I would like to create a workflow to concatenate 3 diferent fields, the first and second ones are list/record's type, and the third and last one is a text field. The problem is that the first and second fields are not recognized at the formula and must be converted, and the formula doesn't work. Does anybody could help me with the correct formula to convert the first and second fields and concatenate all fields?
Note: I'm using the simple formula: concat(field1,field2,field3) and it's not working.
In NetSuite you use || to concatenate fields.
Here are two examples:
Code: {firstname}||{custentity2}||{datecreated}
Result:
Code 'Name:'||{firstname}||' Gender:'||{custentity2}||' Created:'||{datecreated}
Result:
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I have a list of codes for each state as an input stored in a table.
What I want as output is this , using tmap transformations
This is the job I made but it doesn't seem to work correctly like I want. The output should have 1000 rows.
Does anybody know how to solve this?
One way to do this is to convert your list to a string of comma-separated values (using tConvertType for instance) and then use tNormalize to split this string into individual rows.
Link to example file:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1dCQSHWjndejkyyw-chJkBjfHgzEGYoRdXmPTNKu7ykg/edit?usp=sharing
The tab "Source data" contains the data to be used in the query on the tab "Query output". The tab "Desired result" shows what I would like the end result to look like.
The goal I'm trying to achieve is to have the formula in cell A2 on the tab "Query output" to populate the data in all four of the columns, so that it looks exactly like the "Desired result" tab. I know I can get the same result simply by entering additional formulas in C2 and D2, but this is not the objective, I need the results to come specifically from the single formula in A2.
The information in the "Additional data 1" column should simply repeat the word "Test" for every row that contains data in the first two columns. The information in the "Additional data 2" column should simply repeat the data from cell 'Source data'!A1 for every row that contains data in the first two columns.
Please feel free to edit the example file as it only contains dummy data. If you like, you can copy the tab "Query output" to create your own working formula for illustrative purposes.
EDIT:
I'm thinking along the lines of creating an array that consists of the required data for the columns "Additional data 1" and "Additional data 2" and then combining that array with the array of the query result which provides the first two columns. I've been experimenting with this in various ways, but so far the only result I have achieved is an error on the first cell of the query results. I also have no idea yet how I could make sure that the second array contains an equal amount of rows to the query result.
You can add static data into query:
=QUERY('Source data'!A3:B,"SELECT A,B, 'Test', '" & 'Source data'!A1 &"' WHERE A IS NOT NULL LABEL A '', B '', 'Test' '', '" & 'Source data'!A1 &"' ''")
Many thanks to #basic for the provided assistance! The insights were a great help to solving my issue. That said, I have muddled along a bit, and I've come up with a slightly different solution which I find better suited as it gives true blank values instead of a column filled with spaces.
First of all, instead of querying directly on the source data, I built an array and queried on that. I used the two existing columns (A and B) from the source data and added a third column to the array which does not exist in the source data. In order to make sure that the third column would consist of blank values, I used the IFERROR formula.
=IFERROR(0/0)
The formula above returns a blank because dividing by zero forces an error and the IFERROR method returns a blank unless an alternative return value is specified.
In order to be able to use this formula in an array however, it had to be tweaked slightly, because as it is it would only return a single blank cell value instead of a column of blank values. To do this, I used an already existing column from the source data, and then encapsulated it in an ARRAYFORMULA.
=ARRAYFORMULA(IFERROR('Source data'!A3:A/0))
Using this, the resulting array has the following formula.
=ARRAYFORMULA({'Source data'!A3:A,'Source data'!B3:B,IFERROR('Source data'!A3:A/0)})
This creates an array consisting of the two original columns A and B from the source data, plus an additional third column filled with blank values. This array can now be queried upon, and using the tricks previously provided by #basic the desired result as specified in the original question can be achieved.
Due to the query now being used upon a user-defined array, the columns in the SELECT statement now have to be referred to as Col1, Col2, Col3, instead of A, B, C. The final formula now looks like this.
=QUERY(ARRAYFORMULA({'Source data'!A3:A,'Source data'!B3:B,IFERROR('Source data'!A3:A/0)}),"SELECT Col1,Col2,'Test',Col3,'"&'Source data'!A1&"' WHERE Col1 IS NOT NULL LABEL 'Test' '','"&'Source data'!A1&"' ''")
I hope this information may prove of use to someone else as well.
My Google Sheet that will be updated over time with new sheets. On my dashboard/master sheet, I can write a simple INDIRECT that will pull information from a cell in the sheets. However, the formula does not replicate its way down the column. I understand that I need to use an ARRAYFORMULA to get the auto formula placement done.
I've tried many ways but the one that I think may get me there is to use CONCAT. My columns look like this:
Event Title [uses a script to pull in the names of all the sheets]
Use an array to get the titles so they pre-poluate down the column so I can use it later: =ARRAYFORMULA(IF(Row(A:A)=1,"Get Title from A",IF(ISBLANK(A:A),"",A:A)))
-- The Event Title is now appearing as plain text in Column B.
I then use CONCAT to write the part of the formula I need to help get the name of the INDIRECT in without using the INDIRECT formula.
=CONCAT("'"&B5&"'"&CHAR(38)&"!"&"""","B2"&"""")
-- This gets me this result: 'Computers 101'&"B2"
At this point, my hope is that I could then use this information ('Computers 101'&"B2") into an ARRAYFORMULA. I used this formula to try and do that:
={"Event Date";ARRAYFORMULA(A6:A+D6:D&"Cat")}
-- I get the answer: 0
The expected value was the date cell (B2) in the Computers 101 sheet. Any ideas how to proceed? I don't know the names of the sheets in advance.
unfortunately, this is not possible within of scope of google sheets formula. if you need ranges from other than the actual sheet you need to use INDIRECT which is not supported under ARRAYFORMULA.
you have 3 options:
hardcode it like: https://stackoverflow.com/a/68446758/5632629 with IFERROR & array of empty cells to match columns of your range
generate formula which will generate your final formula/range as a text string and then use a simple script to convert that string into the valid formula: https://stackoverflow.com/a/61819704/5632629
do it all with scripts
I have a table of data like so.
Comment 1
Comment 2
Comment 3
This is a text comment
null
null
null
this text comment has a number 2
null
null
null
this is comment 3
I want to create a calculated field such that I have a column that aggregates all the data into one like so.
Combined Comment
This is a text comment
this text comment has a number 2
this is comment 3
I did read through GDS help documents about CONCAT and I found that the null values make it so CONCAT comes out null.
I had slightly better luck with a CASE statement when combining two of the columns but not all three.
I also tried to combine the two columns then used that combined column into another calculated field without luck.
All fields are set to text, many have a mix of alpha and numeric characters but should be treated as text. None are only numbers.
Any help is appreciated.
Create a new calculated field, with a nested function? The below worked on your example:
REPLACE(CONCAT(CONCAT(Comment1,Comment2),Comment3),'null','')
I have a transformation as
where the text file is in the following format:
For each of the t_cmp(the number of t_cmp is not known prior) in the text file, I want to execute Read Company
But it is giving error as
Can anyone please tell me where am I going wrong?
You need to pass 3 rows, each with 1 field, instead of a single row with 3 fields.
The number of fields must match the number of parameters of your query.
So, in short, transpose your data. Either:
read line as a single field then use Split field to rows
or read as now and use Row normalizer
Both approaches should work.