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ChrisNewsome
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7 years ago

Trying to connect tables to consolidate info on a report

OK so I have multiple tables... we call jobs "Opportunities" - these require a "Layout" and sometimes they result in a "Loose End". So each "Opportunity" can have multiple "Layouts" and "Loose Ends"

Opportunities < Layouts
Opportunities < Loose Ends

There is currently no relationship between "Layouts" and "Loose Ends".

What I'm trying to achieve is to be able to build a report that will show me, per opportunity, who did the layout (that's a field that's selected on each record) and how many loose end records there are. (who made the most mistakes)

I can get the # of Loose end records, but I can't seem to pull up that field for who did the layout. It should all be associated to the parent "opportunity" record. I've toyed with creating a relationship between Layouts and Loose Ends, but I can't seem to get them to connect properly, i.e., that the opportunity is the common record between them. Maybe I'm going about it incorrectly. Any input out there?
  • If you are trying to float a text field up from the Child layout to the Parent Opportunity, then you can use a combined text summary field.
  • Are you asking how to float up Unique occurrences of text data from children up to a Parent?  Just try it.  There is a new field type called Combined Text Summary field
  • Ok cool, I hadn't seen that field so I was curious. I'll give it a shot.
  • If that works but you do not like the bubble appearance, then there are a variety of formulas to turn that field into text and use any character is a separator.  For example, this one will turn it into a vertical list.



    var text CombinedText = ToText([My Text Concatenation Field]);

    var text RemoveSpaceAfterSemiColon = 
    SearchAndReplace($CombinedText, "; ",";");

    // substitute new line for semicolon
    SearchAndReplace($RemoveSpaceAfterSemiColon,";","\n")
    • ChrisNewsome's avatar
      ChrisNewsome
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      Would the bubble affect how it shows up in reports? I want to group by this field on a report.
  • OK so I cannot see any field type labeled "combined text summary"... ?