Formulas

Hi, I have a table that connects pairwise my data in a kind of graph structure. Is it possible to implement a (recursive or not) depth-first search algorithm that will filter the connected records only for a given cell value?

I need to record weight data for observations that have different levels of precision because they span a wide range and must be measured on different scales. Is there a way to allow for differing levels of decimal precision across entries in a single “Numbers” field? For instance, to enter 4 sample measurements of: 3, 3.0, 3.02, and 3.020, Airtable makes me select a single level of decimal precision for all of the entries, so it ends up showing as something like: 3.000, 3.000, 3.020, 3.020 or 3, 3, 3, 3 or etc etc… You get the idea. In any case, the resulting entries do not accurately reflect the actual data. As far as I can tell, if I want to use this field for formula-based calculations, I must designate it a ‘numbers field’ and therefore must choose a single level of decimal precision for all of the entries. Is there a way to get around this without misrepresenting my data precision and without creating separate weight fields for each level of decimal precision? Thanks for the adv

Hey, I’m trying to calculate points difference. So, if the points difference <= 5 then I’ll give the player 2 ranking points. if the difference is great than that, he doesn’t get any points. I’ve noticed that Airtable doesn’t treat 5 and -5 the same. So, I’ve made two fields. Here’s my formula: IF(AND({Team Bet}=“Win”), IF(AND({Home Score},{Away Score}), IF({Points Difference Bet}={Actual Points Difference},“3”,IF(OR({Actual Diff - Diff Bet}<=5,{Diff bet - Actual Diff}<=5,“2”,“0”))))) But, I get nothing. Can anyone spot my mistake? Please help.

Hi, I’m using the created time field in my database when I receive a new messages that are stored in the database. Is there a way to modify it to display it right that? Dec 23, 2019 8:23 pm Thanks!

I’m trying to calculate the next due date of something based on whether the occurrence is monthly or annually. I’ve got this: IF( {Past?}=“0”, {Start Date}, DATEADD({Start Date},1,‘years’ ) ) And I’ve got a formula that calculates the 1/0 for the {Past?} field. That seems to work so far in terms of figuring out the next due date, but only on an annual recurrene. But there’s another dropdown {Recurrence} that is either Monthly or Annually. What I’d like to do is say, “If recurrence = “Monthly”, add 1 month…if “Annually” add 1 year.” I’m sure it’s some kind of IF/AND/OR but I can’t seem to crack the logic on that.

Hello, I have a column with up to 4 values separated by commas. I am trying to take the values from each comma break point and place it in its own column. For example: usgs, aauw, abernathiethomas, admiralty CARTOGRAPHER_1 (Column) would display: usgs CARTOGRAPHER_2 (Column) would display: aauw CARTOGRAPHER_3 (Column) would display: abernathiethomas CARTOGRAPHER_4 (Column) would display: admiralty There will never be more than 4 columns / values /commas, but there will be a minimum of 1 value but not always 5 values. I looked into the functions left, right, mid, search, len but can’t seem to make sense on how to make them work together to achieve this if at all posible. Thanks for your help!

Hi, I would like to have a field (or at least the data) counting the number of times another field has changed. Eg calculating the number of times a task end date has been moved. Any idea ? Thank you Fred

Hi all, I would like to combine two text fields into one. Each field has several entries that are separated with a comma (e.g. in one row field 1 contains “Germany, EU, France” and field 2 contains “Italy, Austria”). When I combine them with {Field1} & {Field2} it deletes all the commas so that it looks like this: “GermanyEUFranceItalyAustria”. How can I keep the commas and just combine the field`s text exactly like it is? Tried already joinarray and putting using {Field1} & ", "& {Field2} but still the same effect. Thank you!

