Formulas

I have a lookup field. Sometimes it has one name in it: John Doe Sometimes it has two names in it: John Doe Jane Smith It will never have more than four words. I want to use a formula to output their first names only, so that the new field reads: John (if only one person) or John & Jane (if two people). Is this at all possible? I know you can do LEFT({Names},SEARCH(" ",{Names})-1) to get John, but I’m not sure how to tweak it to get John & Jane.

I’m trying to create a date column that includes the day of the week. I used the DATETIME_FORMAT formula, but it only correctly translates the date some of the time. In a number of cases it subtracts a week or more from the date column I’m referencing, which I hope to eventually hide. Any idea what’s going wrong? Here’s the formula I used: DATETIME_FORMAT({Go Live Date}, ‘dddd, MMMM do, YYYY’)

Hey! I´m new in this and also not much of a nerd :slightly_smiling_face: I’m trying to create a database for recording athletes test results. I have one table for athletes and another for results. I want to determine the age of Athlete at the time of the test. In “results” table I have a testing day field The “age at testing day” field should show the age in years or if possible the years + months (example 13 years 4 months) I´m grateful for all the help

Hi, I have had a lot of success using formulas in the past, but I am stumped on how to properly format the following: I have three columns: Email, Phone, and Wants Follow Up? I have been stumped on making a formula where IF the Email cell OR the Phone number cell is filled out (AKA not blank), then the output will be a YES in the Wants Follow Up? cell. I know I must be making an simple mistake, because the formulas I have tried only give a YES output if both the Phone and Email cells are filled out, not either-or. The actual OR formula as shown on the Airtable help section just outputs a 1, but I want YES text to be shown, not a 1. What am I not doing correctly? Thanks!

Hi everyone, I’ve been trying and searching for hours, but can’t seem to find a solution. My Events Database should be giving out the information of which Member of my group has attended which Event and in return also the information which Event was attended by which Member. So far so easy, but I get the attendance lists in a very large complicated table and it is a hustle to put the names in manually for every new event. Is there any way, that I can link an event to a new table which contains all the names attending and make it pull them so they can be compared with the third Members table? Any help appreciated! Thank You Thomas

I’m fairly new to Airtable and very new to formulas in Airtable. I have a table to track leads. In that table, I have a field for status titled “Converted Lead?”. The converted lead field contains the drop down choices yes, no and not yet. Is there a way to see lead conversion percentage - a formula that will add the No’s and the Not yet’s and then divide them by the yes’s to get our conversion percentage?

Hello I’ve four columns in a single one table, date de l’échange date de relance date manuelle prévue relance I would find a formula who fill my “date de relance” field with : if “relance” is = “pas d’action” , fields in “date de relance” will be filled by “ok” if “date manuelle prévue” is not empty, fields in “date de relance” must returns “date manuelle prévue”, with format ‘D/M/YYYY’ if not one of the 2 previous, fields in “date de relance” must returns “date de l’échange + 12 days” with format ‘D/M/YYYY’. I’ve tried this formula : IF(relance=“pas d’action”,“ok”,IF({date manuelle prévue}!=BLANK(),DATETIME_FORMAT({date manuelle prévue},‘D/M/YYYY’), DATEADD({date de l’échange},8,‘days’))) But i’ve a #Error ! “ok” is well returned , it’s working “date manuelle prévue”, is well returned with the good format ‘D/M/YYYY’

Hi, Newbie here and not good at code, hope you can help. I have 2 tables, there is a lot more to the tables that is not relevant so I have presented a simplified version just to explain what i need. 1st table has 2 columns a list of containers in the 1st and how much is in each container in the 2nd 2nd table has 3 columns, in the 2nd column i can select multiple containers from the 1st table in a single box, 3rd column i want it to display the total contents of the selected containers in the previous box. example Table 1 1 cont1 50L 2 cont2 175L 3 cont3 25L 4 cont4 50L example Table 2 1,3 75L 2,4 125L Hope this makes sense Cheers Vince

