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joevandervest
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11 months ago

New Forms - Rules Test for NULL or 'unset' DATEs

Forgive me if I missed something about this elsewhere, but for the life of me, i'm manually converting some forms and running into the issue with form/dynamic rules - the BLANK tests that used to work on old forms don't seem to be working in new forms. 

Now I have a work around to create a "dummy_null_field" for data types i need to test, using the null field in a "value in field" test, but that seems a bit over the top. 

Is there some way to test fields for NULL that works in New Forms rules creation?  



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  • joevandervest's avatar
    joevandervest
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    11 months ago

    I figured this out. 

    For those that might be confused: 

    Use the FORMULA BUILDER in the create/edit rules interface to create a simple test that should produce a boolean output.   e.g IsNull([something])=TRUE or Nz([something])=TRUE depending on datatype

    Then if the bool is TRUE the action you identify in the action section will happen. 




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    • JoelHickok's avatar
      JoelHickok
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      11 months ago

      While I also search out work arounds like you have done here, I still feel like this is an issue.  We should not be forced to create new fields and workarounds to do something basic that the form should be capable of doing on its own.  Especially since the old forms allowed this more easily.  

      Let's take steps forward not backwards!