A message box is really just a string so you would want to have 2 actions in your Active Link or Filter
Action 1 is a Set Fields to do your calculation Action 2 is your Message action Fred -----Original Message----- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Sweety Sent: Saturday, March 29, 2014 7:21 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Mathematical Calculations Hi Doug, I tried to do this calculations in the message box which did not work, it returned number1 - number2 as a string as it is. So, I am trying to find out where all I can do the calculations. With your explanation it seens we can do this calculations only in set field or push field actions, am I write? Exploring Remedy. -----Original Message----- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Mueller, Doug Sent: Saturday, March 29, 2014 6:15 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Mathematical Calculations What are you attempting to do? If you want to perform a calculation and set the result to a field on the current form... yes, the mechanism for that is a Set Fields. What other mechanism would you need? If you want to perform a calculation and set the result to a field on a different form... well, you would be using a Push Fields operation for that and you can do a calculation in a Push Fields operation. If you want to perform a calculation as part of a qualification to do something like compare the result of two fields to a third field, you can specify the calculation as part of the qualification itself. Now, that qualification would be in a Set Fields or Push Fields operation if in workflow or in the query that you are issuing to the system if it is a direct query. If you want to perform a calculation to compute a position or something to use in a Function call, you can perform the calculation within the function parameter itself. Of course, that function would be in a Set Fields or Push fields operation. If this doesn't answer the question, you need to help us out by explaining what you are trying to accomplish and where it is you want to be able to use a calculation. Essentially, you should be able to use a calculation directly wherever it is appropriate to have a calculation. Doug Mueller -----Original Message----- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Sweety Sent: Saturday, March 29, 2014 11:18 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Mathematical Calculations Is set fields the only way for calculations? _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org "Where the Answers Are, and have been for 20 years"
