Question: "JavaScript to count contacts in app"

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OP

• September 03, 2014 23:17

Hi,

I am trying to configure the app so I can make it return a count of contacts to use for calculations. But I'm having trouble referencing the contact field. I was thinking about using a JavaScript for that to put in the calculation field.

Does anybody know how I can make a JavaScript for that?

Would be great for budgeting and understanding how budgeting can be affected by team members / connected to app.

Your help is much appreciated.

Thank you!

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  James Hayward

  • September 10, 2014 09:24

  Don't know if this helps but this little calc has helped me out heaps. basically places a count meter in the items. which we can then sum up in reports..

  var foo = Teams; 1;
  // only needed because otherwise Podio will not let us save the template

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  OP

  • September 10, 2014 10:48

  Hi James, I appreciate it.

  I'm not yet able to find the way to make it work, but I'll keep trying.

  Ideally I would be able to put a calculation field beneath the contact field in the item, which would just give a value of x. I have found some info on how to get some counts (below is for space members) if I would go through their API, but at the moment its out of my depth in programming.

  @see https://developers.podio.com/doc/contacts/get-space-contacts-22414 */ public static function get_for_space($space_id, $attributes = array()) { return self::listing(Podio::get("/contact/space/{$space_id}/", $attributes));

  So I'm guessing the information is there somewhere but getting to it my problem. :(

  best,
  Oli

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  Michael Kagan

  • December 19, 2014 05:11

  Hey OP, did you ever solve this issue?

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  Morten Siebuhr

  • November 13, 2015 14:57

  Hi OP,

  If you want to count the number of related items, pick any of the "[ ] All of X" for the desired relation. (That will return a list of X for all the related items). Type ".length" after that to get the length of the list.

  The entire script should end up like "@All of Title.length" and return a number.

  For contact-fields, picking the field returns a list of the contact's names and adding ".length" will usually return the desired result. So something like "@Contacts.length" in the end.

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  Steve Weeks

  • February 18, 2016 17:26

  Really useful tip, thank you.

  I'm sure I've done this too. but @All of Field.length keeps returning zero for me. 

  Frustrated.

  I wonder what I'm doing wrong. Also tried @All of Field.length + 0 

  etc. 

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  Rainer Grabowski

  • February 18, 2016 20:19
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  Hi Steve,

  2 possible reasons for the 0:
  1. There's no item related :)
  2. Check if there are an incoming AND an outgoing relation to the same app. And then check if you've selected the right field token.

  Rainer

   

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