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KrissyKrissy's avatar
KrissyKrissy
Qrew Cadet
8 years ago

Remove duplicates from Concatenated Child to Parent Field - Involves Javascript

I have a field that is using Dan Diebolt's IOL technique that is Concatenating child fields to the parent record into one combined field.  I would like for this field to remove all duplicates and blan...
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ChuckGrigsby's avatar
ChuckGrigsby
Qrew Cadet
8 years ago
I see underscore in there so you can use that by using this. Just pass your array of words through this before sending to the concat field. I haven't used underscore a lot so Dan may chime in with a way better answer as always :P
http://underscorejs.org/#uniq

_.uniq(data);


Another examle
_.uniq([1, 2, 1, 4, 1, 3]); 
=> [1, 2, 4, 3]
For sorting you can then pass it through something like this _.iteratee(value, [context]) 
KrissyKrissy's avatar
KrissyKrissy
Qrew Cadet
8 years ago
I basically copied the formula i'm using exactly as is.  Is it possible you could tell me exactly where exactly this new addition might go within my formula?  Sorry for being such a novice. :)