Question

I want to use Virtual Fields to concatinate wo fields together that will used in my dropdown .like firstname and last name.

It shows fine if i dont use any separator.

But I got an error while i concatinate those fields with space,star or smothing else.

Here is my code:

var $virtualFields = array(
             'name' => 'CONCAT(MaterialOwner.first_name,"-",MaterialOwner.last_name)'
        );

NOTE: I am working in PostgreSQL. May be this is an issue in postgres.

Plz help

Answer 1

First of all you should post the error you get.

The problem is that PostgreSQL uses only ‘ for strings. The ” is used for tables/columns/functions names. So use the code like:

CONCAT(MaterialOwner.first_name,'-',MaterialOwner.last_name)