Hello World (cheap gag I know), For those of us who grew up on Insight, Scribe Online poses some interesting challenges. Not just with the UI and the different thought process that goes into designing integration, but also how to get the data to look and feel how we want it to. Inside Scribe Online we have a slightly smaller set of functions than Insight does, so how do we get the same result? My plan with these posts is to help out and let you all know how to teach this new dog some old tricks. Let’s start with an easy one…what to do with null data. Now, this ALWAYS caused me issues in Insight because if I was concatenating some strings together, and one of them happened to be null, it killed my formula and the whole thing ended up null. No bueno. So, we always had to wrap our source values with this formula: IF(ISERROR(S#), “”, S#). Fine and dandy, it works, but if you are like me, it’s annoying to have to write the S# twice. In Scribe Online it’s a bit easier. If one of the concatenated values is null, it just works. Bueno. However, sometimes you need to do something with that value if it were indeed null, namely make it not null. So, how do we accomplish that? Again, pretty simple. There is a function in Scribe Online that will verify that a field is null, and if so, replace it with a value of your choosing. The formula looks like IFNULLUSE( Account.Name , “Default Name”). So, no more IF/THEN statement needed, just one simple formula. Like I said, we’re starting with an easy one but I will be putting more of these things out there for you all. Brendan
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