I want to be able to store a value, e.g. a length, but it might need to be entered in different units, e.g. mm or cms or inches etc. I only need to store one and could calculate the others, but how could I set it up so the value could be entered in any of the units and have Tap Forms automatically calculate the other?
Hi Ken,
That wouldn’t work with only one field. You’ll have to pick a single unit and let Tap Forms compute the other units for you.
Thanks,
Brendan
Can you use any form of conditional logic in calculations?
Yes you can.
IF(condition is true, then return value 1, otherwise return value 2)
For example:
IF([Price] > 100, 1.05 * [Price], [Price])
What that means is if the value of the Price field is greater than 100, then return the Price field multiplied by 1.0.5, essentially adding a 5% tax to the Price. If it’s less than or equal to 100 then just return the Price value because there’s no tax on it.
Hope that helps!
Brendan
Excellent. Didn’t realise it could do that. I’ll give it a go.
Thanks Brendan.
I haven’t really made that public. It’s actually a new feature of the new Math parser that I’m using now.
But since the cat’s out of the bag, these are some other functions you can use too:
SQR
SIN
COS
ATAN
SINH
COSH
COTAN
TAN
EXP
LN
LOG
SQRT
POW
LOGN
ABS
SIGN
TRUNC
CEIL
FLOOR
RND
INTPOW
MIN
MAX
MOD
IF
SUM
Oops. I didn’t see your reply to this thread.
The mathematical functions don’t work with Text, but you can concatenate Text fields together like this:
[First Name] + ” ” + [Last Name]
Where [First Name] and [Last Name] are your fields.
Thanks,
Brendan
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