I've created a validation rule that allows for a field to become mandatory when it meets certain requirements; works great.  However I now need to have this rule not apply to a specific record type and I'm having problems adding it to the rule.

Here's the original rule:

AND( OR( BEGINS( "FL", Account_State_Province__c ), BEGINS("USA",  Account_Country__c ) ),   ISBLANK( TEXT( Agent_Sales_Rep__c )))

the record type is called BBA_Service_Programs and the Id is 01250000000UKIF

I tried adding it on the end using AND but it keeps coming up with errors.

Help is appreciated!

Hello,

I've searched on the boards but haven't found an answer. We have the following case:

We have a lot of fields we need to validate. Some must be > 0, some may not exeed an certain amount, etc...

Instead of copying the same message over and over again by every field, I want to have only a few messages like:

"&1 must be > 0"

"&1 to large".

Where the &1 represents the field. For example:

"BookID must be >0"

"DVDID must be >0"

"BookTitle to large"

"DVDTitle to large"

When we can use a parameters (&1) to represent the fields, we don't have to go through every seperate field to change the message, but I only have to change the message itself.

Does anyone have any idea if an if so, how this is possible?

TIA,

Hilco Joling

Hi,

I am trying to set up a workflow email alert to be send to the owner of the record 7 days before the Due Date (date/time field ) if the picklist value Attending__c is not equals  to "Yes"

Thank you

How would I update this formula field to display more than one choice?  The Type__c field is a multi-picklist, so I need this formula field to reflect that.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.  It currently only displays one choice even though the type field on the account I'm looking at displays 2.

IF(INCLUDES(Type__c,"Consultant"),"Consultant", 
IF(INCLUDES(Type__c,"Reseller"),"Reseller", 
IF(INCLUDES(Type__c,"End User"),"End User","")))

I can't figure out why I am getting an Extra comma message referring to the comma after (ISPICKVAL(Status__c,"Done Not Reviewed"))))

(IF(OR
(AND(Question_Group__c = "A",Answer__c = "Yes"),
(AND(Question_Group__c = "C",Answer__c = "No")),
(AND(Question_Group__c = "B",Answer__c <> " "))),
(ISPICKVAL(Status__c,"Done Not Reviewed")))),"https://c.cs2.content.force.com/servlet/servlet.FileDownload?file=015R00000001kLA",
NULL))

Competitor Final Rate / KP Final Rate is giving #Error! on Rate Position.  How would I create a condition that if the number is 0, leave as blank?  Thanks.

How do I create a validation rule to prevent entry of $0.00?  Thanks in advance.

My Goal is to insert the Account Site Address in the Contact Site Address field when appropriate, otherwise leave the current value (which could either have data or not).

I would like to avoid Apex coding and am trying to use an IF statement in a workflow but don't know how to keep the current value in the "value_if_false" portion of the formula.  Is this possible in the Salesforce "IF" formula or are there alternative methods?

Any help/suggestions are appreciated!

 My validation rule says that the status of my object can only go from the "Prospect" status to the "Tentative" or "Lost" status values. How can I create a formula to reflect this?

I want to make it so that only users with one of three profiles can edit the Account Name if the record type is Customer.

I have it working for one profile but when I try to add an OR statement and include the two other profiles, it does not work:

Here is what is working now:

AND(
( $RecordType.Name  ="Customer"),
 ISCHANGED( Name ),
 $Profile.Name<>"System Administrator - Integration"
)

Here's what I tried:

AND(
( $RecordType.Name  ="Customer"),
 ISCHANGED( Name ),

OR(

$Profile.Name<>"System Administrator - Integration",

$Profile.Name<>"System Administrator - KM",
$Profile.Name<>"System Administrator - KMGP"

))

Can someone see what is wrong with the OR part of this formula?

Thank you so much!

Jane

AND(
Entitlement.EndDate < DATEVALUE(CreatedDate),
ISPICKVAL(Status, 'Open'),
$RecordType.Id = '0123000000008xP'
)

 I'm trying to write a validation rule to not allow a ticket to be created if the entitlement end date is less than the created date of the ticket.   Any ideas on what I did incorrectly?  

Hi,

I have the following formula to automatically calculate the end date (start_date__c + 3 month) for all products other than "standard".

