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bensondanielbensondaniel 

Validation Rule

PRIORVALUE(TEXT(Status__c))= 'Withdrawn'

 

 

In the above code Status__c is a picklist.

I want to throw ann error if it change from withdrown to anything else.

This is not working...

 

I use   TEXT(Status__c) to return the srting value for Status__c, but this is not an acceptable parameter for

PRIORVALUE

 

Can somebody pls help me..

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bob_buzzardbob_buzzard
This isn't really Apex development, but according to the help you should use ispickval, e.g. ISPICKVAL(PRIORVALUE(picklist_field), text_literal)

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bob_buzzardbob_buzzard
This isn't really Apex development, but according to the help you should use ispickval, e.g. ISPICKVAL(PRIORVALUE(picklist_field), text_literal)
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bensondanielbensondaniel

cheers bob..!