Selecting multiple values from a concatenated field using list box

[Anonymous]

Hi ,

How do you select/filter using listbox from a concatenated field ? For example from the table below I want to see how many meetings have Employee A and B attended ?

Employee	Meeting Type	Meeting Hours(Minutes)
A,B,C	Sales Pitch - XYZ Client	60
A,B,H	Sales Pitch - XXX Client	60
X,B,Z	Sales Pitch - YYY Client	30
H,I,J	Sales Pitch - ZZZ Client	30
D,E,F	Sales Pitch - AAA Client	60
A,B,D	Sales Pitch - BBB Client	30
M,N,O	Sales Pitch - CCC Client	30

[sunny_talwar · Accepted solution]

May be create a Link Table with a field which contain the distinct values of Employee in a column and you make selection in there.

Example Script:

Table:

LOAD * Inline [

Employee| Meeting Type| Meeting Hours(Minutes)

A,B,C| Sales Pitch - XYZ Client| 60

A,B,H| Sales Pitch - XXX Client| 60

X,B,Z| Sales Pitch - YYY Client| 30

H,I,J| Sales Pitch - ZZZ Client| 30

D,E,F| Sales Pitch - AAA Client| 60

A,B,D| Sales Pitch - BBB Client| 30

M,N,O| Sales Pitch - CCC Client| 30

] (delimiter is '|');

LinkTable:

LOAD Employee,

  SubField(Employee, ',') as EmpSelection

Resident Table;

[jonathandienst]

Do you mean to select from the front end?

Click the Employee list box and type

( *A*|*B*)

in the search box.

But you might be better off is you "de-concatenate" the field using SubField during the load.

EDIT: which Sunny has now added to his post

[Anonymous]

Thanks for your help Sunny. I created a link table as you suggested.

[Anonymous]

Thanks for your help Jonathan.