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Why isn’t this working?

  • November 30, 2020
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Anyone have any clue why this concatenate function isn’t working on a stupid simple to do list I’m trying to make? I’m literally following a tutorial and have restyled it 20x lol I’m going nuts

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  • Inspiring
  • November 30, 2020

Hi Road Dog and welcome to the community!

I’m not an expert in these matters but I think the issue is that Project is not a string (seems to be a lookup) and Concat() requires strings.


kuovonne
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  • Brainy
  • November 30, 2020

Welcome to the Airtable community!

It is hard to tell from your screen capture, but you might be running into the problem with curly quotes. Check if you have curly quotes “ ” and replace them with straight quotes "

I also prefer using the & operator to concatenate, as I find it easier to read.

Task & " - " & Project

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  • New Participant
  • December 1, 2020

I figured it out, it appears to be some sort of glitch where if i enter it via a mobile browser i get an error but entered the same thing on my laptop and it worked :woman_facepalming:t3: