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paul_ripley
Creator III
Creator III

How to restrict fields in a list box

Hello

My data has 2017 and 2016 years in it

I only want to show 2017 year in the selections.

How could I restrict this?

any thanks

Paul

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sunny_talwar

or this

Aggr(Only({1<period = {"2017*"}>} period), period)

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sunny_talwar

May be like this

Aggr(Only({1<Year = {'2017'}>} period), period)

sergio0592
Specialist III
Specialist III

Hi, try with : =if(match(mid(Period,1,4),'2017')>0,Period)

sunny_talwar

or this

Aggr(Only({1<period = {"2017*"}>} period), period)

stigchel
Partner - Master
Partner - Master

In the listbox properties field selection scroll down to the bottom of the list with fields and choose expression. For the expression use somthing like this:

=Aggr(Only({<period={'*'}-{"2016*"}>} period),period)

paul_ripley
Creator III
Creator III
Author

Thanks all for trying but they still show in the screen, usually looking something like below

sunny_talwar

On the general tab and not on the expressions tab

paul_ripley
Creator III
Creator III
Author

Thank you.  I'm a bit of a novice at QV!