Making text or numeric comparisons
This section describes how to create conditional styles that make comparisons using numeric data or text.
It is also possible to make comparisons with dates. See Making date comparisons.
- Open the form for which you want to create a shortcut to a related form.
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For M3: Click Tools > Personalize > Create Conditional Styles.
For Lawson: Click Tools > Personalization > Conditional Styles.
- On the Create Conditional Styles dialog box, click New to create a new style.
- If the field shown by default is not the one you want to work with, select Target Field.
- If you are only changing formatting of the field (not making a comparison), click Next to move to the formatting options.
- If you are making a comparison against a value or another field, select the type of comparison you want to make (Numeric or Text).
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If you are making a comparison, configure the options in the table that follows and
click Next when you are finished.
Option Meaning Condition From the drop-down list, select the operator for comparison.
For text and numeric data, you can select the standard comparison operators, including, equal to (=), greater than (>), greater than or equal to (>=) and so on.
For text comparisons, you can select Contains, Starts with, and Ends with.
Field or Specific Value If you are comparing the Target field to another field, select Field here and then in the drop-down to the right, select the field that will be compared.
If you are comparing the Target field to a value, select Specific Value here and then type the value in the text box to the right.
Trim blank spaces If your data contains leading blank spaces, you can remove them from your output by enabling this option.
This option does not appear for Date fields.
+ Click to add another condition (or click "-" to remove an existing condition). - Click Next when you are ready to format the display characteristics for the field.