Hi all, Is there an equivalent of Excel's ind...

Hi all, Is there an equivalent of Excelโ€™s indirect formula in appsheet expressions?

Iโ€™m trying to get the column name from a string in current row. This is the Formula iโ€™ve tried SELECT(Table"["&[Attribute]&"]", TRUE)

My Assumption โ€œ[โ€&[Attribute]&"]" evaluates to [Field1], and as such the above formula should evaluate to

SELECT(Table[Field1], TRUE) Any ideas how i could achieve this?

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Hi @Ivan_Oboth, what youโ€™re trying to do here is called โ€œdynamic bindingโ€ in a programming language. We do not support this.

You can see why โ€” when we check the expression, we have no clue what it is going to be. Is it a list of Images or a list of Text or a list of Numbers? It might be different for every single row. So suddenly we have a completely untyped expression system. You can build a platform that way, but you require very sophisticated users and a very robust debugging environment because all kinds of errors will occur โ€œat run timeโ€ that will be difficult to predict.

Thanks @praveen , makes sense๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿฟ, Iโ€™ll find a way to model my data differently.

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