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Question

I have a field defined in custom record as data type Rich Text. For most of the part the data coming to that field is Text like 445F1 or 445D9, but occasionally the data comes into it as 44500 and also as '450'.

I created a saved search to find all the values for the field which are not 5 digits in length to give me all erroneous values like '455E1 or '455E2' which are 6 and 7 digits respectively (including the single quotes).

The problem is when the length is still 5 digits and the records are erroneous like 44500 or '450'.

To fix this I tried to create another filter in saved search as

Formula(Numeric)
To_number(Trim Both "'" From {myfield}) is greater than or equal to 1

But I keep on getting error message saying there is a syntax problem in my filter:

Your formula has an error in it. It could resolve to the wrong datatype, use an unknown function, or have a syntax error. Please go back, correct the formula, and re-submit.

What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

Formula(Numeric) To_number(Trim Both "'" From {myfield}) is greater than or equal to 1

What am I doing wrong?

Remember : {myfield} is not a Table. So you just can't run a query with From clause here.

To get it work you should use something like this :

Formula(Numeric)
LENGTH(LTRIM(RTRIM({myfield}))) not equal to 5

But this formula will failed in case the string has any character formatting.(Won't work for rich formatted text).

I would recommend to try some other workaround in such scenario to get your job done. One possible solution would be to create a dynamic field and set a formula to calculate the length of the string.

 LENGTH(LTRIM(RTRIM({myfield})))

On the saved search you can directly search for the length and filter out erroneous data.

Answer 2

So I added couple of filters to achieve this.

Formula (Text)  SUBSTR({myfield}, -1, 1) starts with '

This tell me if the last character of my field is single quote

Formula (Text)  SUBSTR({myfield}, 1, 1) starts with '

This tells me if the first character of my field is single quote and

Formula (Numeric) TO_NUMBER({myfield})  is greater than 100

This tells me if for some reason the instead of text I have number in my field.

It is a workaround but does the trick