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Hello, I'm new to Lookup Helper and starting to use their tutorials to learn how to use the application. I just started the Easily Monitor Inventory in Salesforce With an Inventory Level Object tutorial which has you create a formula field called Amount in a custom object called Part. The formula is IF(Amount__c > 20, "High", IF(Amount__c > 10, "Medium", "Low") )  but when I check the syntax I get the following error message - Error: Incorrect parameter type for operator '>'. Expected Text, received Number. Seems strange they would publish this tutorial with a wrong formula. Can anyone tell me what's wrong with this formula? Thanks in advance for any help.

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  1. Jan 16, 2023, 2:48 PM

    Hello Glenn,

     

    It sounds like you have the Amount field set to a text value data type when it should be number in order to do the comparison with a > operator.

     

    You can use the value function in the formula if you would like to convert a text value to a number value without having to change the data type of the field like:

    Value(Amount)

     

    https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=sf.customize_functions_value.htm&type=5

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