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jacqu3sy
Path Finder

struggling with the following IF statement....

I have a table, and want to create a new field called 'finalclosedtime' which will be populated either by an existing field called 'closedtime' or a string IF one of the other fields contains a value of "New".

I tried this but no joy:

| eval finalclosedtime=if((status_label="New",stringtopopulate)closedtime)

Any ideas? Thanks.

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dineshraj9
Builder

You can form the field this way -

| eval finalclosedtime=if(like(status_label,"%New%"),stringtopopulate,closedtime)

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paulbannister
Communicator

Hi There, try it simply as:

| eval finalclosedtime=if(status_label="New", stringtopopulate, closedtime)

jacqu3sy
Path Finder

Also worked, thanks!

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dineshraj9
Builder

You can form the field this way -

| eval finalclosedtime=if(like(status_label,"%New%"),stringtopopulate,closedtime)

jacqu3sy
Path Finder

Thats so simple, took me ages trying to get that working! many thanks!

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DalJeanis
Legend

Great! Please accept the answer that solved the problem, and upvote any other answers that you found particularly helpful.

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dineshraj9
Builder

no problem 🙂

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