Hello, I need help with a formula. I’m trying to combine some address fields to create a full address but it adds an extra space when an Address doesn’t have a {Address 2} such as apartment number. So i wanted to create an IF statement to check to see if that field is blank. Here is what I have and it not working it add all the address components together expect of the {Address 2}. Any suggestions would really help `IF({Address 2} = BLANK(), {Address 1} & " " & {Address 2} &" " & {City} & " " & {State} & " " & {Zipcode}, {Address 1} & " " & {City} & " " & {State} & " " & {Zipcode})`

Is there a way to only have a formula to show in one cell? I have a smaller table where I want to pull totals from two other tables then total those results to display…ie wages less expenses…is there a way to calculate this in only one row to yield the result across 12 months displayed horizontally? Emma

Hi! I have an alarm rent business and I am building an ERP with Airtable to manage stock of devices, kits and availability. One thing I want to do, is to create unique ID reference for each kit (a kit have some devices) and for each device. This reference is a concatenate of words and numbers. For example, for kits I want to use the version and the number dependent on each version, and when the version change, the autonumber start again in 1. Ex: Kit Version A Kit number 0001 Kit ID: A0001 Kit Version A Kit number 0002 Kit ID 0002 … I want to automate this, when I manually change the version, the kit number (autonumber) reset automatically to 0001 again: Kit Version B Kit number 0001 Kit ID: B0001 So I have a column to name the version, and have other column to autonumber, but I need to make a formula to restart the autonumber each time that I manually change the version. Do you think is it possible? This is the example base: My example base

I have 2 tables, one with projects, one with people. In projects table I have a view with only the active projects. For each project, I define who works on them. In the people table I would like to see how many active projects each person works. There is the “Count” option and only show options for one view, but that doesn’t seem to list the Count to that view. Any possible solution you could think of?

Hey Guys, Trying to figure out how to leave a cell BLANK. I’m tracking soccer games. Here’s my formula: IF({Home Score} > {Away Score}, {Home Team} & " " & “Wins!!”,IF({Away Score}>{Home Score},{Away Team} & " " & “Wins!”,IF({Home Score}={Away Score},“Draw”))) The first part is ok. I get the right values for HOME / AWAY & DRAW. the problem is with future games, where the “score” cells are still empty, I get “Draw”. technically it’s true, but I’d like to leave the cell empty or insert a placeholder text instead. Thanks in advance.

Hi there, I have a table with a Name field and in that field (in different variations and location in the text string) is a series number as either 001 or 1. In a Series No. field I am including a formula that extracts just the series number. I am trying to find a solution to write a more elegant formula solution that does a FIND against the Name field and if it find a number from 1 to 100 then it will return that value in the Series No. field. Here is the formula I have at the moment but I want to avoid having to replicate this out from 1 to 100. I know there must be an easier way to do this but just don’t know how to go about it, especially in Airtable. IF(OR(FIND(“Series 001”,Name), FIND(“Series 1”,Name)),“001”, IF(OR(FIND(“Series 002”,Name), FIND(“Series 2”,Name)),“002”, IF(OR(FIND(“Series 003”,Name), FIND(“Series 3”,Name)),“003”, IF(OR(FIND(“Series 004”,Name), FIND(“Series 4”,Name)),“004”, IF(OR(FIND(“Series 005”,Name), FIND(“Series 5”,Name)),“005”))))) Any thoughts?

Hey guys, I’m fairly new to IF statements, and looking to create a really simple IF statement by saying: IF [collaborator = Meg], show “Design” I have a column of “Collaborators” (Meg, Rob, Sarah, David, Josh) and a column of departments (Design, Analytics, Research, Strategy, Development). If Meg is selected as a collaborator, show design in the department column, if rob is selected in collaborator column, show analytics in the department column … etc … Any help would be greatly appreciated .

I have a table with a Lookup field that returns a date from a linked record. I’ve confirmed that the Lookup field contains valid date values. The MONTH() and YEAR() formulas work as expected with the Lookup field. But the DAY() formula only returns an “ERROR!” message for each record. Any suggestions?

