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JohannaEvans
Qrew Trainee
7 years ago

Formula to Summarize Multi Select Text by Group rather than Groupings

Hi QuickBase Friends, I have a multi select text field that I need to summarize by group rather than by grouping. I started the formula with the following: (I am getting a message expecting a ...
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JohannaEvans
Qrew Trainee
7 years ago

I have a list of multi text selections that have about 25 items.

When I summarize the fields, a table displays the selections by grouping:

Item 1      = 1
Item 1, 5  = 1
Item 1, 3  = 1

This is not what I am looking for, therefore, I thought I could write a formula that recognized the group rather than the grouping.

Item 1 = 3
Item 3 = 1
Item 5 = 1

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QuickBaseCoachD
Qrew Captain
7 years ago
I realized that this is simpler than i thought

Try this

var text Selections = ToText([My Multi select field]);
var text SearchTerm = "PC 1.0 Readmission rate";

IF(Contains($Selections, $SearchTerm),1,0)

Then if that works OK, just copy the field 24 times and replace the formula variable for the SearchTerm.