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Maybe the simpliest question ever - Groups UI

  • March 18, 2024
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dklinger
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Note I can add 9 other values

Let us say I add another value BIO SMIO (rhyme if you will šŸ˜‚).

  1. What does that tell the logic for Automatic Groups? That the one field must have both values to meet the criteria?
  2. What if I change the operator to contains. Does that contains mean BIO SMIO or BIO Clinical Labs meet the criteria.

I feel like I just may have been cooking a long way by separating out values for a field too often.

Best answer by lhubbard

Equals is an exact match and will only return the one value.

Contains ā€œbioā€ will return both ā€œbio smioā€ and ā€œbio clinical labsā€. Contains ā€œbio clinical labsā€ would not return ā€œbio smioā€.

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lrnlab
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  • March 18, 2024

think it will look for both with the ā€œequalsā€ operator...I usually use 1 for each value if that fits in a single set. Using ā€œContainsā€ might be best but you’ll need to test it.


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  • March 19, 2024

Equals is an exact match and will only return the one value.

Contains ā€œbioā€ will return both ā€œbio smioā€ and ā€œbio clinical labsā€. Contains ā€œbio clinical labsā€ would not return ā€œbio smioā€.


dklinger
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  • March 19, 2024

So there is an involved answer to this and it deserves its own write up.

Almost 10 years ago for another system in another forum far far away? I wrote something else up that is similarĀ to understand the outcomes for those that are more literal and less (or not) SQL minded. So it will probably take some staging to show it in an article. But it currently seems like you can use multiple values with equal to and not equal to...for a single condition. No need to put a single value in each condition with those operators. That will then impact a condition set.


Bfarkas
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  • March 24, 2024

So there is an involved answer to this and it deserves its own write up.

Almost 10 years ago for another system in another forum far far away? I wrote something else up that is similarĀ to understand the outcomes for those that are more literal and less (or not) SQL minded. So it will probably take some staging to show it in an article. But it currently seems like you can use multiple values with equal to and not equal to...for a single condition. No need to put a single value in each condition with those operators. That will then impact a condition set.

Nice to know!