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jeba mjeba m 

A required field to be updated by concatenating two fields into it while saving a record.........

Hi I have a REQUIRED TEXT FIELD in a custom object and two lookup fields.I want these two lookup fields to be concatenated in a "REQUIRED TEXT FIELD called NAME".Please help me to sort out this.........pls
Boris BachovskiBoris Bachovski
Have you tried creating a workflow that will update the value of your required field with the lookup values? If that doesn't help then you'll need to write a "before trigger" on your object, that will look something like this:

trigger Contact on Contact (before insert, before update)
{
	for (Contact c : trigger.new)
	{
		c.REQUIREDFIELD__c = c.Lookup1__c + c.Lookup2__c;
	}
}
Vatsal KothariVatsal Kothari
Hi,

You can also do it with Workflow rule.

Create New workflow rule with Evaluation Criteria as Evaluate the rule when a record is created, and every time it’s edited & inside rule criteria just give true.

And use field update, update textfield with concatenation of two lookup fields.

If this solves your problem, kindly mark it as the best answer.

Thanks,
Vatsal