Match part of bo1.attribute1 and bo2.attribute2

[ninap]

hi guys,

i have am trying to find and match 2 records based on only part of an attributes contents.

example:

I have 2 objects; Customers which has a relation to Contacts
Customers has an attribute called CompanyName (Customers.CompanyName)

Contacts may be added but not assigned to a customer at the time created and has an attribute Employer (Contacts.Employer)

So in essence we can have 100 contacts with different employers (Redbull,Jack Daniels) etc..
When we get a customer we want to find the contacts which were associated and "Insert" them.

Sometimes the name entered is like 'Jack Daniels The Whiskey Company' and not exactly a match 'Jack Daniels' so we need to figure out how to match these somehow.

Any ideas?

txs in advance, nina

[ninap]

to further describe the issue -

attribute 1 - could contain erroneous data from bad imports as example

attribute1=smirnov vokda company
attribute1=vokda-Smirnov-company
attribute1=Smirnov Vodka

STARTSWITH, ENDSWITH or CONTAINS require some ability to signify a wildcard or even if we could figure out the syntax format - we could write a rule which grabs ALL words before a SPACE or AFTER a delimiter it would help.

has anyone tried to do that?

[tford]

Check out the User Guide & search for "Text functions". WORD_NUMBER, WORDS_FROM_LEFT, WORDS_FROM_RIGHT might be useful to you.

[ninap]

hi tom and thanks,

have invested about 8 hours into learning based on a couple of your's and others posts;

http://www.awareim.com/forum/viewtopic. ... 786#p24786

to learn more I found another fixed syntax which also is a task for me this week -

We have inbound email and I need to also write a matching rule so I need to strip chars from this FromAddress.

FromAddress: 'Firstname Lastname <[email protected]>'

Mission:

• Remove everything before the <
  And remove the >

wrote this rule which is casusing issues gets it to this point [email protected]>

Just cannot remove the ">" from the text field... argh..

email_in.FromEmail=WORDS_FROM_RIGHT(email_in.FromAddress,1)
email_in.FromEmail=CHARS_FROM_RIGHT(email_in.FromEmail,LENGTH(email_in.FromEmail)-INDEX_OF('<',email_in.FromEmail))
email_in.FromEmail=CHARS_FROM_LEFT(email_in.FromEmail,LENGTH(email_in.FromEmail)-INDEX_OF('>',email_in.FromEmail))

What can I be doing wrong in this one ?

super txs, nina

[ninap]

finally - only hours of tinkering

email_in.FromEmail=WORDS_FROM_RIGHT(email_in.FromAddress,1)
email_in.FromEmail=CHARS_FROM_LEFT(email_in.FromEmail,LENGTH(email_in.FromEmail)-INDEX_OF('<',email_in.FromEmail))
email_in.FromEmail=CHARS_FROM_RIGHT(email_in.FromEmail,LENGTH(email_in.FromEmail)-INDEX_OF('<',email_in.FromEmail))

results = email address based on IncommingEmail.FromAddress