The Combine Text summary field is great. But what I would like to do is determine the order -- Which I have achieved by creating a [Order] field within my child table....[Combine Text Field] = 1 Group A, 2 GroupD, 3 GroupH, 4 GroupY, 5 GroupU, 6 GroupK The new Ordered Combine Text Field is now ordered -- but I want to remove the numbers as well as ";" which is "hidden" in the combine text field.Example: when I create a rich text formula field -- and only insert the [Combine Text Field] -- the field is displayed -- [Rich Text Formula fieldA] = 1 Group A, ; 2 GroupD, ; 3 GroupH, ; 4 GroupY, ; 5 GroupU, ; 6 GroupK I would like for the field to display as = Group A, GroupD, GroupH, GroupY, GroupU, GroupKI was almost successful with the formula below -- but the formula would only display the first five Groups --- so if greater than 6 groups --- no luck -- also issue is I had "10" as a position...Almost worked formula below = Group A, GroupD, GroupH, GroupY, GroupU, List ("", Part(ToText([Combined Text]),1,"123456789;"),Part(ToText([Combined Text]),2,"123456789;"),Part(ToText([Combined Text]),3,"123456789;"),Part(ToText([Combined Text]),4,"123456789;"),Part(ToText([Combined Text]),5,"123456789;"),Part(ToText([Combined Text]),6,"123456789;"),Part(ToText([Combined Text]),7,"123456789;"),Part(ToText([Combined Text]),8,"123456789;"),Part(ToText([Combined Text]),9,"123456789;"),Part(ToText([Combined Text]),10,"123456789;"),Part(ToText([Combined Text]),11,"123456789;"))Any advice is greatly appreciated.

I believe what I did was to that code on the child table data as i needed the Combined text summary field to sort by [Record ID#] so the oldest ones would be first, but I did not want to show the date field.For example let's say that the child data had Student names who were wait listed for a class and I wanted to list them in the order they registered, which I deemed to be by [Record ID#] as opposed to alpha. So I created a field on the wait list child record like"<a href=" & PadLeft(ToText([Record ID#]),7,"0") & ">" & "</a>" & [Student name] Then do a combined text summary fieldThen on the parent record make a Formula Rich Text field which will convert the combined text field to text (which will end up being semi colon delimited), and substitute the semi colons with a html <br> character which will force a line break.var text ConvertedToText = ToText([my combined text summary field]);SearchAndReplace($ConvertedToText, " ; ", "<br>)Let me know if that works in your use case.------------------------------Mark Shnier (YQC)Quick Base Solution ProviderYour Quick Base Coachhttp://QuickBaseCoach.commarkshnier2@gmail.com------------------------------

Figured out a work around for anybody in the future: 1. Append a not commonly used character to the end of the field that you are going to create a combined text out of. I used "|". 2. Then use theList(", ",Trim(Part($value,1,"|")),Trim(Part($value,2,"|")),Trim(Part($value,3,"|")),Trim(Part($value,4,"|")), Etc Formula posted by Mark, but instead of using a semicolon, you're going to use the special character you appended to the field above. I did warn everybody on staff that that character will break up the text weird if used, and they said they never use it anyway. That's the best I could work out. ------------------------------Amanda Luna------------------------------

var text value = ToText([my combined text summary field]);List(", ", Trim(Part($value,1,";")), Trim(Part($value,2,";")), Trim(Part($value,3,";")), Trim(Part($value,4,";")), Trim(Part($value,5,";")), Trim(Part($value,6,";")), Trim(Part($value,7,";")), Trim(Part($value,8,";")), Trim(Part($value,9,";")), Trim(Part($value,10,";")), Trim(Part($value,11,";")), Trim(Part($value,12,";")), Trim(Part($value,13,";")), Trim(Part($value,14,";")), Trim(Part($value,15,";")), Trim(Part($value,16,";")), Trim(Part($value,17,";")), Trim(Part($value,18,";")), Trim(Part($value,19,";")), Trim(Part($value,20,";")), Trim(Part($value,21,";")), Trim(Part($value,22,";")), Trim(Part($value,23,";")), Trim(Part($value,24,";")), Trim(Part($value,25,";")) )

