Formulas

note the formulas block is only available on the professional plan and business plans what are formulas? formula block allows you to make complex operations with values inside landbot, like you do in other platforms like google spreadsheets or excel, and store the result in an outcome variable whereas before you could only transform data with javascript or with external api's, now you will be able to do it, easily, using formulas how to create a formula 1\ select the variable where you want to store the outcome of the formula 2\ choose the output that fit your needs 3\ set the formula 4\ save and use elements of the formulas block 1\ output in the output field you can define or create the variable where the result of the formula is going to be stored for the block outputs you can choose the type of output that fit your needs you have success/error for mathematical operations true/false for types of formula in which the outcome is a boolean value custom when you want specific results as custom outputs 2\ formula here is the editor, where you can create and edit formulas right under the formula you can check the result in real time plus test other values in the formula 3\ formulas browser/docs in this section, you will see all the available methods you can use in the formulas block things you can do when building your formulas 1\ formulas can use fixed values 2\ formulas can use landbot variables 3\ formulas can use formulas inside formulas 4\ formulas can use same output variable 5\ formulas can be chained one after another 6\ formulas can be great with the conditional block things to be aware of when building your formulas 1\ blue ticks! to be a valid formula, make sure both ticks are blue 2\ output variable type make sure the type of the variable is the right format to the type of formula you are using for example, if you are creating a math operation, you want the variable of the output to be a number , not a string type 3\ true and false, are strings that start with capital letter! in case you are using a type of formula that the outcome can be a boolean value, remember that true or false will be strings that the first letter will be uppercase 4\ system variables need " " if you are planning to use landbot system variables like @today, add the " " between those variables 5\ not created variables need " " if the variable is not created yet, it needs " " also to be a valid formula 6\ test before you go into production! test always to make sure the formula works as expected types of formulas comparison comparison formulas available isequal isnotequal isgreater isgreaterorequal isless islessorequal isset you can check examples of use case of comparison formulas in https //help landbot io/article/abeuwnm0le formulas comparison logical logical formulas available and if not or you can check examples of use case of logical formulas in https //help landbot io/article/k1re72s3ih formulas logical math math formulas available product quotient remainder subtract sum tofloat tointeger you can check examples of use case of math formulas in https //help landbot io/article/dcusw7g21o formulas math string string formulas available capitalize contains length lower replace slice split title tostring upper you can check examples of use case of string formulas in https //help landbot io/article/xioxawthfd formulas string array array formulas available contains getvalue indexof length list slice push you can check examples of use case of array formulas in https //help landbot io/article/hyeqntwkl9 formulas array object object formulas available getvalue tojson you can check examples of use case of object formulas in https //help landbot io/article/uvhmbhzd2d formulas object regex regex formulas available regextest you can check examples of use case of regex formulas in https //help landbot io/article/axsc4uc51x formulas regex error log in this section you will be able to check information about errors and it's details