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HBF SFDC Trigger syntax for combining data from 2 text boxes
Hello Community-
I'm trying to build a threaded results textbox that auto posts the date and name of the person contributing. I need the results inside of an SFDC form.
My idea is to create 2 fields - one for adding a message and one for displaying the thread.
Field 1 - long text - Type_Here__c
Field 2 - long text - Display_Here__c
Jim Smith logs in to the record and wants to comment. He types "Hello World." in Type_Here__c
After saving the record, Display_Here__c looks like this:
7/1/2010 - Jim Smith - Hello World.
Next, Stacy Jones needs to add her info and types "Sounds good." in Type_Here__c
After saving the record, Display_Here__c should look like this:
7/2/2010 - Stacy Jones - Sounds good.
7/1/2010 - Jim Smith - Hello World.
For all subsequent messages, they must be typed in the "Type_Here__c" field and the "Display_Here__c" field is locked for editing. Each new message is a prefix of the old messages with the name and date stamp.
I don't know code, so if as much syntactically correct code could be provided, I think I could tweak a little to make it work, but I'm terrible at inventing the new code necessary (I'm hunting for a programmer as we type).
Thanks in advance for any help!
Aaron
It turns out I was able to make this work with work flow. I have 2 long text boxes (rich text boxes bugged out with the HTML).
Field 1: Type_Here__c (3 lines visible)
Field 2: Display_Here__c (locked for editing on the page layout) (5 lines visible)
The workflow is one rule to test for typing in Type_Here__c. If it's found, a workflow occurs with 2 actions. Action 1 is a field update related to Display_Here__c with the following logic:
Text(Month(Today())) & "-" & Text(Day(Today())) & "-" & Text(Year(Today())) &
" - " & LastModifiedBy.FirstName & " " & LastModifiedBy.LastName & " - " &
Type_Here__c &
BR() &
BR() &
Display_Here__c
Action 2 simply clears the contents of Type_Here__c.
I hope this helps anybody who needs this or a similar feature and thanks for everybody who contributed!
Thanks,
Aaron
PS I'm not sure if this is a bug, but the break HTML applied by the function BR() breaks (is removed) after each update if Display_Here__c is a rich text field.
All Answers
Hi,
From the top of my head I'd say that you can accomplish this also with a workflow rule with a field update so you don't necesserily need to have a trigger. The field to update would be Display_Here__c and formula would then be
Display_Here__c + '\n' + Type_Here__c.
I'm not sure either if the line break \n works on a formula. If not then you probably want to do this on a trigger.
And you can add TEXT(TODAY()) + ... to beginning to get the date.
I don't think workflow would cut it, plus trying to get this logic into a formula is going to be tricky.
So, on that note, how does this look?
trigger threading on yourObj__c (before insert, before update){
for(yourObj__c thisObj:Trigger.new){
if(thisObj.type_here__c != null){
String userName = UserInfo.getName(); //current user's name
String timestamp = DateTime.now().format(); //Current time, .format() localizes it.
thisObj.display_here__c +=
timestamp + ' - ' + userName + ' - ' + thisObj.type_here__c+'\n';
thisObj.type_here__c = null; //blank out the type_here field
}
}
}
It turns out I was able to make this work with work flow. I have 2 long text boxes (rich text boxes bugged out with the HTML).
Field 1: Type_Here__c (3 lines visible)
Field 2: Display_Here__c (locked for editing on the page layout) (5 lines visible)
The workflow is one rule to test for typing in Type_Here__c. If it's found, a workflow occurs with 2 actions. Action 1 is a field update related to Display_Here__c with the following logic:
Text(Month(Today())) & "-" & Text(Day(Today())) & "-" & Text(Year(Today())) &
" - " & LastModifiedBy.FirstName & " " & LastModifiedBy.LastName & " - " &
Type_Here__c &
BR() &
BR() &
Display_Here__c
Action 2 simply clears the contents of Type_Here__c.
I hope this helps anybody who needs this or a similar feature and thanks for everybody who contributed!
Thanks,
Aaron
PS I'm not sure if this is a bug, but the break HTML applied by the function BR() breaks (is removed) after each update if Display_Here__c is a rich text field.