However I would like to replace the false IF statement right at the end (null) by [ Month(start_date__c) +12 ] but I get an error message: Error: Incorrect parameter for function 'if()'. Expected Date, received Number

Do you know how to stop getting this error?

Thank you,

E 

if( PricebookEntry.Product2.Name <> "Standard", DATE(YEAR(Start_Date__c),
MONTH(Start_Date__c)+3,
CASE( MONTH(Start_Date__c)+3,
1, 31,
2, IF( MOD( YEAR(Start_Date__c), 4) = 0, 29, 28),
3, 31,
4, 30,
5, 31,
6, 30,
7, 31,
8, 31,
9, 30,
10, 31,
11, 30,
12, 31,
0 )
), null)

Hi everyone,

I am having difficulties with creating  validation rules in the Opportunity page.  What I want is to have a validation rule for the CloseDate field depending on the value from the Stage picklist, as follows:

Stage: Presentation - Close date can't be within 6 months of today

AND(
OR (
ISPICKVAL(StageName, "Presentation/Demo"),
ISCHANGED( CloseDate )),
CloseDate - TODAY() < 180 )

Stage: Quote Delivered - Close date can't be within 4 months of today

AND(
OR (
ISPICKVAL(StageName, "Quote Delivered"),
ISCHANGED( CloseDate )),
CloseDate - TODAY() < 120 )

Stage: Quote accepted - Close date cannot be within 75 days.

AND(
OR (
ISPICKVAL(StageName, "Quote Accepted/Moving to Procurement"),
ISCHANGED( CloseDate )),
CloseDate - TODAY() < 75 )

What is happening now is that the first rule (180 days) works seemingly fine.  But for the second and third, if the close date is outside of 120 days but less than 180 days, I get the error that it can't be within 180 days, and the same thing (with corresponding values for days) is happening for the third rule. 

What am I doing wrong? 

TIA,

G

Hello,

The validation rule below is working fine, except for the first line with the date.  I'm trying to change this rule to only work on records with a Created Date later than June 6, 2012. No matter where I put it I get syntax errors.  I also changed OR to AND and it didn't like that either.

OR( DATEVALUE (CreatedDate) >DATE(2012,6,6),

OR(
AND(Services__c > 0,
(Product__c <1),
ISNULL(Services_Product_Involved__c)),
AND(Support__c > 0,
ISNULL(Support_Vendors__c)),
AND(Product__c > 0,
ISBLANK(TEXT(Product_Manufacturer__c)))))

Thank you.

Hi,

I created this validation rule on the opportunity to prevent users creating new opps if the account has not passed credit checked. (one of the business rules)

AND(ISNEW(),
true, Account.Credit_Check_Passed__c = false)

It works fine but when converting a lead, this rule prevents from converting.  The "Do not create a new opportunity upon conversion" box is checked by default, and when unckecking it, the validation rule prevents conversion. 

I have been trying to add: AND (ISNEW(), Accountid...... with no luck. How can I make sure that this validation rule only applied when the acocunt is not new. 

Thank you

Have a custom object name "Overview", created a new custom field data type "formula" named Account. The Account field is being pulled from another custom object "Highlight". Below is my formula:

Highlight__r.Account__c

However, when pulling the fied into the Overview field, i get the ID format instead (see screenshot: http://cl.ly/HXhM). 

Is there any way I can get it to show the text instead of the ID? 

Thanks!

Trying to create a field update to pull data from a Picklist field from the Product2 object to a text field on the opportunity product object.  Have tried various things like single quotes vs. double quotes, and && or ||  not sure what else to try here.

Keep getting various syntax errors...

IF(ISPICKVAL(Product2.Family,"SNS Surveyor"),'SNS Surveyor’  ||

IF(ISPICKVAL(Product2.Family,"SNS Event Monitoring"),'SNS Event Monitoring'  ||

IF(ISPICKVAL(Product2.Family,"SNS Services"),'SNS Services', "")))

Error: Syntax error. Missing '



Hi,

I am trying to create a workflow rule to generate a task when the account address is updated. 

However, tasks should not be created following a lead conversion when the address was blank and a brand new one is added.

I have this formula but it doesn't work... Can you please help? 

