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- From: cicone@uieea.ece.uiuc.edu
- Subject: working with FMP blank fields
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- Organization: University of Illinois
- Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 22:25:43 GMT
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- Hello,
- Has anyone out there come up with a work around for FileMakerPro (1.0v2) that
- would allow the use of the 'If' function in a calculation field that references
- a date field that does not yet contain a value? The actual calculation I would
- have liked to use:
-
- If (Length (paper accepted) >0 ,"Accepted",If (Length (paper rejected) >0 ,
- "Rejected" , "In Progress"))
-
- where 'paper accepted' and 'paper rejected' are both date fields. As the FMP
- manual states if a field doesn't contain a value the 'If' function is skipped
- altogether and returns an empty result. If either of the date fields has a
- value entered into it the calculation works fine; if both fields are blank I
- get no result.
- I attempted a few ways around this but it seems that none of the functions
- available in a calculation field will work with a blank field....
- Thanks in advance...
- --Bob--
- **********************
- Bob Cicone (cicone@uieea.ece.uiuc.edu)
- Sys Admin
- Bioacoustics Research Lab
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
-