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Creator fields and its applicable operators

Arithmetic operators:

Used to perform mathematical operations on numerical values and concatenate operations on text values.

Data TypeField (Operand 1)Applicable Arithmetic OperatorsApplicable Field Types (Operand 2)Response

 Text

  • Name
  • Email
  • Address
  • Phone
  • Single Line
  • Multi Line
  • Drop Down
  • Radio
  • Rich Text
  • Image
  • Url
  • Signature
  • File Upload
  • Audio
  • Video
  • Users
  • Integration
  • Keyword Extraction
  • Sentiment Analysis
  • Object Detection
  • Text Analysis

+

  •  Boolean
  •  Date-Time
  •  Decimal
  •  Number
  •  Text
  •  Time
  •  List

When the '+' operator is applied between a text type field and any applicable type field, the values get concatenated.

For example:The following example adds a single line field that gets the username of an email address and a dropdown field that lists the supported domains. Let's assume 'shawn13' and 'zylker.com' are the input username and domain respectively.

info username + "@" + domain;  //returns shawn13@zylker.com

Note: For File-upload, Audio, Video, and Signature fields, the file name will be concatenated to the input text, and for the Image field, the image HTML content will be concatenated.

 Number

  • Auto Number
  • Lookup - Dropdown/Radio
  • Number

+

  •  Text

When the '+' operator is applied between a number type field and a text type field, the values get concatenated.

For example: Consider the following scenario where you need to combine the address number and street name. The following example adds a number field with the single line field.

Let's assume '101' and 'Elliot Avenue' are inputs of address number and street.

Info Number + ", " + Single_line_field;  // Returns, 101, Elliot Avenue.

Note:  For the look-up field, the record IDNumber) will be stored as its value.

+

-

/

*

%

  •  Decimal
  •  Number

Follows the arithmetic rules. Performs mathematical operations based on the operator used.

Note: For the lookup field, the record ID(Number) will be stored as its value. The ID number will be used for arithmetic operations depending on the operator used.

 Boolean

  • Decision Box

+

  •  Text

When the '+' operator is applied between the decision box field(true/false) and the text type field, the values will be concatenated.

For example: Let us consider a decision box and a single-line field. Assume the decision box is 'on', and 'text' is the input of the single-line field

info decision_box + single_line;  // Returns truetext

 Decimal

  • Percent
  • Currency

+

  •  Text

When the '+' operator is applied between a decimal type field and a text type field, the values get concatenated.

+

-

/

*

%

  •  Decimal
  •  Number

Follows the arithmetic rules. Performs mathematical operations based on the operator used.

 List

  • Checkbox
  • Lookup-Multiselect/Checkbox
  • Multiselect

+

  •  Text

When the '+' operator is applied between the list type field and a text type field, the values get concatenated.

Note:  For the Lookup-Multiselect field, the record ID Number) will be stored as its value and it will be concatenated with the text value.

 Date-Time

  • Date
  • Date-Time

+

  •  Text

When the '+' operator is applied between the list type field and a text type field, the values get concatenated.

 

Relational operators:

They compare two given values and return a boolean value as a response. They are more commonly used in conditional statements.

Data TypeField (Operand 1)Applicable Relational OperatorsApplicable Field Types (Operand 2)Notes

 Text

  • Name
  • Email
  • Address
  • Phone
  • Single Line
  • Multi Line
  • Drop Down
  • Radio
  • Rich Text
  • Image
  • Url
  • Signature
  • File Upload
  • Audio
  • Video
  • Users
  • Integration
  • Keyword Extraction
  • Sentiment Analysis
  • Object Detection
  • Text Analysis

==

!=

  •  Text

In File-upload, Audio, Video, and Signature fields, the file name will be stored as a value in the field, and for the Image field, the image URL will be stored. These file names will be used for comparison.

For example: Consider a File_upload field, the name of the file uploaded in this field is ' File.pdf'. Let's compare this field with a single line field of value ' File.pdf'

info file_upload == single_line_field;  //Returns true, as the value in the single line field and the value of the file upload field, are matched.

 Number

  • Auto Number
  • Lookup - Dropdown/Radio
  • Number

<

>

<=

>=

==

!=

  •  Decimal
  •  Number

In the look-up field, the record ID (Number) will be stored, and that ID will be considered as a number for comparison.

For example: Consider a lookup field 'Lookup_field' with the value '12345678910' and a number field 'Number_field' with value '123'.

On comparing these values,

info Lookup_field == Number_field ;  // Returns false.

info Lookup_field > Number_field ;  // Returns true

 Boolean

  • Decision Box

==

!=

  •  Boolean

The two boolean field values will be compared.

