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khuslid · 02-01-2020 06:58 AM

My challenge is that I use a “select-formula” (in Table1) to choose a name from another table (Table2).
I have to do it like this, since there is no reference to Table2. This works fine. I get a dropdown of names to choose from.
But in the next row (in Table1) i would like to automaticly pick the matching phonenumber to that name in Table2.
Sounds easy? It’s not! I’ve treid Dereference, Lookup, Any, Select, IF, REF to viritual columns, ++.

I can get a list of phone nubers from table2, but not automaticly picking the one matching the name.

Any suggestions anyone?

MultiTech

Lookup() is most likely the solution you need, just a matter of getting the syntax correct.

Here’s a longer-version explanation of what each entry of the LOOKUP() formula needs:

Lookup(What_to_lookup, what_table_to_look_into, what_column_the_value_will_be_in, what_column_you_want)

To implement something like this, try something like this:

LOOKUP([_thisrow].[Selected_Name], Table2, Table2_Name_Column, Phone_Number)

Here’s a breakdown:

[_thisrow].[Selected_Name] - the second part of this element needs to be switched to the name of the column that’s your dropdown (the one where users select a single name);
Table2 - this needs to be the name of the table that you’re looking up in;
Table2_Name_Column - this needs to be the name of the column (in Table2) where the system will find the value from [_thisrow].[Selected_Name];
and finally, Phone_Number - this is the column (from Table2) that you want to pull data from.

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How to get a value from another table (similar to dereference), when there is no reference to that table?