Hello all,
I’m just wondering if there is something equivalent like “ISNULL” (SQL Server)?
Background:
I’m ordering my list of entries via “-sys.createdAt”.
In our requirement it should be possible to set a “created at” date explicitly if necessary (to have the possiblity to set a entry back in time).
For this we have created a custom “created at” date field.
Now it would be great if I could order by my custom “created at” field and if it’s null “sys.createdAt” should jump in, e.g. like ISNULL(fields_created_at, sys_created_at)
Is something like this possible? Or are there any recommendations to handle this problem?
Thank you very much!
Hi @chavaroche,
If I understood you correctly, you’d like to do two actions with a given field A of your content type:
- Find entries that do not have a value on field
A
- Populate field
A of these entries with a given default value
Is that a correct assessment?
If so, the simple way to do that would be to use the existence parameter to find entries that do not have a particular field value (e.g. fields.fieldA[exists]=false) and subsequently send a simple PUT request to update it with a given value. You could easily programmatically do that by using one of our SDKs.
Let me know if that makes sense 
Hi @gabriel,
is there any way to filter for a field with a specific value or null? I mean, something like:
fields.fieldA[exists]=false OR fields.fieldA=someValue
Would it be valid this?
fields.fieldA[in]="",“someValue”
Thank you.
Regards
Unfortunately your last query wouldn’t work out (fields.fieldA[in]="",“someValue”). We don’t have a parameter that fully mimics the behaviour of a given OR operator.
In this case, you’d need to perform two separate requests and concatenate results in your final response.
Hope this helps!
