Formulas

Hi Community!I would like generate with a formula a random hex color code for each new record in a database. How can I do that?Thank you for your help!Stefan

Hey,Something super basic to do in any excel, python script etc. but how to get in in Airtable?I want to create some kind of ID for each customer. First customer has number 900100, and each new one (this is a child table) should get the number +100, so 900100, 900200 etc.Is there any way to do so? (ps autonumber is not an option as you can edit it, if something goes wrong and you add a row by accident it ruins the sequence)

How do I concatenate these two fields so they show values with not so many digits. I would like to show 2 decimal digits. 

I'm new, so apologies for any blatant errors. I'm trying to create a SKU in the table primary field using the SWITCH function based on other fields in the table. My initial try included a lengthy list of colors (all unique) and the 5-letter results (not unique) for output, and the formula failed to even load. Removing the color section, I was able to generate the appropriate results based on the other columns. However, after struggling with the color field and failing, I reset the formula to the original (no color), and now get #ERROR!. I cleaned up and sorted the color entries to perfectly match the fields, and now get #ERROR!, which is progress, I guess, as at least the formula loaded.Next, I added a lookup field for the color code I want in this table and changed the color SWITCH section to reference the lookup field, but I still get #ERROR!. Here's my new formula:SWITCH({Product Type},"Apparel", "APP","Accessories", "ACC","Blankets

Looking for some help regarding a formula. Here's a little context of what I am trying to do. I am working on importing my teams marketing budget plans into Airtable, and so far everything is working well. As a final step, and in order to avoid have two column with repeated numbers for Actual Variance to Budge and Planned Variance to Budget, I wanted to create a formula combining the two numbers and then group by that column (and hide it), so that it is always present but it doesn't need to be repeated. The look that I am going for is ($ x,xxx,xxx.xx | $ x,xxx,xxx.xx)I ran into the same issue that I found a lot of people here have faced. Once I use the currency values in a text formula, I automatically lose the "$" symbol and the number separators. The symbol (even with my limited knowledge) is easy to put back, but the separators were not. I found this solution in the forums. I can't take any credit for it because I simply do not understand it, but it

I have a rollup cell that is pulling a range of data from another sheet.  Is there a way to:1) Format these so it's easier to read : MM/DD/YY-MM/DD/YY 2) Format these so I can create a calendar view that would show these dates in a row on the calendar?Thanks!!

I am a beginner and wanted to make a few custom changes through formula’s and other customisation’s. I need help with the two doubts below. Also take reference from the two photos. 1. How do I setup the “Hours” formula field such that even if its 10 mins more than a perfect hour it will round it off to 2 hrs and so on for any more amount of time.2. In the first photo, is it possible for the “End Time” to solely be a time field Instead of Date and Time.Would be really helpful I could get some solid advice on this!

Per day, the employee works 8 hours and can be distributed in one or more projects (tasks) in this period. If he worked on only one project it would be 8 hours allocated to the project (easy), however if he worked on two projects it would be 4 hours each and so on. I need to generate a report of each person’s allocated hours by project. The challenge is that the tasks from different projects overlap for a period of days and I don’t know how to evenly subdivide those 8 hours by the amount of overlapping tasks.

Apologies in advance if this was answered elsewhere, I did try to find it.I have a lookup cell that is pulling information from another sheet.  In that other sheet, the cells all share an attribute called “Daily Flow.” I’m wondering if there’s a way for me to format this cell so that if there are duplicates, (like you see “An insect’s world” is shown multiple times), that it only lists it once?Thanks for the help!

I have been using this formula, and it works: IF({Company (from Distribution Locations) (from Invoice 2)}="Key Fresh 8890",{Cost *1 (from Products 2)}, IF({Company (from Distribution Locations) (from Invoice 2)}="Marathon 16050", {Cost *4 (from Products 3)}, IF({Company (from Distribution Locations) (from Invoice 2)}="Chevron 10255", {Cost *5 (from Products 4)},IF({Company (from Distribution Locations) (from Invoice 2)}="Chevron 3251", {Cost *2 (from Products 5)}, IF({Company (from Distribution Locations) (from Invoice 2)}="Marathon 5", {Cost *2 (from Products 5)},{Cost (from Products 2) 2}))))) Now I want to add another nested IF; however, with "and," it is not working for me. I want to include the following: if(AND({Company (from Distribution Locations) (from Invoice 2)}="Chevron 3100",{Date (from Invoice)}<"03/19/2024"), {Cost *4 (from Products 3)}, {Cost (from Products 2) 2}) When I add this last

I have a formula in the primary field of my table that combines a Date/time and the name of the brand in the appointment.  Formula I am using: DATETIME_FORMAT({Appointment Time},'MM/DD, H:MM A')&" - "&Brand results are randomly adding 2, 4 and 6 minutes to the time format, ex:04/09, 9:04 AM - Gregory(appointment time is 9:00 am in the calendar column) I'm lost, what am I not specifying that would prevent this? Thanks!

