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Michael MMichael M 

Soql WHERE long text area != null

Hello, i need to find records where a long text area field is not null. However i am getting an error that you cannot filter soql queries with long text areas. Is there any way to workaround this?
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AbhishekAbhishek (Salesforce Developers) 
https://salesforce.stackexchange.com/questions/21298/filtering-by-long-text-area-field-in-soql

This will answer your query.

And an Idea is already raised for "Allow filtering on long text areas in SOQL"

https://trailblazer.salesforce.com/ideaView?id=08730000000ksTKAAY#:~:text=In%20SFDC%20reports%20you%20can,filter%20on%20long%20text%20areas.

Please vote it.

Let me know if it helps you and close your query by marking it as solved so that it can help others in the future.

Thanks.

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AbhishekAbhishek (Salesforce Developers) 
https://salesforce.stackexchange.com/questions/21298/filtering-by-long-text-area-field-in-soql

This will answer your query.

And an Idea is already raised for "Allow filtering on long text areas in SOQL"

https://trailblazer.salesforce.com/ideaView?id=08730000000ksTKAAY#:~:text=In%20SFDC%20reports%20you%20can,filter%20on%20long%20text%20areas.

Please vote it.

Let me know if it helps you and close your query by marking it as solved so that it can help others in the future.

Thanks.
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Michael MMichael M
Awesome- thank you
Sachin HoodaSachin Hooda
If you're in Apex Context. Since you can't add a filter to Textarea field in SOQL, instead, query record without using any filter, iterate with a filter & store them in a new list like, 
List<Account> accList = [....];
List<Account> filteredList = new List<Account>();
for(Account acc : accList){
   if(String.IsNotBlank(acc.myTextArea__c)){ //add your filter here..
    filteredList.add(acc);
    }
}
Michael MMichael M
Excellent- thank you