Building a Concatenation
A formula can be added to a Profile Rule, which requires Contracts to perform a concatenation, or linking of fields, to produce a character string, which can include both text and numbers.
A user with the Profile Rules Admin permission can set up a Profile Rule that includes a formula, which is concatenated by Conga Contracts and then used to auto-populate a related field in a Company, Contract, or Project Profile screen, or a field in an additional form that has been captured in a Profile.
Concatenation is the action of linking field values together in a series and displaying this string of information in another field in a Company, Contract, or Project Profile screen, or in a field in an additional form that has been captured in a Profile.
A Profile Rules Admin builds the concatenated formula using one or more of the fields in a Profile screen or an additional form, along with symbols, which identify the linkage between the fields. Static text and symbols can also be added if a constant needs to be applied to the concatenation.
The fields used to build the concatenation must be required in order to produce an accurate result. Therefore, a Profile Rules Admin must ensure the fields in the Company, Contract, or Project Profile screen that are used in their formula are required fields. If the concatenation uses an additional field in a Company, Contract, or Project Profile screen, or a field in an additional form captured in a Profile, these profile and additional form fields must also be designated as required.
A Company Profile Rule is written for all the supplier companies stored in Conga Contracts to populate an additional field in the Company Profile named Internal Company Code by concatenating the values captured in one default field and two other additional fields in the Profile.