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Data manipulation is a very important tool when dealing with your data and how you want to see it.  In some cases going beyond the normal calculations can help you gather important data that you actually want to see.  With Popdock’s calculated field you can do more than just add the values of two columns, here’s a few examples of what you can do:

 

Formatting a date field:

 

({Created date}).ToString(“x”)

 

This will convert a date field to a string in the specified format x.  Here is a list of some of the formats available.  Use one of the following letters in quotes to replace the x to see the format displayed:

d: 6/15/2008

D: Sunday, June 15, 2008

f: Sunday, June 15, 2008 9:15 PM

F: Sunday, June 15, 2008 9:15:07 PM

g: 6/15/2008 9:15 PM

G: 6/15/2008 9:15:07 PM

m: June 15

o: 2008-06-15T21:15:07.0000000

R: Sun, 15 Jun 2008 21:15:07 GMT

s: 2008-06-15T21:15:07

t: 9:15 PM

T: 9:15:07 PM

u: 2008-06-15 21:15:07Z

U: Monday, June 16, 2008 4:15:07 AM

y: June, 2008

   

You can also customize how you want to display your date string.

 

Example:  ({Created date}).ToString(“yyyy-MM-dd”)

Calculated Field Type:  String

 

 

 

Find the number of days a date is from the current date:

 

(DateTime.Now – {Created date}).TotalDays

 

Since this uses DateTime.Now, it will always update to the present date minus the Created date and give you the number of days.

 

Example:  (05-25-2019 – 05-15-2019) = 10

 

 

 

Returning a portion of a text string:

 

{Item description}.Contains(“-“) ? {Item description}.Substring(0,{Item description}.IndexOf(“-“) – 1) : {Item description}

 

This will look at a string of text, determine where in that text a dash is and then return to you the text from the beginning of that string to the character right before the dash.

 

Example:  “Popdock – Smartconnect” returns just “Popdock”

 

 

 

If-Then-Else formulas:

 

{Field1} == “Return” ? {Field2} * -1 : {Field2}

 

This is a more complicated calculation where it uses an if-else statement to accomplish a calculation. The way the formula is constructed is comparing a field and whether the compare is true or false to complete a specific calculation. In the above example if {Field1} is equal to “Return” then take {Field2} and multiply it by a -1 and that will be the data it shows for the calculated field. Now if {Field1} does not equal “Return” it performs the calculation that is after the colon which in the above example is to just keep the same value as {Field2}.

 

Example: {SOP type} == “Return” ? {Extended price} * -1 : {Extended price}

Calculated Field Type: Will vary depending on the fields in the calculation.

 
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