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Concatenate Values and Gantt Enhancements

Easily combine multiple values into a single cell and color your Gantt charts.
If you have multiple assignees for a given task, multiple tags for an opportunity, or other similar scenarios, the default behavior in Easy Insight is to create a separate row for each assignee or tag. For example, the following report shows the same todo with two assignees:
Concatenation
To combine these two rows, the solution until now was to use the uniqueconcat function with a custom grouping, which was a little more difficult than we liked. Instead, you can now click on the field dropdown for the assignee field and choose 'Concatenate Values' as shown below:
Concatenation
The result combines the two assignee values into a single cell, separated by a comma:
Concatenation
You can also configure the concatenation by doing Edit the Field and checking 'Concatenate Values'.
We've used this functionality to further improve Gantt charts by adding the option to specify a 'Color' field with Gantt charts. When you choose a Color field, it'll color the bars of the Gantt based on the assignee. If multiple assignees are associated to the data, it'll instead show 'Multiple':
Concatenation
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