Formulas

Greetings! I am reaching out for assistance with a formula field (admittedly not my strong suit!). I am tasked with tracking a declining balance fund used to pay for event expenditures. I have the following columns: item, estimated expense, actual expense, fiscal year. Ideally there would be two additional formula fields that would subtract each new expense from the starting balance. As expenses are added, I would be able to see the declining balance. My failed attempt: SUM(5000.00-{actual expense}). It appeared to be working for the first entry I made, but then went haywire when new entries were added to the table. Any assistance would be greatly appreciate.

Hey there, I am a total Airtable rookie and I am wondering how I create a formula for the following case: I want to create a field that has a marked checkbox when the record is active. The record is active when the date in the field ‘Move out’ is today or less than today. Thanks for your help! Best, Didi

I’ve got a column that automatically generates our suggested retail price (based on labor, materials, etc.). I want to add a column that rounds that number (up or down) to the nearest 5.99 or 9.99. So if it calculates the suggested retail is $10.25, I want there to be a second column that says $9.99. If it suggests $14.87, the other column says $15.99 etc.

Hi all, I’m currently struggling with a thorny Airtable formula issue. I think I need to be considering using a nested IF statement or a SWITCH formula, but i’m not 100% convinced that either will work. Here’s my problem statement… I need to analyse the outputs of five columns, each of which is populated by a unique, formula-generated text value. Based on different combinations of these text values, I need to display a different summary sentence. I thought that I could solve this issue by using the following nested IF statement… IF({Biz Rules Provided Summary} = “Incomplete”,“Awaiting Business Rules”, IF({Analysis Complete Summary}) = “Analysis Incomplete”, “Awaiting Analysis”, IF({Screen Designed Summary}) = “Design Incomplete”,“Awaiting Screen Design”, IF({Developed Summary}) = “Dev Incomplete”,“Development Incomplete”, IF({Function Configured}) = “Config Incomplete”,“Awaiting Configuration”,“Function Configured”))))) However, thi

Am I doing something wrong here? For decimal values inside a string, “0.5 some text” or “12.1 some text”, when I use, Value(left(0.5),4), I do not receive the decimal value. It will return the first integer of number. Is there a different want to return the decimal number found on the left most side of the string as mentioned above? J

I was wondering if someone can assist with the following. I’m trying to create an “If” formula for my “Previous Job #” column Depending on the “Type” I will be either a “capital” or “service” If service then the value is “Not applicable” and if Capital then I have an ID number to enter I understand the first portion, but I don’t get how to get it to let me enter my own values if it’s not a “service” IF(Type = “Service”, “Not Applicable”)

Ok, so I have a total column in which I have Sum()ed many column fields in it, to be used as a Rollup column on another table. it looks like this: SUM({5" }+{6" }+{DS$}+{Elb }+{IN/M }+{O/M }+{Endcaps }+{H/H }+{Wedg}+{Off$}+{B/P$}+{D/E$}+{Screw$}+{12" Gh }+{14" Gh }+{18" Gh }+{Perf }+{IN/C }+{O/C }+{GH Endcaps }+{Diverters }+{Brackets }+{MicroScreen }+{EvN Flo }+{MidWest }+{Sofit Vent$}) Now this formula works, but I had to HAND ENTER every column name in the formula. Is there a way to perhaps Right click and drag or ctrl click or something to select what columns I want to put into the formula? Similar to what I would have done in Excel? Anything to speed up the formula making in the future. It took

Hi, I am working to send my inventory to amazon listing, is there any way airtable works directly with the seller central? Moreover, I have to send images for each product in url form individual image link, is there any way I can separate images link when downloading the CSV format of the airtable?

I am looking for a way to use the REPLACE() formula function to replace values in a Multi-select column with different values on a new column. For example: The original column contains column Type of question with multi-select values bug-report, enhancement. Can we create a new column called Type of question (new) with the corresponding new values: bug-report-new and enhancement-new?

I am looking to create a database to automatically grade multiple choice exams. I have one sheet with the correct grades and then one sheet with the student grades. There are a couple of ways to do it with Excel - the easiest is to create an extra grading sheet that uses a Boolean countif to check the student’s answers against the correct answers cell by cell and add 1 to all the cells that are correct [COUNTIF(Student!E5, Correct!E$2)]. Is there any way to set up something similar with Airtable?

Hi again, Trying to write an IF statement for a cost catagory. This is what I have now. {12" GH} * 25.0 BUT I would like it to say: IF ({12" GH} is a multiple of 4, * 125, (Roundup ({12" GH}) * 25))) If the field is NOT a multiple of 4, I’d like it to round UP the field to the nearest whole integer. How would I write that? Thank you!

Hi, I’m trying to create a column that will calculate commission on the Sales Price of a job for me, but only if the Commission checkbox is checked. But I can’t get it to work! Here is what I have: IF({Commission?} = 1, SUM({Paid (Sold)})*.1 , 0) What did I do wrong? All it returns are $0.00 even if I have a Checkbox marked! Thank you for your help!

