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Sum duplicate items

By: Andres Garcia | Asked: 12/14/2022
Forums › Category: General questions › Sum duplicate items
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Andres Garcia asked 2 years ago

I have a form with 2 fields. First field is Text, second is Numeric. Is there a way if someone enters  info into the text field, but an entry with that data already exists, to have the form sum the Numeric fields, thus maintaining 1 entry?

I would be fine if after it saw that a previous entry already exists, it copies the Numeric data from the older entry to this form and Sums the values....then deletes the older entry.

Thanks

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Victor Font answered 2 years ago
Store the value of the previous entry in a hidden field using this: https://formidableforms.com/knowledgebase/get-a-value-from-an-entry/. Add the values in the current entry. Delete the previous entry after the new entry is saved. If you delete the previous entry before the new entry is saved, you won't have anything to refer to if the user decides not to submit the form.
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Andres Garcia answered 2 years ago
What if it isn't the previous entry that I'm validating against, but any of the entries created?
Victor Font replied 2 years ago

Then you need to create custom code to gather the info you want to summarize and may need to use Ajax to determine the sum in real time.

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