Hello, I am trying to create a table for our sales employees rolling bonus program. I have the main bones built, but I am struggling in one area. I need a way to add values in a compound manner. Example: January they reach bonus and earn $500 February they reach the bonus. They would earn $500 from January + their February bonus (Example $500 + $500) March they reach the bonus. They would earn $500 from January + February bonus + March bonus I need to use the rolling values of these for their commission statements. Does anyone have any suggestions for a formula? Thank you kindly :slightly_smiling_face:

hello everyone! i have this table that clocks in and clocks out people at work, but i would like that it would subtract 30 minutes(lunchbreak) so the person would clock-in then later clock-out and at clockout would subtract -30mins this is what i currently have: Přihlášen = clockin in Odhlásit = clock out . IF( AND(NOT({Přihlášen}), NOT({Odhlásit})), “0”, IF( {Odhlásit}, ROUND( DATETIME_DIFF({Odhlásit}, {Přihlášen}, ‘hours’), 60 ) & " hrs " & ROUND( MOD( DATETIME_DIFF({Odhlásit}, {Přihlášen}, ‘minutes’), 60 ), 0 ) & " min" , ROUND( DATETIME_DIFF( NOW(), {Přihlášen}, ‘hours’), 0) & " hrs " & ROUND( MOD( DATETIME_DIFF( NOW(), {Přihlášen}, ‘minutes’), 60), 0) & " min" ) ) any help would be apreciated, thank you.

Hi all, I’m trying to create a formula in a field that will take the value from one of two fields, whichever is not empty. One field is a multi-select, and the other a lookup. In essence this is quite simple for the multi-select field and the rollup field records (that are standalone strings), given the following formula: IF({Multi-select field}, {Multi-select field}) & IF({Rollup field},{Rollup field}) However, if a primary key in this table is linked to more than one linked record that the rollup field is referencing, then the rollup field outputs each of their associated rollup records separated by a comma. Thus, if the same above formula applies, I get an output this removes the comma and essentially combines all these rollup values into one long string. To address this, and to copy exactly how the values in the rollup field look (no comma removal), I nested a substitute formula to add any commas back in for when my second IF s

I am exporting events from Airtable base into a web calendar via CSV. The web calendar requires that date and time be imported as separate fields. To create a “date-only” field in Airtable, I simply duplicated the Airtable Date/Time field and turned off time. Done. Now I need a way to create a separate “time-only” field in Airtable. Can someone recommend a formula that extracts the time from an Airtable Date/Time field? Converting it to text would be fine. For example, converting “4/14/2019 1:00pm” to “1:00pm”. Thanks for your help

I’m a bit of a newbie and my apologies if this covered elsewhere, I just can’t seem to find the right answer. I have this formula below to calculate the total weight/value based on calculations below. I am trying to round up the total to the next 1.5kg because the product comes in tins of 1.5kg. So I need to calculate: IF(Fumigant=“FUMITOXIN (ALP)”,ROUNDUP(({H1 vol}Dosage3.0/1000/1.5)*1.5))) H1 Volume= 5314 * Dosage=1.0 3.0/1000/1.51.5 at the moment it’s equaling 16kg and it should be 16.5 How do i get it to display the .5? Formatting has been set to Decimal 1.00 16.5kg / 1.5kg = 11 TINS I hope I’m making sense

Hi Friends I have date data that is being presented to me in a YYYYMMDD format. I am putting that in one column. I would like to create a formula column to convert that unstructured date column to a proper date format. Can anyone suggest the composition of that formula. I have tried a few things but nothing is working.

Hi there I’d like to use the datetime_diff() function to compare a date in the {Date} column of each record to a fixed date: 29 March 2019. I can’t seem to figure out the syntax to insert that fixed date into the formula: datetime_diff({Date}, [what syntax to make 2019-03-29 a datetime?], ‘days’} Thanks Travis

How would I subtract a duration from the total number of hours in the day? For example, if I have a task that takes 6 hours, I’d like to set up a field that shows how many hours are left in the work day. I’ve tried a few things but keep getting errors. Thanks!