Hi, I’d like to create a calendar in date format ie like a wall calendar similar to what you can do in excel. How do I do this please?

How do I sum the values in a numeric field?

Hey Airtable Community, I have a “Forecast” table in Airtable that I’m using to track various line item costs of a particular project. Each row has the following basic fields: Spend Description, Planned Spend, Start Date, End Date, Q1, Q2, Q3, Q4. I’d like to be able to use a formula to calculate planned spend by quarter… essentially place line item costs into the Q1, Q2, Q3 and Q4 fields. I’m new to formulas overall, particularly ones involving dates. I thought I could work around my own limitations by creating a “Spend Month” Multi-Select field, selecting the spend months for each line item, (for example January, February, March) and using the below formula to calculate quarterly spend. In a field called “Q1” I’m using the formula: IF(OR({Spend Month}=“January”,{Spend Month}=“February”,{Spend Month}=“March”),{Planned Spend}) However, I’m running into several issues. The most pressing issue is that there are some costs that span multiple q

After solving an earlier query about setting my formula and linking a client and rates table I now need to create a column which averages out my earnings from clients. Should this be in my clients table or do I need to create a separate table for this? I now have records with the numbers of sessions for each client and total earnings for each client - all in my clients table - so where and how should my average income per client calculation go please? Thanks in advance Liz

I am trying to calculate the number of months to an 18th birthday. I start with the Date of Birth and add 18 years to that. I format that date so that I get DD/MM/YYYY and not the American MM/DD/YYYY. That works fine. Now I use the following formula in the next column: DATETIME_DIFF({18th Birthday},TODAY(),‘months’). I get a result (3 months instead of 5) which indicates that it is using (In think) the American date and reading the month and year backwards. Is there anyway around this?

Is there a way to use hard coded dates in a date calculation e.g. Date Diff(1/1/2019,Today()). I can get the right calculation if both dates are in fields but the moment put in a hard coded date it doesn’t work. Any ideas?

I’m trying to generate a URL for each record by inserting record details (source, signup email address, and referrer email address) so that I can pass and track our signup forms. Does anyone know how I would do this properly with a formula? examplesite.typeformdotcom/to/nk19Yv?source=xxxxx&signup_email_address=xxxxx&referrer_email_address=xxxxx

Trying to set 1st field as a formula with IF statement. I currently have: Bill & " - " & DATETIME_FORMAT({Due Date}, “ll”) I have another table for bills paid on irregular date (non due date). Without the Due Date being filled in I get an Error in the formula. I’d like to have the formula show IF Due Date Empty, date paid Thank you.

I am building a table of all elected offices in my county. I have the term of office, 2, 4, 6 years (so far no others) but I want to have a calculated field for the next year an office is up for election. So, today, I want the record for PRESIDENT so show the next election is 2020. On 1/1/2021, I want it to show 2024. Can anyone advise me on this one? Thanks

I’m sure that I’m making this more difficult than it needs to be, and I keep ALMOST finding what I’m looking for by searching this forum, but then not quite getting there. I’m hoping someone can help me work this out. I have a base that I use to track commissions paid to sales agents. Sales agent commission rates change over time - they can adjust up or down, based on a sales volume formula. The sales volume formula is complex enough that I’m not even worried about integrating that element. But the tricky part is that when a new sale is entered by the sales agent, I want the commission rate to be automatically generated at whatever their current rate is. So … I have an Agents table, which includes a host of information about each agent, including their commission rate. I set up another table, called Commission Rate History. It’s linked to the Agents table. Commission Rate History includes the following fields: Agent Commission Rate Change Date

I’ve been searching throughout the forums but couldn’t find the answer to this question. I currently have an “Interactions” table where I capture the date of the interaction and link it to a contact record in the “Contacts” table. I also have a field in the Interactions table where I select the type of interaction e.g. Meeting, Phone Call, Email, Task. What I would like to do in the “Contacts” table is create a view to capture servicing items. One of those is to capture the last date I held a meeting with a specific contact. Is there a way I could create a field in the “Contacts” table to automatically pull the last date I had a meeting with that contact from the interactions table? I can easily pull the last interaction date with the contact using a rollup field with the formula Max(Values) but I would like to specify interactions that are of the Meeting type only so it doesn’t pull the other types such as Phone Calls, Emails etc.

Not sure how to title this, too early to think of the proper name - but this is what I’m trying to accomplish and I can get one percent to work but the others fill in with Error or NaN. When Gross Profit percent is: 0%: Formula is: 0% gross profit: 1-15% formula reads: 1-15% 16-25%… 26-45%… and so on up to 100% Trying to group all gross profits based on the percent for graphing purposes.

Hi all, When I try to use the formula If({LINKED FIELD} !=BLANK(),Duration,BLANK()) Explanation: the duration of a certain activity is put in a seperate (new) column. It only will fill if the LINKED FIELD is empty. For some reason it just doesn’t work. the != combination seems to be ignored. The duration is filled regardless of the content of the LINKED FIELD. What am I doing wrong? Regards, André