List

Returns a concatenated list of non-blank values for a field or fields.

Format

List ( field {; field...} )

Parameters

field - any related field, repeating field, or set of non-repeating fields; an expression that returns a field, repeating field, or set of non-repeating fields, or a variable.

Parameters in braces { } are optional.

Data type returned

text

Originated in version

8.5

Description

Each returned value, except the last, ends with a carriage return.

Use this function to return a list of values for:

a single field (table::field), which returns a single result over all repetitions (if any) for this field and over all matching related records, whether or not these records appear in a portal.
several fields and/or literal values (table::field1,constant,table::field2...), which returns a separate result for each repetition of the calculation across each corresponding repetition of the fields. If any fields are related, only the first related record is used.

Notes

When referencing multiple repeating fields, the List function returns the list of values across the first repetition in the calculation's first repetition, then the list of values across the second repetition in the second repetition, and so on.

Example 1

In the following examples:

Field1 contains white.
Field2 contains black.
Field3 contains three repetitions with values of red, green, blue.
Related::Field4 refers to three records that contain 100, 200, 300.
$f1 contains orange¶purple.

List (Field1; Field2) returns:

white

black

List(Field3) returns:

red

green

blue

List ($f1; Field2) returns:

orange

purple