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HeatherBryant2
Qrew Assistant Captain
5 years ago

Combine Formula List-User with List-User field

Can we combine a Formula - List-User field with a List-User field? I'd like to use the field as the 'Notify Whom' value in notifications and avoid creating a set of notifications for each field. Th...
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HeatherBryant2
Qrew Assistant Captain
5 years ago
Thanks, Mark! That worked. I had tried ToUserList([user1], [user2], [user3], [userlist]) and got an error that userlist was expected to be a user. When I combined [user1], [user2], [user3] into a user list, the formula you provided worked.

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MarkShnier__You
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5 years ago
Right,
the ToUserList function will combine either a set of User field types or a set of User List field types but you can't mix them in the same function..

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  • MattStephens's avatar
    MattStephens
    Qrew Cadet
    7 months ago

    You can however just have a touserlist function inside a touserlist function to combine single users and user lists:

    ToUserList(
        ToUserList( [Project controller username], [Project - APM Username], [Record Owner]), //individual users
        [Asset Engineering Delegates] //lists of users
    )