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Turn number filed and Vstring fiield to vstring

CherylH
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Beginner question here.

 

How to do I turn a field coming in as "double" to a string?

 

Need to concatenate double string & vstring to a vstring.

 

 

Here is my formula, billing # is the double and brand is vstring.  think I need a to text or something before the double.

[BP Billing #]+[CMA Brand]

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ggruccio
ACE Emeritus
ACE Emeritus

Hi @CherylH ,

 

Use a select tool to change the number to a string prior to attempting your formula.  There are other ways to program it within the formula tool, but this may be easiest.

 

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