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Re: max value of two controls

thoness — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 18:30:38 GMT

That was what I ended up doing. I thought there was a fucntion that I didn't know about that would receive similar results with less work. Thanks for the help Clay!

Re: max value of two controls

Clay Fox — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 18:13:42 GMT

Max is used on a repeating node to return the largest value from the list. Since these are two fields you need to think simpler.

In your case you would have two conditional rules a>b and b>a and then have your action, maybe set max with value of a if it is greater, etc.

max value of two controls

thoness — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 17:10:55 GMT

How would I go about doing that? Everytime I try to build a formula I always get a syntax error when I verified.

It would look like this:

node a, node b

max(node a, node b)

So I thought I'll just create a group of the two and do a max of the group. But then I would just NaN for the value. I'm probably using the wrong function but I don't see anything that would work. I've done a workaround by creating dummy controls with rules to take the value of a if a is greater then b. Any suggestions?