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Give the ability to edit text in a calculation box.

This would be useful because if you create a lengthy calculation, and you read back through it, and find an error. You cannot then correct the error without undoing all the text that comes after it, or starting the calculation from scratch. This makes it very hard to create calculations knowing that if one mistake is made, nothing can be done to easily correct it. This is a major fault which could easily be corrected, as having to redo a whole calculation because a "(" or "+" is missing from the text. This would benefit everyone who creates a form, as it increases the ease of use, otherwise people will shy away from using the function all together because of its faults. I think the people who have created calculations within the forms would greatly appreciate this fuction as would I, simply because of how useful it would be. There are already some great functions within the calculation box whcih increase the ease of use, and it would be ideal if this was one too. It should work by allowing you to select what you want to be deleted, or by simply allowing backspace to work with the calculation box. It should also give you the ability to add charecters at whatever point in the calculation that you want, instead of sending it to the end of the calculation where it is not needed.

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  • Oct 10 2019
Company Morgan Sindall
I need it... Yesterday...Come on already
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  • Matthew Bailey-Lawrence commented
    October 25, 2019 02:49

    I believe that a comprehensive calculation function and scripting service needs to be added to the form.  It would be really useful if we could do multiple complex operations, for example having a parent form that defined the 'work lot' e.g. work (lot) type, location, size etc. and then a child form generated for a test request to be sent to the project laboratory, which includes data from the parent form, as well as calculating the type and number of tests to be undertaken based on the  work (lot) type, location, size.  

     

    In Australia the lack of this function will exclude it's use in civil project for road and rail for organisations that are not able to use in house resources to process data through an API.

  • Jessica Wilson commented
    October 10, 2019 10:31

    This is a fantastic idea it is really time consuming when I make one error and have to delete the entire calculation. Please can we get this fixed.

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