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I have several conditions set up, most of which work as expected, finding text or finding numbers as '1234.  There are a few that need to look for mixed letters and numbers like D-57 or 3-8 and they are getting missed.  Can someone help with the formatting to allow me to pick these up?

 

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    MF-12051538-0 Profile Picture
    406 on at

    Hi @mlauit ,

    The column that you are filtering with 'contains' is likely set up as a text column. If so, can you make sure that the search text is wrapped in single quotes?

    For example contains(columnname, 'D-57')

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    Hi @mlauit ,

     

    Has your problem beed solved?

    If not, could you provide some specific sample?

     

    Best Regards.

    Wearsky

  • mlauit Profile Picture
    10 on at

    Thanks Nutty.  I have now wrapped everything in single quotes, before I only had a leading quote.  I did find another problem where it was using some kind of code instead of the actual value.  I have made the changes and now just waiting for more reports to come in.  Thanks for the help!

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