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UrsulaLlaveria's avatar
UrsulaLlaveria
Qrew Assistant Captain
5 years ago

Pull up previous field data

I know there is a way to do this, but I am completely blanking. How can I get the previous status of a field? For example, I have a Status field that has Active, Inactive, Deleted. I want to see what ...
Quickbase Automations
Tables and fields
MarkShnier__You's avatar
MarkShnier__You
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5 years ago
No, the "old." value only exists for a split second while a Notification or an Automation is firing.  After that it's gone.  In a Notification, you can use the Syntax 

[old.Status]

 to get at the previous status just long enough to fire off the Notification.

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