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Hello there smart folks! I am building a base for small film productions, and the industry has some odd practices I have to work around. One of those is tracking scenes on scripts in page length in fractions - specifically 8ths.

For my personal tracking I have a column that just holds the size in the total number of 8ths (so instead of showing 1/8 page it is 1, 1 and 3/8 pages is 11) which I can then total into total number of 8ths.

I now need to convert that back into pages in fraction form to display on one of my reports. So say I have 10 scenes over 5 3/8 pages (so my total is 43). How do I create that 5 3/8 to display?

I hope this makes sense!

Best answer by Ron_Daniel

With some work, this could probably be reduced to one field/formula. But for expediency's sake, try this:

Whole Numbers formula:

ROUNDDOWN({Number of 8ths}/8, 0)

Remainders formula:
{Number of 8ths}-({Whole Numbers}*8)
Fractions formula:
IF({Whole Numbers}=0,
CONCATENATE(Remainders &"/8"),
IF(Remainders>0,
CONCATENATE({Whole Numbers} & " " & Remainders &"/8"),
{Whole Numbers}
)
)
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  • Inspiring
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  • January 16, 2023

With some work, this could probably be reduced to one field/formula. But for expediency's sake, try this:

Whole Numbers formula:

ROUNDDOWN({Number of 8ths}/8, 0)

Remainders formula:
{Number of 8ths}-({Whole Numbers}*8)
Fractions formula:
IF({Whole Numbers}=0,
CONCATENATE(Remainders &"/8"),
IF(Remainders>0,
CONCATENATE({Whole Numbers} & " " & Remainders &"/8"),
{Whole Numbers}
)
)

THANK YOU! Formulas make my brain hurt and I was just staring at this for a while lol. Unless someone teaches us both how to make this smaller I will use it....hooray for hidden fields πŸ˜„ 


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  • January 17, 2023

Here is another option ...

 

CONCATENATE(
ROUNDDOWN({Eigths}/8, 0),
IF(
MOD({Eigths}, 😎,
" " & MOD({Eigths}, 😎 & "/8"
)
)

 

 

 


What a fantastic community πŸ™‚ Thank you ever so much!!!!


kuovonne wrote:

Here is another option ...

 

CONCATENATE(
ROUNDDOWN({Eigths}/8, 0),
IF(
MOD({Eigths}, 😎,
" " & MOD({Eigths}, 😎 & "/8"
)
)

 

 

 


I'm trying this one (ya reduced fields!) but keep getting errors for missing opening parenthesis? 


Circling back to this, wondering if anyone else has a formula suggestion to reduce this to a 2-field setup? Sadly what kuovonne suggested continues to come back with errors for me. Would be nice to reduce my very large table by the 2 extra fields πŸ™‚


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  • February 4, 2025
Ron_Daniel wrote:

With some work, this could probably be reduced to one field/formula. But for expediency's sake, try this:

Whole Numbers formula:

ROUNDDOWN({Number of 8ths}/8, 0)

Remainders formula:
{Number of 8ths}-({Whole Numbers}*8)
Fractions formula:
IF({Whole Numbers}=0,
CONCATENATE(Remainders &"/8"),
IF(Remainders>0,
CONCATENATE({Whole Numbers} & " " & Remainders &"/8"),
{Whole Numbers}
)
)

Hi, I feel very silly asking this. I'm trying out airtable for script breakdowns also and I want to display the page count in fractions but I don't track the number of eighths separately. Is there a way to just input fractions into a column and have them displayed as fractions instead of making a whole formula and a separate column to turn 11 (in a how many eighths column) into 1 3/8.


Mdonahoe wrote:

Hi, I feel very silly asking this. I'm trying out airtable for script breakdowns also and I want to display the page count in fractions but I don't track the number of eighths separately. Is there a way to just input fractions into a column and have them displayed as fractions instead of making a whole formula and a separate column to turn 11 (in a how many eighths column) into 1 3/8.


If you don't need to have anything else use the number, you can just have it as a text box and put the fraction value in to display. However my setup I have the pages being summarized in other places so it won't do the job lol.


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