I’m trying to gather information from employees about what teams they are in and how many hours they are available to spend on them that week. I’m using a form to collect the names of the teams using a link to another spreadsheet where they can select from a list of all the teams. They then have to input the number of hours they have available to spend on that team further down. I wanted to add dependencies so that these would only show once you have selected a team but that’s not possible so I am trying to find out if I can select all of the teams they are in by checking if the hours they have inputted for a team are more than 0. Any ideas would be greatly helpful thanks :slightly_smiling_face:

I’m trying to set some automation for warranty dates that if there is nothing selected it leaves it blank. But if the warranty drop down is selected it will read whats in the Warranty Start Days and apply the correct length of time to the date for the expiration date. Other than googling I don’t have much experience with coding. Sorry. Thanks for any guidance IF(Warranty=BLANK(),BLANK(), IF(Warranty= 1 Year), DATEADD({Warranty Start Date}, 365, "day") IF(Warranty= 2 year), DATEADD({Warranty Start Date}, 730, "day") IF(Warranty= 3 Year), DATEADD({Warranty Start Date}, 1095, "day"))

I am trying to extract an ID number from a URL field. The number is at the end of the URL. I have tried MID, RIGHT & LEFT but no luck. The formula will need to: get the number only Ignore other numbers in the URL Get the number right of the last ‘-’ Ignore a ‘/’ if there is one at the end Example data: https://airtable.com/shrM2cPJoq05OMoom Example URLs: ‘https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/long-name-of-workshop-here-could-be-very-long-48271930495|48271930495’ ‘https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/shorter-name-859045958274|859045958274’ ‘https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/medium-length-name-95827485904/|95827485904/’

Hey guys, I made the following formula on Google Sheets: =LOOKUP(WEEKDAY(J2),B1:H1,B2:H2) Where J2 has the =Today() function, B1:H1 tells the function what day of the week it holds and B2:H2 what its operating hours. I am looking to use the lookcup function on Airtable, and depending on =today() date find out from the spreadsheet a respective operating hour of a certain restaurant. Thanks.

I am using the program to help me in the production of a play, and thus far its great. I have one thing that I want to do with the program that I have not been able to figure out and I was wondering if anyone had any advice. A quick background: I have a “Company” table with casting that includes Actors and Roles. Two other tables (Songs and Scenes) are linked to “Company” where I select roles which are in either the “Song” or the “Scene”. I also have a Lookup Column on these tables so that my Actors appear in those tables as well. I would love to build a “Daily Call Table” from this and I was wondering if it is possible to create a Lookup column that can contain values from Actors in all three tables (“Company” “Songs” and “Scenes”). This would enable me to input actors into one column by selecting them individually (“Company”) or by group (“Scene” and “Song”) Or to create three Lookup columns that I can combine (and then hide the original columns). Thanks everyone

I am trying to use the CONCATENATE Function to create a primary field entry that returns something that looks like: Lot-123b234 [Product Variety] Seems pretty straightforward, but, the resulting entries come back with variable text formatting that seems to be related to the syntax of the text in one of the fields I am using. For instance: (This is good) --> if a particular entry in a text field being concatenated is Product Variety it works fine, (This is bad) --> if a particular entry happens to have a Variety, Product syntax, the CONCATENATE Function result always shows “Variety, Product” (with the quotation marks magically appearing instead of just showing Variety, Product as I want it to) What am I doing wrong? How can I convince the computer not to add quotation marks where I have not typed them myself? I need to retain the flexibility of the concatenated field to have text entries with both types of syntax and I don’t want the CONCATENATE Formula result to add quotation m

Is there a way to set column 2’s values to be a random value from Column 1? Let’s say I have 5 records. There are 5 values in Column 1. I would like to pick a random value from Column 1 and set that as a value for each record on Column 2.

Hi there - I’m trying to create a formula that will remove the double quotes and comma from the middle of a string, and although it works on one field, it doesn’t work on another. IF(LEFT({Text}, 1)=’"’, MID({Text},3, LEN({Text})-2), {Text}) That works for one field, but not another. What am I getting wrong, or is there another, better way? Thanks!

I use the ARRAYUNIQUE formula often. It works great with text, but not well with numbers. I am failing to pull a unique value that is found within a cell/column. For example, if a cell contains “Tuesday, Tuesday, Tuesday,” I can use the ARRAYUNIQUE formula in a new column to show only “Tuesday” However, I cannot get the same to work in a number format. Any suggestions? I am using a lookup based on a field and it is pulling multiple numbers that are not unique.