Newbie Questions

Re: Percentage Calculation only from fields with entries?

adam1v — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 09:43:40 GMT

I wasnt using concat, but there was also a spelling error in my fieldname, all sorted now thanks.

One last (and very last!), the infopath form submits the date as DD/MM/YYYY (I have also checked the formatting), and displays as this, but when saving, the file name gets reverted to YYYY/MM/DD.

I have the date field mapped to a column in sharepoint which also displays it correct, its only in the file name its getting swapped around. Any idea why?

Re: Percentage Calculation only from fields with entries?

Jimmy — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 09:34:17 GMT

Are you using a concat() formula? concat(Fieldname1, " - ", FieldDate)

Re: Percentage Calculation only from fields with entries?

adam1v — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 08:55:24 GMT

That worked a treat thanks. I was already using that formula, but not wrapping it around the whole (existing) formula.

One last thing, Ive chose to submit this to a sharepoint list, using the file name as:

Fieldname1 - FieldDate

The first field is a location and the second is a date. But when saving I get the NaN as the file name.

Is there a way of getting around this?

Re: Percentage Calculation only from fields with entries?

Jimmy — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 18:18:33 GMT

Yeah, just try wrapping that whole formula in number(translate(formula, 'aN', '0')). That should work.

Re: Percentage Calculation only from fields with entries?

adam1v — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 17:52:08 GMT

Wow, thank you guys, for all your help, the problem is solved.

@Jimmy, Is it possible to add a translation function into this, to convert say.... "aN" to a zero, such that the NaN error would be replaced with a zero if nothing is filled out?

Re: Percentage Calculation only from fields with entries?

Jimmy — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 17:59:16 GMT

Qazi's approach is clever, but I think you can accomplish this with a single formula:

(field1 + field2 + ... + field10) div (10 * count((field1 | field2 | ... | field10)[. > 0]))

Re: Percentage Calculation only from fields with entries?

adam1v — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 15:22:55 GMT

Qazi,

Would you mind explaining on what each of the cells are used for? I can follow it, but just not understand it all fully.

Thanks,

Re: Percentage Calculation only from fields with entries?

adam1v — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 08:57:33 GMT

Qazi,

You are a real gentlemen! I will take a look at the code and compare to what I previously had.

I think I should be able to expand on this.

Many, Many thanks

Adam

Re: Percentage Calculation only from fields with entries?

Qazi Anis — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 08:50:56 GMT

I have implemented the solution on a mini scale, let me know if you need any explantion.

Re: Percentage Calculation only from fields with entries?

adam1v — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 08:16:53 GMT

Logically thinking, I think it can be achieved by the following info;

I have 10 fields, with 1-10, so the maximum score can only be 100 (providing all fields are used).

What I think I need is "(field1 + field2 + field3 ...+field10) div (100 "then some if statments - if field1 = blank -10, if field2 = blank - 10..... if field10 = blank - 10).

Does that make sense?

Any help is really appreciated,

Percentage Calculation only from fields with entries?

adam1v — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 17:27:00 GMT

Hi guys, im a real infopath newbie, on a steep learning curve, but enjoying it so far.

I have 10 fields, lets say field1, field2..... field10, each containing a drop down value of 1-10, with an optional blank choice if the particular item is not applicable. (the user might only fill out fields 1 to 5).

I would like to work out a percentage score from the fields which do have figures in.

Firstly, is the above possibly? and secondly, how can I create a percentage from the fields?

please let me know in really simple, easy to follow instructions, as I've only been using infopath for a few days.

thanks in advance,