Custom fields not working for me

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Hi all,

I am trying to create a simple custom field = field1 - field2
Also, custom expressions are not allowing me to choose/type fields either
It doesnt seem to want to accept my field selection and the done button remains disabled?

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Can you provide more details about your browser, OS, database, and Metabase version please? Thanks!

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Hi Maz,

I am still running v0.22.2, that’s 2 versions ago. I had a look at the release notes and couldn’t find anything logged for this issue. I will try upgrading shortly and then retry. We are running Metabase on a EC2 instance on AWS with Linux Jessie I believe. I am using latest chrome version.
Thank you for the response.

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Cool. Without more details, one thing I could guess at is that field1 and field2 possibly aren’t marked as Numbers in the metadata section of the AdminPanel.

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thx maz, I will go check it out, they should be 2 decimal fields but I will go check that.

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Hi Maz,

I updated the metadata to be numbers for those 2 columns, but still doesnt behave very well. I even tried a fresh install of metabase locally in docker and it does the same thing. Does this functionality work for you?

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Oh, I think this might just be a dumb UX issue: does the button light up if you give your formula a name? (I just tested this and it is working for me.)

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Hi Maz, it doesnt allow me to type anything, only allows selection from the list of fields thats all, everything else is ignored, maybe i try a different browser…

UPDATE! works fine in firefox, but chrome simply refuses anything in the name field

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Super weird, but it might be something we’ve fixed since v.22

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awesome yeah, i need to upgrade! Thanks for the feedback, really appreciate it.

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I’m using v0.23.1 there’s a similar issue with custom expression in the questions.

Can’t enter anything (gets stuck on the functions selection). Doesn’t work in Chrome or firefox. Does work in Safari.

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yes, I actually tried it in a new docker install using the :latest tag, same thing.
I got it working in Firefox though. I found the same issue when trying to specify a custom expression in the VIEW section.

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The issue where the cursor gets stuck in v0.23.1 was fixed in 0.24.

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Nice, thank you! :clap:

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