Concatenate 2 fields together to use as a title
Intermediate
Forms
Lisa Sawyer (User Experience Manager)


Write a formula to put to fields together as a label for form titles or other labels.
1. In the table in which you'd like to concatenate 2 fields, add a new "formula - text" field

2. Copy and paste the formula on the right into the new fields formula box. 
** Change the field names to the names of the fields you'd like to refer to in your table
** If the field is already a text field, you do not need to include the "ToText()" function

3. On the Table settings -> Advanced settings 
Set the Record title to use the "formula-text" field you just created
UserToName([Employee]) & ": " & ToText([Date]) & " " & ToText([Start time])& "- " & ToText([End time])


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Created on April 18, 2021 at  8:11 PM (EDT). Owned by Sawyer, Lisa (deactivated).
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When you bring additional fields into a conversion, Quickbase often finds inconsistencies. For example, say you're converting your Companies column into its own table. One company, Acme Corporation, has offices in New York, Dallas and Portland. So, when you add the City column to the conversion, Quickbase finds three different locations for Acme. A single value in the column you're converting can only match one value in any additional field. Quickbase needs you to clean up the extra cities before it can create your new table. To do so, you have one of two choices:

  • If you want to create three separate Acme records (Acme-New York, Acme-Dallas and Acme-Portland) click the Conform link at the top of the column.
  • If the dissimilar entries are mistakes (say Acme only has one office in New York and the other locations are data-entry errors) go back into your table and correct the inconsistencies—in this case, changing all locations to New York. Then try the conversion again.

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