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This feels really basic, but I don’t know what I am missing and new at the formula editing.


The issue I am having. I am working off one date (Purchase Contract date) and trying to add a number of days (Home Inspection Contingency) to the contract date, to find (Home Inspection Due) due date.


It is working for all number of day options eg: 5 days, 7, 14 etc, except when NONE is selected or when the selection is left blank.


In either of these cases it still populates the date as a purchase contract date. Ideally in Home Inspection Due it would populate NONE.


Is this possible?


My formula is:

DATEADD({Purchase Contract Date}, {Home Inspection Contingency},‘days’)


below. #1 and #2 are wrong, #3 is correct



I don’t think you want {Home Inspection Due} to actually populate with the word “none”, as this would turn the entire field from the “date” type to a “string” (or plain text), meaning you wouldn’t be able to use it in a calendar view or perform additional calculations with it without some extra work.


As an alternative, you can have the field appear blank by adjusting your formula accordingly:


IF(

    AND({Home Inspection Contingency}, {Home Inspection Contingency} != "NONE"), 

    DATEADD({Purchase Contract Date}, {Home Inspection Contingency}, 'days'), 

    BLANK()

)

I don’t think you want {Home Inspection Due} to actually populate with the word “none”, as this would turn the entire field from the “date” type to a “string” (or plain text), meaning you wouldn’t be able to use it in a calendar view or perform additional calculations with it without some extra work.


As an alternative, you can have the field appear blank by adjusting your formula accordingly:


IF(

    AND({Home Inspection Contingency}, {Home Inspection Contingency} != "NONE"), 

    DATEADD({Purchase Contract Date}, {Home Inspection Contingency}, 'days'), 

    BLANK()

)

Thanks so much Kamille, this is perfect and works how I had hoped.

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