Hello Everyone, I’m very new with AirTable and I have been struggling with this formula. I have these 3 different columns: 1) Lead Count, 2) Opportunity Count 3) Total Amount ($). I’m creating a formula to select the Account Status based on these three columns in this way: If Lead Count = 0 --> “Cold” If Lead Count = 1 --> “Aware” If Lead Count >1 --> “Qualified” OR If Opportunity Count >0 --> Opportunity (regardless of Lead Count) If Total Amount ($) > 0 --> Customer (regardless of anything else) How can I put this into a formula?

I have been attempting to copy and paste a design into an email. It seems to be working beautifully, but it goes to the top of the email and will not move. I know this is not the way this is intended to work, but I am trying to duplicate and replace a portion of our workflow, where we copy and paste promotional info straight into an email and send. Again, it looks like it may work, but there seems to be some kind of coding that take it straight to the top (and in front of) the page and will not move. Does anyone know how to stop this from happening? I’ve tried it in various email apps and they all do the same. Please advise.

Hello Airtablers, I am new to Airtable and am working through connecting the base I designed to my Gmail account. I’m currently trying to determine how to write a search formula that will identify if the subject of an email contains a Contact Name. (This is as a part of the “Find or Create Record” zap.) So what I’m going for is, if I receive an email with subject “Hello from Jane Doe!”, when Zapier runs that against existing Contact Names, they ID that yes, in fact, I do already have a record for Jane Doe, or no, I don’t have a record for Jane Doe, and one is automatically created. Currently, the Search By Field and Search Value fields result in the creation of a “Hello from Jane Doe!” record, which I expected. The problem is that, as a novice, I can’t seem to identify the function(s) or operator(s) that might get me the result I’m going for. The good news is my workplace is a small one, so not finding a solution won’t be the end of the world. The bad new

Hi! I have a base where I register exam questions. I class them by Subject (linked table field); I would like a formula that enumerates them by subject, for example: Pharmacology 1 Pharmacology 2 Development 1 …and so forth. Can it be done? Thanks in advance!

Hi, Here’s the scenario: I have a row with a product. I want an auto generated number to assign to that product. I want to then duplicate that row, but know that it is a duplicate of another row. So - Product 001.1 gets duplicated, I want the duplicate to then show Product 001.2 If I create a new product (not duplicating), then that product would be Product 002.1, and so on. Any ideas?

Here’s the idea: I want to automatically fill a record’s Primary Field in TableA with a title that is a combination of the “Guest Name” from the same table AND the “Show Code” from TableB, a different table in the same base. However, the “Show Code” from TableB should be automatically determined by the “Show Name” also in TableB that is referenced in TableA’s linked field. I feel like there most be an If, and, then something or other in there. EXAMPLE FIELDS: TableB Fields SHOW NAME - “Command of Desserts” SHOW CODE - “COD” TableA Fields: PRIMARY FIELD - “COD: Harry Morgan” SHOW NAME - Linked to TableB’s Show Name Please help me clarify my convoluted question and thanks for ignoring my ignorance . :grinning_face_with_sweat: Best, Chris

I’m trying to figure out how to create a column that lists the last date that a particular person was contacted. Right now, I have two tables: one is a list of contacts and another is a list of messages to that contact (with dates). I created a lookup table that populates a field “last contacted” by the time stamp on the message associated with that person as lookup to a linked field. Here’s the problem: the field lists every single date that the person was contacted, not the last time the person was contacted. How would I filter the column to only show the most recent date? Or, some other work around that only takes the most recent time stamp associated with a linked record? thanks

So I am trying to create a formula that would help me out w/ some grammar issues in my Page Designer. Basically, if there is a contact in the secondary contact field named Gina Malone, I want the function to populate as “and Gina.” If the secondary contact field is blank I want the function field to remain blank. The below function does a great job of producing what I need when there is a contact in the secondary contact field, but always populates as “and” when secondary contact is blank. IF({Secondary Contact}!=BLANK(), "and “) & LEFT({Secondary Contact}, SEARCH(” ", {Secondary Contact})-1)

I am trying to do a date diff formula and i need help. Lets say it has to do with aging. Products a for a 1 week, product b for 2, etc. If I have product type in column “Product” and start date in “last active”. I need “aged” column to look at “product” to get the type know how many weeks it needs to age and do a date diff from “last active” to tell me either “within min time” or “time met”. Any ideas?