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Quote roxaneamanda Replybullet Topic: Null Data and Time field
     Posted: 14 Apr 2010 at 1:40am
Hi,
 
I have a list of dates and times;
Created Completion date
12/04/2010 13:10  
12/04/2010 13:12 12/04/2010 16:43
12/04/2010 13:16 13/04/2010 11:21
12/04/2010 13:19  
12/04/2010 13:32 12/04/2010 13:34
I want to add a format, display string to the completion date field which will display 'Open Incident' if the completion date isnull.
 
I tried the following within the format, display string but I get an error stating the second {table.datetimefield} 'a string is required here'
 
if isnull ({table.datetimefield}) then 'Open Incident' else {table.datetimefield}
 
HELP????
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Quote FrnhtGLI Replybullet Posted: 14 Apr 2010 at 2:08am
There's probably a better way to do it, but I've always layered up on fields to acheive something like this when necessary.
 
Behind the original field have a formula field that is:
 
if isnull({table.datetimefield}) then 'Open Incident'
     else ""
 
That should get you what you want.


Edited by FrnhtGLI - 14 Apr 2010 at 2:09am
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Quote roxaneamanda Replybullet Posted: 14 Apr 2010 at 2:16am
Thanks, that's good enough for me!!
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Quote DBlank Replybullet Posted: 14 Apr 2010 at 3:42am

For future reference you just need to make the fields the same data type:

 
if isnull ({table.datetimefield}) then 'Open Incident'
else totext({table.datetimefield})
 
You can also further define the way the string appears by adding that as a condition in the totext() conversion. As an example...
totext({table.datetime},'dd/MM/yy h:mm:ss tt')


Edited by DBlank - 14 Apr 2010 at 3:43am
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