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Quote motoxracer400f Replybullet Topic: Searching a Text Field for a Value
     Posted: 06 Mar 2008 at 6:49am
Hi again, I have a question regarding a formula that just doesn't want to work for me and you guys always find a solution to my problem!
 
I have a Text/Memo field called {RFQ.note_text}.  I want to be able to search the field in each record for the word "FOLLOWUPS" and if that record does NOT contain that string anywhere in it, I want to suppress the current record.  I am also suppressing duplicate "Quote Numbers" with the same code.
 
This is the formula I tried and it only suppresses the duplicate RFQ (Quote Numbers) and a few of the "FOLLOWUPS" fields, but most are still visible even though they don't contain "FOLLOWUPS".  I placed this code in the Details - Suppress box.  What am I doing wrong??  THX!!!
 
if previous ({RFQ.RFQ}) = {RFQ.RFQ} then true
else if Instr(1, {RFQ.Note_Text}, "FOLLOWUPS:", 1) = 0 then true
else false


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Quote motoxracer400f Replybullet Posted: 10 Mar 2008 at 7:48am
Is there maybe some sort of search command that I need to use?
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Quote hilfy Replybullet Posted: 10 Mar 2008 at 3:59pm

Try this:

{RFQ.RFQ} = previous({RFQ.RFQ}) or isNull({RFQ.Note_Text}) or (Instr({RFQ.Note_Text}, "FOLLOWUPS") = 0)

If the Note_Text field is never empty, you can take out the isNull piece.  If it can be empty, you need it because a blank string and a null value are not the same thing.
 
Note that I took out the whole "If" statement.  Each of the pieces of this statement (and of your if statement!) already evaluate to True or False, you don't need the "if".
 
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Quote motoxracer400f Replybullet Posted: 11 Mar 2008 at 6:14am
Smile Thank you, that works perfectly!!!!
 
One other minor thing that I noticed is that on the first record, it is still visible.  Is there a reason for this?
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Quote bucky7199 Replybullet Posted: 11 Mar 2008 at 7:15am
Dell, can I ask you for your programming expertise on my crosstab questions? They are under my user id bucky7199. Right now I can't get anyone to respond to me.
 
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Quote hilfy Replybullet Posted: 11 Mar 2008 at 8:12am
Dan,
 
Unfortunately I haven't worked with crosstab reports except in a Crystal class that I took about 10 years ago, so I'm afraid that I'm not going to be much help.
 
Sorry!
 
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Quote hilfy Replybullet Posted: 11 Mar 2008 at 8:15am

motoxracer,

Sorry 'bout that, it has to do with the order of things in the statement and the fact that there is no previous record.  Try this:

isNull({RFQ.Note_Text}) or (Instr({RFQ.Note_Text}, "FOLLOWUPS") = 0) or {RFQ.RFQ} = previous({RFQ.RFQ})

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Quote bucky7199 Replybullet Posted: 11 Mar 2008 at 9:52am
Ok, no problem.
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Quote motoxracer400f Replybullet Posted: 11 Mar 2008 at 9:58am

Work's excellent!!!!!  Thanks again for being such a big help!!!
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