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JustDJustD 

Checking percentage field for 100% - not working

Hi,

 
Tearing my hair out over this one.  I need a simple validation rule to check that a percentage field's value is <> 100%.
 

This is my rule:

Percentage_Complete__c = 100

This is the result from the debug log when the field has value of 100

20:12:51.054 (54955000)|VALIDATION_FORMULA|Percentage_Complete__c = 100|Percentage_Complete__c=100
20:12:51.054 (54963000)|VALIDATION_PASS

And when the value is 90

20:23:47.056 (56888000)|VALIDATION_FORMULA|Percentage_Complete__c = 100|Percentage_Complete__c=90
20:23:47.056 (56903000)|VALIDATION_PASS

How can it pass with both 100 and 90?

 

But if I change the rule to:

Percentage_Complete__c < 100

When the value is 100 this is the result

20:27:47.075 (75783000)|VALIDATION_FORMULA|Percentage_Complete__c < 100|Percentage_Complete__c=100
20:27:47.075 (75798000)|VALIDATION_FAIL

I get this when the value is 90

20:26:25.055 (55444000)|VALIDATION_FORMULA|Percentage_Complete__c < 100|Percentage_Complete__c=90
20:26:25.055 (55456000)|VALIDATION_FAIL

Again how can this fail with both 100 and 90?



Any help will be much appreciated.

 

Thanks
Derek

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Best Answer chosen by Admin (Salesforce Developers) 
JustDJustD

Thanks for the replies.  But I actually managed to fix this myself (after spotting a relevant comment in another post).

 

In validation rules the value of a percentage field is expresses as 1 for 100%, 0.9 for 90% and so on.

 

Therefore the correct syntax for the rules in question is:

 

Percentage_Complete__c = 1

 

 

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Avidev9Avidev9

May be you need to do "==" instead of "=" ?

 

First one is comparison operator and second one is assignment. So rule should be

 

Percentage_Complete__c == 100

 
KT1KT1
When do you want it to Fire, when it is 100% or when it is less than 100%? Also, what kind of a field is "Percentage Complete"?
JustDJustD

Thanks for the replies.  But I actually managed to fix this myself (after spotting a relevant comment in another post).

 

In validation rules the value of a percentage field is expresses as 1 for 100%, 0.9 for 90% and so on.

 

Therefore the correct syntax for the rules in question is:

 

Percentage_Complete__c = 1

 

 

This was selected as the best answer
KT1KT1

That is what I was going to come back with if you said that it was a Percentage field.