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TimT
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3 years ago

Formula for a field to label which order it is in

Hello, I have two tables, Parent table Task and child table Steps. Each Task has an initial step assigned to it via pipelines and when the user selects an option in the Step form, another pipeline ...
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MarkShnier__You
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Since you seem to be comfortable with pipelines, probably the easiest way is to make a summary field on the parent table to count the number of children and look that up down to children as [Current Step Count].

Then when a Step is created have the pipeline copy the value of the [Current Step Count (lookup)] into a scalar data entry field called [Step number].

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Mark Shnier (YQC)
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TimT's avatar
TimT
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3 years ago
Thanks for the response, Mark. This is definitely something i'm starting to move towards! However, you don't happen to have an idea on how to label the Steps that have already been done, eh?
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    MarkShnier__You
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    3 years ago
    Maybe some export to excel and crazy manipulation and reimport that field?  There is no easy way.

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    MichaelTamoush
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    3 years ago
    Is there always a max of 3 steps, or did you just use that for an example and there can be any number of steps? What is the max number you currently have?

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    Michael Tamoush
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      TimT
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      3 years ago
      unfortunately, there can be any number of steps!