Mark,Your formula works great for removing the ";" --- any suggestions for removing the numbers -- 1 Group A, ; 2 GroupD, ; 3 GroupH, ; 4 GroupY, ; 5 GroupU, ; 6 GroupK I use the numbers to allow me to determine the order --- Thank you

List(", ",Trim(NotLeft(Part($value,1,";"),2)),Trim(NotLeft(Part($value,2,";")),2),etc

Combined Text Summary Field (Order and Clean)

QuickBaseCoachD
Qrew Captain
7 years ago
var text value = ToText([my combined text summary field]);

List(", ",
Trim(Part($value,1,";")),
Trim(Part($value,2,";")),
Trim(Part($value,3,";")),
Trim(Part($value,4,";")),
Trim(Part($value,5,";")),
Trim(Part($value,6,";")),
Trim(Part($value,7,";")),
Trim(Part($value,8,";")),
Trim(Part($value,9,";")),
Trim(Part($value,10,";")),
Trim(Part($value,11,";")),
Trim(Part($value,12,";")),
Trim(Part($value,13,";")),
Trim(Part($value,14,";")),
Trim(Part($value,15,";")),
Trim(Part($value,16,";")),
Trim(Part($value,17,";")),
Trim(Part($value,18,";")),
Trim(Part($value,19,";")),
Trim(Part($value,20,";")),
Trim(Part($value,21,";")),
Trim(Part($value,22,";")),
Trim(Part($value,23,";")),
Trim(Part($value,24,";")),
Trim(Part($value,25,";"))
)
BradElmore
Qrew Assistant Captain
7 years ago
Mark,

Your formula works great for removing the ";" --- any suggestions for removing the numbers --

1 Group A, ; 2 GroupD, ; 3 GroupH, ; 4 GroupY, ; 5 GroupU, ; 6 GroupK

I use the numbers to allow me to determine the order ---

Thank you
- AkashSingh
  Qrew Trainee
  6 years ago
  Hi I am running into a similar issues and need to figure out how Quickbase sorts the Multi-select Text (summary) field. I need a way to set the sorting order.
  
  Thank you
- QuickBaseCoachD
  Qrew Captain
  6 years ago
  I recently needed to have the Summary field sort by Record ID# which is not alpha. The raw summary field will sort alpha.
  
  I used a formula rich text field and prefaced each element with a fake href hyperlink. The hyperlink has a "URL" component, but no words to be displayed, so it ends up being invisible in a formula Rich Text field.
  
  "<a href=" & PadLeft(ToText([Record ID#]),7,"0") & ">" & "</a>"
  - SystemAdmin7
    Qrew Cadet
    6 years ago
    Mark,
    Would you be able to explain this again? I've been trying to figure out where you put this formula, and I'm not having any luck. Is it on the field before you create a combined text? or is it the field that you add to your report?
    
    Also, do you happen to have any ideas on how to get this thing to sort by date, from newest to oldest, where the number of texts fields you're combining will vary?
    
    I think if I created a field where it's yyyymmdd and then used your method above I'd get most of the way there. I just would then need to sort it new - old.
    
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    Amanda Luna
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- BabiPanjikar
  Qrew Assistant Captain
  6 years ago
  Is that that applying right(variable, 6) function mentioned above give you the desired outcome to remove the initial digits.
  
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  Babi Panjikar
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QuickBaseCoachD
Qrew Captain
7 years ago
List(", ",
Trim(NotLeft(Part($value,1,";"),2)),
Trim(NotLeft(Part($value,2,";")),2),

etc
BradElmore
Qrew Assistant Captain
7 years ago
Thank you Mark.....worked great!

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