I'm trying to create a field that displays a single number 0,1,2,3,4 depending on the following.

If field A is not empty, display "1"

if field B is not empty, display "2"

If Field C is not empty, display "3"

If Field D is not empty, display "4"

If field A is empty, display "0"

 

Thoughts?

What if a,b,c and d are not empty?

Try

 

Case (

not IsEmpty ( Field D ); 4;

not IsEmpty ( Field C ); 3 ;

not IsEmpty ( Field B ); 2 ;

not IsEmpty ( Field A ) ; 1; 

""

)

 

If you want it to be reflecting 0 then exchange  the “” to 0

Mr Lee Smith, that worked!!! Thank YOU SIR!!

I must be missing something here. The Case function will return True for the first, and only the first, condition met.

Read the help on Case. 

 

http://fmhelp.filemaker.com/fmphelp_11/en/html/func_ref3.33.2.html

 

In particular, the Description.

Hi Lee,

 

I understand the Case function. i think I don't understand the op's original question. Returning a single digit from a number of conditions seems problematic.

I must be missing something here.

 

Obviously, there is an order of priorities at work here, that both Lee and Matthew understand and you and I don't.  Otherwise Matthew will be back with a follow-up question.

You made a good point in your first post, and I wasn’t sure what their final need would be. In fact, I fully expected the OP to post that they need a way of tracking which ones had data in them.

 

In any event I gave them a way to move the need down the road while taking the opportunity  to make it a learning process.

 

comment posted just as I was making this up, but I will post this anyway.