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Problem with variable bind in SOQL query
I've spent the past hour trying to figure out what's wrong with this WHERE clause and am totally stuck:
WHERE employee__c = :UserInfo.getUserId()
and activity_date__c >= :xlStartDate
and activity_date__c <= :xlEndDate
and (invoiced__c = false or :includeInvoiced = true)
includeInvoiced is a public Boolean variable, and invoiced__c is a checkbox field on the object being queried. I keep getting this error: "Compile Error: unexpected token: ':' at line 53 column 44 ".
The token in question is the colon before includeInvoiced. What's going on? If I remove "or :includeInvoiced = true" then it compiles. What am I doing wrong?!?!?
Mike, you can only bind values to columns associated with the SOQL query.
I'd recommend using dynamic SOQL for this use case.
Something like String query = 'Select fields from Object Where .... ' + (!includeInvoiced ? ' and invoiced__c = false' : '');
List<sObject> myObjs = Database.execute(query);
Also note that your value bindings for employee__c and activity_date__c will still work in the dynamic query string.
Hope that helps some.
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Mike, you can only bind values to columns associated with the SOQL query.
I'd recommend using dynamic SOQL for this use case.
Something like String query = 'Select fields from Object Where .... ' + (!includeInvoiced ? ' and invoiced__c = false' : '');
List<sObject> myObjs = Database.execute(query);
Also note that your value bindings for employee__c and activity_date__c will still work in the dynamic query string.
Hope that helps some.
That helps a lot, thanks. I more or less discovered the same thing while I was working on another query and was pondering the best approach.
Thanks for the quick reply!