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SethStaley
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June 24, 2025
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Pulling Descriptive text into a concatenated calculated field

  • June 24, 2025
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I'm trying to pull the text from descriptive text fields into a calculated field that starts with an if statement, but I can't get the text to show I can only get it if its a text field. Any suggestions on pulling descriptive text from those fields ? Below is the if statement I started with. IF({DE:GF Paid Media Type}="TikTok",CONCAT({DE:Companion Assets for TikTok Paid Media},"",{DE:TikTok Video Specs},"",{DE:Copy for TikTok Assets Paid Media}),"")
Best answer by Sven-iX

Hi @sethstaley 
By definition a "descriptive text field" is not actually a "field" - it has no value and therefore you can't reference it with {DE:asdasd} and print out the text. The descText means "put this chunk of text on the page and if there's a link, make it clickable. That's all it does.

 

How about you 

  • add a admin-only section
    • create the field to hold the text
  • in stead of a descriptive text you can place a calculated (read only) field that references the hidden field 
  • in your original field you can combine the strings and values of several such calculated fields.

 

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Sven-iX
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Sven-iXCommunity AdvisorAccepted solution
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June 24, 2025

Hi @sethstaley 
By definition a "descriptive text field" is not actually a "field" - it has no value and therefore you can't reference it with {DE:asdasd} and print out the text. The descText means "put this chunk of text on the page and if there's a link, make it clickable. That's all it does.

 

How about you 

  • add a admin-only section
    • create the field to hold the text
  • in stead of a descriptive text you can place a calculated (read only) field that references the hidden field 
  • in your original field you can combine the strings and values of several such calculated fields.

 

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