For example:Consider two boolean fields, ' Decision_box_1' and ''Decison_box_2' of values,

Decision_box_1 in true state

Decision_box_2 in false state

On comparing these two fields,

info Decision_box_1 == Decision_box_2;  //Returns false

info Decision_box_1 != Decision_box_2;  // Returns true

 Decimal

  • Percent
  • Currency

<

>

<=

>=

==

!=

  •  Decimal
  •  Number

The values in these fields will be considered as numbers and compared. Depending on the operator used, the boolean value will be returned.

For example:Consider Two percentage fields 'Percentage_field_1' and 'Percentage_field_2', of values 60.0 and 70.0,

info Percentage_field_1 > Percentage_field_2 ;  // Returns false.

info Percentage_field_1 < Percentage_field_2 ;  // Returns true.

 List

  • Check Box
  • Multi Select

==

!=

  •  Text
  •  List

Comparing the list with the text data type

For example: Consider a Multi_Select field 'Zoho_Product' and a single_line field 'Keyword' with values,

Zoho_Products = 'writer', 'sheets', 'crm'

Keyword = 'writer'

Now, let's compare these fields.

info Zoho_Products == Keyword ;  // Returns true, as the value of Keyword is listed in Zoho_Products.  

Comparing list with list data type

If a list type field is compared with another list type field it will be treated as a text.

For example:Consider a checkbox fields 'Zoho_Products' and 'Keyword' with values,

Zoho_Products = 'writer', 'sheets', 'crm'

Keyword = 'writer', 'crm', 'sheets'

Now, let's compare,

info Zoho_Products == Keyword ;  // Returns false, as they are not in the exact same order.

  • Lookup - Multiselect/Checkbox

==

!=

  •  Number
  •  List

Comparing the list with the number data type

In the look-up field, the record ID(Number) will be stored as a list and it will be compared.

 

For example:Consider a Look-up Multi_Select field 'Lookup_Multiselect' and a Number field 'Number_field' with values,

Lookup_Multiselect = '4359134000000146007', '4359134000000148007', '4359134000000151005'

Number_field = '4359134000000148007'

Let's compare

info Lookup_Multiselect == Number_field ;  // Returns true, as the value of Number_field is in the list of Lookup_Multiselect.

Comparing the list with the list data type

On comparing the Lookup-Multiselect field with another list field, it will be treated as a text.

For example: Consider two list type fields 'Lookup_Multiselect' and 'Checkbox_field' with values:

Lookup_Multiselect = '4359134000000146007' '4359134000000148007' '4359134000000151005'

Checkbox_field ='4359134000000151005' '4359134000000148007'

Let's compare,

info Lookup_Multiselect == Checkbox_field;  // Returns false, as they are not in the same order..

 Time

  • Time

<

>

<=

>=

==

!=

  •  Date-Time
  •  Time

If a time field is compared with the date-time field, only the time value from the date-time field will be considered for comparison.

Note:  A Time field cannot be compared with a Date field.

 Date-Time

  • Date
  • Date-Time

<

>

<=

>=

==

!=

  •  Date-Time
  •  Time

If a date field is compared with the date-time field, only the date value will be considered for comparison.

If a date-time field is compared with the time field, only the time value will be considered for comparison.

Note:  A Date field cannot be compared with a Time field.

Logical operators:

Typically used with multiple conditions in the criteria. Each condition returns a boolean value, and the logical operators used to connect the conditions determine the overall boolean value of the criteria.

For example: Consider a number field 'Experience' which contains the experience of the candidate. Let's set criteria to check whether the candidate has experience between two-to-four years.

Experience = 3; 
Response = (Experience > 1) && (Experience < 5) ; 
//returns true, as the experience of the candidate falls within the criteria.
Data TypeField (Operand 1)Applicable Logical OperatorsApplicable Field Types (Operand 2)Response

 Boolean

  • Decision Box

&&

||

!

  •  Boolean

Follows boolean laws.

 

Note: 

  • Prediction field's data type changes dynamically with respect to the predicted value in the field. For example, if the predicted value is a text, the field behaves like a text type field.
  • Subform field is an advanced field type, which contains fields of varied data types. So, a subform field does not take any data type as such. However, we can refer to the fields in the SubForm as <SubForm_Name>.<SubForm_Field>.
  • Section is not meant to collect data. So, it does not take any data type.
  • Formula field can contain expressions which can resolve to any one of decimal, number, text, boolean, date-time or time values. Hence, the resultant expression's data type will be the data type of the formula field.

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