AND(NOT(

OR(ISBLANK( BillingCity),ISBLANK( BillingStreet), ISBLANK( BillingPostalCode ),

OR(
ISCHANGED(BillingCity),ISCHANGED( BillingStreet), ISCHANGED( BillingPostalCode )))))

Hi there

Please help me out with validation rule for saying that email ID has to be entered in a specific format as in 'abcd@xyz.com'. I am new to formulas and validation rules.

Thanks

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I just thought I'd throw this one up here in case anyone ever has to do something like this on their SFDC Org. 

We need to track revenue on a custom object by Fiscal Period, but the users don't like having to pick and chose a specific date using the Calendar Pop-Up on the standard Date field. So I created a simple picklist with the Fiscal Periods that they want to break out revenue by for Reports, and created a custom Formula(Date) field

This allows us to run reports on Revenue Projections over a period of time using the Formula(Date) field, while the users get to have their simple picklist.

* There are 2 Record Types for the custom object, that's why  one set of picklist values is for FY and another set is for FQ

CASE( Forecast_Period__c ,
"FY 2009", DATE(2009,1,1),
"FY 2010", DATE(2010,1,1),
"FY 2011", DATE(2011,1,1),
"FY 2009-Q1", DATE(2009,1,1),
"FY 2009-Q2", DATE(2009,4,1),
"FY 2009-Q3", DATE(2009,7,1),
"FY 2009-Q4", DATE(2009,10,1),
"FY 2010-Q1", DATE(2010,1,1),
"FY 2010-Q2", DATE(2010,4,1),
"FY 2010-Q3", DATE(2010,7,1),
"FY 2010-Q4", DATE(2010,10,1),
"FY 2011-Q1", DATE(2011,1,1),
"FY 2011-Q2", DATE(2011,4,1),
"FY 2011-Q3", DATE(2011,7,1),
"FY 2011-Q4", DATE(2011,10,1),
NULL)

I've built a custom App on my Developer SF.Org, and I would like to publish it to my EE Production SF.Org (without having to manually rebuild all of the Objects, Fields, Code, etc.).

I have a *little* bit of experience using the Eclipse Force.com IDE (not even sure if that's a viable option for this). 

I've never Packaged a Custom App before.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Steve :-/

PS.    Oh yeah, as usual money is tight, so getting a 3rd Party App for this is out of the question.

When someone takes the time/effort to repspond to your question, you should take the time/effort to either mark the question as "Solved", or post a Follow-Up with addtional information.  

That way people with a similar question can find the Solution without having to re-post the same question again and again. And the people who reply to your post know that the issue has been resolved and they can stop working on it. 

Need formula for pulling CONTACT fields data and mapping it to custom fields in Opportunities

Example: I need the CONTACT address, phone, city, state , fax to populate Matching Custom fields in the Opportunity when I use the a custom Opportunity lookup. So if I use the LOOKUP field and Select a Contact it also populated the address, phone....etc in opportunity.

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Hi,

I create a custom object "opp product"  and the reuirment is below:

field # 1: Process (which is flied date)

field # 2 : closing stage (which is pick list )

field # 3 = closing stage owner  (which is lookup field on oppportunity)

the reuirment is that if the processing filed had no date picked and closing stage = close complete then closing stage owner  should be null.

I am not sure that how to write a validation rule for this.

please help me and i am new to salesforce.

thanks

 I'm trying to compare values of two picklists to get the right value

For example if the cruise type is 'Half Day' and the Reseller is 'INP' the value is $16

I am using the following..... (excerpt only)

IF(ISPICKVAL(RID__c,"Direct"),(Price_Quoted__c/1.2),
IF ((ISPICKVAL(RID__c,"Acorne")&&(ISPICKVAL(ET__c,"Half Day"))),16,
IF ((ISPICKVAL(RID__c,"Activity Gift/Maximise")&&(ISPICKVAL(ET__c,"Half Day"))),15,
IF ((ISPICKVAL(RID__c,"Activity Gift/Maximise")&&(ISPICKVAL(ET__c,"High Speed"))),20,
IF ((ISPICKVAL(RID__c,"Attraction World")&&(ISPICKVAL(ET__c,"Half Day"))),18,
IF ((ISPICKVAL(RID__c,"Buy a Gift")&&(ISPICKVAL(ET__c,"Half Day"))),12,
IF ((ISPICKVAL(RID__c,"Buy a Gift")&&(ISPICKVAL(ET__c,"Half Day for 2"))),6,
IF ((ISPICKVAL(RID__c,"Buy a Gift")&&(ISPICKVAL(ET__c,"High Speed"))), 7,

etc,etc

The formula works but there are so many picklist values that it is too big when it compiles

