Hi,
It seems that equations don’t evaluate until the record is touched/changed, which I suppose is to be expected?
Here is my issue:
I am making extensive use of Make (Integromat) for things like duplicating/copying child & grandchild records (I love it by the way, very powerful and easy to set up).
One of the records that are created are on a table with a field that is a simple addition formula of some other fields.
However when Make (Integromat) creates a child or its grandchild records, none of the formulas in that record are evaluating, so for examples totals are just showing as blank. Even refreshing the page does not update them.
I am guessing a simple update button will fix the issue (eg it would just update a utility date/time field on the record with the current date).
Before I did that I was wondering if anyone else has this issue, and if so how they get around it?
Thanks!
That shouldn’t be the case. I have over 100 active scenarios and many have text formula or equation fields which update when Make creates the child record. 
Personally, I find it difficult to trouble shoot without seeing what’s you’ve built and walking through it. If you want to connect send me a DM and I’ll see if I can throw any light on it.
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I think the issue might be related to the order of the fields in object. Make sure that the connection field is above the equation.
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Hi @MartinD, and thanks for your reply. Yes I see what you are saying re order of the objects - something to bear in mind in future.
I should have clarified that that on a page, with both parent and connected records, updating the connected
records works perfectly (as in the connected record equations and the parent record equations evaluate and update) no issues.
For me its just when Make creates a record none of the formulas in that record are evaluating, e.g. totals are just showing as blank, and as they are formulas they are not on the actual Make step anyway.
I did try changing the order of the fields in the schema (connection above equations), still no better, as in the equations don’t evaluate in the record written by Make.
As mentioned above though, I do have a simple solution and that is to add the additional step to the Make sequence… “Update a record” , and I just write something to a blank text field on each record! Formulas on that record evaluate - everything works!
I suppose humbleness and being a relative beginner at Knack prevents me from marking my own post above as the solution! Haha
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Hey Calvin, I use these sorts of tricks in Make as well. But right now, I have a similar problem that I cannot figure out. I have a field that is a conditional field (with multiple choice text)… The conditional uses fields above it in the knack field list on the object. I cannot get that field to update properly after a Make update. The way that I fix it is that I have a task that runs daily and it looks for signs that this field is not updated. Then it runs a record update, and that gets the job the done. Any ideas?
Hi @Patrick5, sorry that I only just saw this and a month has passed. Did you get a resolution to this? I have had this issue before. Whenever I come across it, I have a field I call ‘utility update’ a date/time. It’s at the top of the fields. I then update that by putting the current date time in (in this case you could use Make to update it in another ‘update record’ at the end). That has worked for me in the past. Let me know if you are still stuck. Cheers.
thank you so much for the fast reply and for offering to take a look . Just knowing that this should work motivated me to revisit the Scenario. 
