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Symbol Text from Combined Variables


scobb

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I have a symbol with three text fields that are each linked to a Record. Two text fields are inside of a circle and together they make up a device type id. The third text field is a unique numerical ID. I'd like for the two fields inside the circle to be automatically centered. Ideally, if they were combined into one text box it would be easy. As you can see from the screen shots, when we have a three character device type it is centered in the circle along with the numerical suffix. However, when the device type is a single character, it appears off center.

 

These are symbols with a record format attached. This would be easy if these were data tags, but they're not. I can link a single text field to a single data record, but is it possible to fill a text field in a symbol with a concatenated string made up from two record format fields? Is there another way to approach this?

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I was able to find the solution. In case anyone else needs to do this, you can add another Record Format field to receive the concatenated variables. Then in the Data Manager you can put in the CONCAT function to join any of the other Record Format fields into one field. Then in the symbol you can link the text box to the record format field that has the concatenated version of the variables. This works well and updates when the user changes the individual fields.

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