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ilyailya
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7 years ago

how to get information from the dependent table into general table, similar Excel Vlookup

Hello, I have 2 tables in my App, 1st is the general one, which should contain all statuses from the second table. In both that tables I have equal ID numbers as a key.  How I can connected t...
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JohnRogers3
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Instead of changing it by automation, why not change the field in one of the tables to a lookup field to match the status of the other. So at all times the statuses will match? Would this not fix your problem?
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JohnRogers3
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7 years ago
Sorry for late response, when making a field the very last field type should be a lookup field. 

Careful changing field types because it will delete all stored data connected to the previous field data type. I would recommend creating an entirely new field just for testing, make it a lookup field.

Another way to do this,

Table 1: Field 1 = testField   //this is a text field
Table 2: Field 2 = testField2 //this is the lookup field which is a formula text

now in the formula text you just put in [testField]

this will import whatever is in testField and display it in testField2