Can scripts reference values from other rows?

Submitted by lucasd on 2012/11/30 14:40
 Is it possible for scripts to reference field values from other rows (e.g, reference a field value from previous or next sibling)? If so, what's the syntax? Thanks, -Lucas

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 I'm pretty sure the answer to this is no. You can access children's values, but not sibling's values. You can't access parent's values either, but that is planned. See Hierarchy Equations in Field Management Dialog - Equations.
 
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lucasd

2012/12/04 10:51

In reply to by reesd

Thank you, reesd, for the clarification. Very helpful. -L

reesd

2012/12/11 09:24

In reply to by lucasd

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Thank you, reesd, for the clarification. Very helpful. -L
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Sure. If you want to share what you wanted to do (maybe in another thread) folks have have some other ideas. We have some very ingenious folks on this forum :).
 
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lucasd

2012/12/21 10:48

In reply to by reesd

Thanks, Reesd. I was thinking about creating an automatic scheduling system in order to assign tasks to to calendar blocks. The idea would be to have IQ check when the next available time slot is, and then schedule the task accordingly. (Basically I'd like to re-create some of the basic functionality of MS Project for automatic personal scheduling and time planning.) If scripts could reference their siblings, it might be possible to create something like this...