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Universal @Formula for converting list synonyms


John Humphreys
02.06.2007
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Have you ever needed to use a list description and its synonym in different views?

This Formula script allows you to set a field with the description value of a list for later use.

The Formula code relies on the presence of the following conditions:

Once you've arranged the above parameters, use the Formula in the computed field to get the original list and find the synonym value, or return the description. Alternatively, you can use an input translation to set the 'text' field.

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When working with lists, you can also use @Transform instead of @For. In this case, you do not need to count the elements and use an index variable. The code for the same solution wit


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h @Transform would be something like this:

Alternatively, we can return with @Implode(_resultlist)
—Gabor B.

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