ListFound_Conditionnal ( Field ; start ; filterField ; filterItem )

List of values of one Field of a table under condition of the value (filterItem) of a second field (filterField) of the same table

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Frederic Bruckert - Show more from this author

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This function is useful to summarize fields of a table without table occurency.

it's easy to load the result in a global variable to use it in the solution.

Comments

		Bruce Robertson Feb 6, 2011
The function can be simplified as shown below. Oddly, I find the empty string before the second getNth is required to ensure the calc operates properly. Case( start <= Get(FoundCount) ; Let([ thisvalue = Case( GetNthRecord ( filterField; start ) = filterItem ; "" & GetNthRecord ( field ; start ) ); next = ListFound_Conditional ( Field ; start + 1; filterField; filterItem ) ]; List( next; thisValue ) ) )

		Bruce Robertson Feb 6, 2011
Oops, that should be list( thisValue; next)

		Frederic Bruckert Feb 6, 2011
Hi Bruce. Thanks for your comment.That's another approach, more simple and clear. I did not think to simplify, because my CF was working. Best regards.

		Andrew Yates, London, UK Feb 18, 2016
I seem to be having really mixed results with this. It's exactly what I've been looking for, but I'm getting this to list a related field. The results show as expected. But it seems that if I narrow down the search (of the parent table where the list field is), it shows up blank. Any thoughts?

		arthur Nov 11, 2019
I experience the same thing as Andrew. The full list is generated when the parent file is showing all clips, but when narrowing down information gets lost. Very difficult for me to troubleshoot this one.

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