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SOLVED - Calculated Field - Value from 2 Fields wether which one is filled

Lennart Gebauer

Hi,

so far i have a calculated field that takes a value from one field and uses it.

Formular:

subStr($stage_customer_postalcode_c,0,5)

But i'd like to adjust the field that it's possible to take the information needed from 2 fields.

And it depends on which field is filled with a value to take that value.

Usecase is:

We have Module A and Module B with records of Users.

In the Case Section we Link records from Module A or B, depending of the which kind of Users they are.

Within the Case Module we use the zipcode (at the moment just Module A) of the user for Reporting. So we see which ticket comes from which Region.

The Point is a calculated Field that will get it's value from either connected record form Module A or connected record from Module B.

I hope it's clear what i like to do

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    Hi Lennart Gebauer,

    I recently participated in this discussion that seems similar.

    The description is not clear as there are references to fields and related modules and some dependencies pertaining to those.

    Providing the database names and types of the fields, names of modules and relationships, all allow the community to better visualize the goal/use case for your inquiry and build/test something locally to ensure we're giving you an accurate and relevant response. I look forward to more details if the linked conversation does not address your need.

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    Hi Lennart Gebauer,

    I recently participated in this discussion that seems similar.

    The description is not clear as there are references to fields and related modules and some dependencies pertaining to those.

    Providing the database names and types of the fields, names of modules and relationships, all allow the community to better visualize the goal/use case for your inquiry and build/test something locally to ensure we're giving you an accurate and relevant response. I look forward to more details if the linked conversation does not address your need.

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  • 0 in reply to Patrick McQueen

    Hey Patrick,

    I talked to Lennart via PM and we found/tested a similiar formular like:

    ifElse(
        greaterThan(
            strlen(
                related($notes,"plz_notes_c")
                ),0),related($notes,"plz_notes_c"),ifElse(
        greaterThan(
            strlen(
                related($calls,"plz_calls_c")
                ),0),related($calls,"plz_calls_c"),""))

    On this you need to know that it is possible to attach more than one record to the 1:N relationship in one module but SugarCRM seems to take the value from the latest attached record which is fine in some scenarios. (have not checked if it is date created or date modified, to be tested later on)

    Additionally the value from those relation will be taken that matches the if clause first. So the sort order of modules in the formular may be important.

    last but not least the above formula allows to have the value not set on the related records.

    Once this is completely solved I think Lennart Gebauer will share the final solution with the community :-)

    Bests

    Björn

  • 0 in reply to Patrick McQueen

    So far Björn Canales Pfisterer helped to write the formula for the calculated field that get's it's information from either module A or B. 
    That works so far.

    At the moment there is a problem by getting the value from the module B.

    Probably the relationship between the modules cases/module B.

    By now it was an N:N relationship and it was connected via an "connection"- field.

    But after connecting the Case with the Module B record, it doesn't takes the value.

  • 0 in reply to Patrick McQueen

    Jep,

    it was a Problem with the Relationship.

    The Cases Module needs an - N:1 - to the Module B

    So,

    if you have a Cases Module and you want to get Values from a connected record wether Module A or Module B or Module C, depending on which one is connected to Module Cases you need a Relationship ->

    Cases  - N:1 -  Module A/B/C

    After This you can generate a calculated field in the Cases Module with the following formula.

    ifElse(
    greaterThan(
    strlen(
    related($Module A,"Value from Module A")
    ),0),related($Module A,"Value from Module A"),ifElse(
    greaterThan(
    strlen(
    related($Module B,"Value from Module B")
    ),0),related($Module B,"Value from Module B"),ifElse(
    greaterThan(
    strlen(
    related($Module C,"Value from Module C")
    ),0),related($Module C,"Value from Module C"),"")))

    The field will show the Value of the Module that is connected to the Module Cases.

    I used this for ZipCodes therefore the fields are formatted as "floating-point-number"

    Hope it helps.
    Cheers