I'm trying to find a more effecient way of writing it so that it will compile and have tried 

IF (ISPICKVAL (ET__c,"Half Day"),CASE(RID__c,"Acorne",1,"Direct",2,0),
IF ((ISPICKVAL(ET__c, "High Speed"),CASE ((RID__c,"Acorne",1,"Direct",2,0))))

etc...

and also

CASE(ET__c,"Half Day", CASE(RID__c, "Acorne", 1, "Direct", 2, 0), "High Speed", CASE (RID__c, "Acorne", 5, "Direct", 10, 0)

but can't get the syntax right to make them work

Any suggestions?

I have written the following Validation rule; adding several different countries.  The request is if the Account Country is one of these Countries; then the Agent Sales Rep is to be required/mandatory.

The rule checks out ok but is not firing.  Any suggestions?

AND( $RecordType.Name = "BBA_Strategic_Account_Opportunity",  $RecordType.Name  = "BBA_Service_Programs", OR( BEGINS("Bangladesh",  Account_Country__c ), BEGINS("Belize",  Account_Country__c ), BEGINS("Bermuda",  Account_Country__c ), BEGINS("Bolivia",  Account_Country__c ), BEGINS("Chile",  Account_Country__c ), BEGINS("China",  Account_Country__c ), BEGINS("Costa Rica",  Account_Country__c ), BEGINS("Ecuador",  Account_Country__c ), BEGINS("El Salvador",  Account_Country__c ), BEGINS("French Guiana",  Account_Country__c ), BEGINS("Guatemala",  Account_Country__c ) , BEGINS("Guyana",  Account_Country__c ), BEGINS("Honduras",  Account_Country__c ) , BEGINS("India",  Account_Country__c ) , BEGINS("Mauritus", Account_Country__c ), BEGINS("Nepal",  Account_Country__c ), BEGINS("Nicaragua",  Account_Country__c ), BEGINS("Panama",  Account_Country__c ), BEGINS("Paraguay",  Account_Country__c ), BEGINS("Peru",  Account_Country__c ), BEGINS("Portugal",  Account_Country__c ), BEGINS("Spain",  Account_Country__c ), BEGINS("Sri Lanka",  Account_Country__c ), BEGINS("Suriname",  Account_Country__c ), BEGINS("Uruguay",  Account_Country__c ), ISBLANK( TEXT( Agent_Sales_Rep__c ))))

1. I am trying to create a report that tells me by percentage how much a rep has grown month over month.  I am having trouble getting the formula to give me a percentage of Octobers sales verses Novembers sales.  It is giving me the percentage in $ instead of percentage even though I am telling it I want a percentage. 

Can anyone help me with the formula I need in the report to accomplish this.

I have an IF statement that needs to read

"New monthly rate going forward is $1,000.00"

My formula is

IF(ISBLANK( Custom_Description__c ),
"" ,
"New monthly rate going forward is" &""& Opportunity__r.Current_Monthly_Revenue__c)

but the Opportunity__r field is a currency field and the formula Error says "Incorrect parameter for function &(). Expected Text, received Number

Thank you in advance

Ultimately I am wanting to create a custom field called PO Received Month which pulls the month of the PO Received Date field, but in text format, not number format.

Currently this is the formula I put in the Formula Text field but its spitting out "4" for April and "5" for May and I want it to read "April" and "May".

TEXT(( YEAR( PO_Received_Date__c )))

 Thanks in advance!

I am a bit of a beginner at formulas, so hopefully one of you will think this is easy, and be able to help. :-)

Customer requirement:

Create a formula field that displays the Week Number (as Week 1, Week 2, etc), based on the Date entered on a particular record (same object).

Ex: 01/01/09 - 01/04/09 would return a value of "Week 1"  

01/05/09 - 01/11/09 = Week 2

01/12/09 - 01/18/09 = Week 3

and so on.....

Is using the CASE function the way to go, and if so, what's the shortest way to create this formula?

Thank you in advance!

S