McQueen<p>Hi <a href="https://sugarclub.sugarcrm.com/members/howard">Howard Jennings</a>,</p><p>concat() outputs a string. So, if its output is $<span style="color:#000000;background-color:#ffffff;">p3</span><span style="color:#000000;background-color:#ffffff;border:0px;">_haz_premium_c, it&#39;s not going to treat $<span style="color:#000000;background-color:#ffffff;">p3</span><span style="color:#000000;background-color:#ffffff;border:0px;">_haz_premium_c as a variable and calculate it. It&#39;s going to treat it as the string, &quot;$<span style="color:#000000;background-color:#ffffff;">p3</span><span style="color:#000000;background-color:#ffffff;border:0px;">_haz_premium_c&quot; and put that in the field.</span></span></span></p><p>Is this question related to&nbsp;what you were asking about <a href="https://sugarclub.sugarcrm.com/dev-club/f/questions-answers/3632/why-does-this-cause-my-instance-of-sugar-to-crash">here</a>?</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>https://sugarclub.sugarcrm.com/thread/18309?ContentTypeID=1Tue, 14 Jul 2020 13:16:26 GMT5c521d64-519d-47a6-9065-134618b211bf:0bb9303f-f3dc-4d80-9ff2-896974afeb7cAndr&#233; Lopes<p>We may need more details, perhaps screen shots of current layout and functions behind the fields.</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>