Im trying to make a task management system, where task 1 would have multiple subtasks and subtasks would have their own subtasks etc. The issue i'm having is im trying to make a function where if a task has no "task parent", then the "Task Tier" would be 0. If the "Task Parent" has a "Task Parent" of its own, to start counting how many steps up the tree it had to go to find no value, and count how many steps it took. Any other way that would not force me to have additional tables, or limit the number of Task Tiers, would still be fine Thanks in advance

Can anyone recommend an Airtable Consultant, preferably in the UK, who can help me with some fairly simple formulas which for some reason, I cant work out why, are not working and/or producing missing data in some rows. I feel very scrooge-like and miserly saying this, but its the reality: I work for a charity so they cannot be too expensive. But I would be very grateful if somebody could help me. I have designed a multi-layered survey that evaluates the diffferent well-being dimensions of our clients and if I cant get it working soon I fear my project will be binned and I will be devastated as I've already done a lot of research and learnt airtable especially from scratch just do this- plus I love Airtable. So if somebody could help me that would be brilliant. 

I have a table "Products" and a table "Artworks". The Product table has a lookup field to the Artworks table. In this lookup field, I assigned multiple Artworks to each Product (e.g. "Product 1" has assigned "Artwork A", "Artwork B", "Artwork C", and "Artwork D").Product 1 can only go into production once all Artworks assigned to Product 1 have approval status "Approved".In the Products table, I added a rollup field that shows the records from the "Approval Status" field from the "Artworks" table. By default, the values appear like this in the rollup field: "Not submitted, not submitted, Approval pending, Approved"Instead of listing all the records in the rollup field, I want the rollup field to show:IF all records = "Approved": output "ALL ARTWORKS APPROVED"ELSE: output "APPROVAL PENDING"or alternatively:IF any record is not = "Approved": output "APPROVAL PENDING"ELSE: output "ALL ARTWORKS APPROVED"

hi there,I am trying to create a nested IF that checks if four cells are blank, and if they're not, returns the value that's there.When I use the below formula, it only ever checks the first IF, and it's driving me nuts!Can anyone help? I want it to return BLANK if there are no matches. IF( ArtSaleChecker2!=BLANK(), ArtSaleChecker2, IF( PromSaleChecker2!=BLANK(), PromSaleChecker2, IF(OtherSaleChecker2!=BLANK(), OtherSaleChecker2, IF(GenSaleChecker2!=BLANK(), GenSaleChecker2, BLANK() ) ) ) )  

Hi, as a result of my trying to execute a solution from previous post, I created a formula to combine name fields. IT cannot figure out what aim doing wrong. IT seems perfectly logical to me. But it does not work. I have posted the formula and a screenshot of the data below.The data is First Name, Last Name, SP First Name, SP Last Name. First Name and Last Name are short text fields. SP First Name and SP Last Name are Lookup fields.Thanks, ScottTRIM( {First Name} & IF({Last Name} != {SP Last Name}), " " & {Last Name} & " and " & {SP First Name} &" " & {SP Last Name}, IF({Last Name} = {SP Last Name}), " & " {SP First Name} & " " & {Last Name} )   

Hi all, I'm pretty useless with formulae generally and just wondering if anyone can help with this.I'm trying to generate a formula field that is based on a source date. The formula is to calculate 8 months + 23 days from the source date (i.e the 23rd day of the 9th month after my source date).I also want to include an "If" being; If field A is populated, then field C should be the 23rd day of the 9th month after field B. Does this make sense?Below is what I have but depending on whether the source field has 28, 30 or 31 days, I am getting variable dates.IF({Next Accounts Reqd},DATEADD(DATEADD({Next Accounts Reqd},8,'month'),23,'day'))

Hi! I'm trying to set up an inventory system that takes into account materials used for each of our products. On my products table, I have a column for materials and one for finished goods. I've set it up so that when we assemble a product, the materials qty decreases and the finished goods qty increases. This seemed to work well until I ran into this issue:We make notebooks, so the raw materials are the covers. So when we make say, notebook A, notebook A covers would get deducted, when we make notebook B, B covers are deducted and so on. The problem is we also make 3-packs, with one of each notebook A, B and C. These sets are a different product, BUT they use the same raw material (covers) as the single notebooks. I can't seem to figure out how to make it so when we assemble a 3-pack, it automatically deducts one of each cover for A, B, and C. We have several 3-pack designs too, which further complicates it. Any help is very welcome! 

Hey everyone, I had a quick question to see if this is possible. I view my projects in a timeline view that is grouped by what phase the projects are in. The top group are projects that are coming up, but sometimes I dont have a date for an upcoming project aka I dont see the project in my timeline view. I dont want to forget about possible projects that are coming up with no specified date and was wondering is there like some sort of an option with airtable timeline view to have records that dont have a date show up under the group name on the left bar or somewhere where I can remember like ohhhh right that needs to be scheduled? Thank you for any help!

Hello - we use a formula field to create unique & automated "Activity Titles" for records.Our current formula pulls from various fields:Program (multi select)City (linked field)Type (single select)Date (date)Current formula is: Program & " - " & City & " " & {Type} & (" ") & " (" & (DATETIME_FORMAT(Date,'YYYY/MM/DD')) & ")"This results in an Activity Title that looks like: Corporate Event - Philadelphia Webinar (2024-03-21)The problem we've run into is that some of our Activities are with multiple cities - 30+.So when the formula pulls into those Cities into the title, the title then becomes unusably long - Corporate Event - Philadelphia, New York, San Francisco, Pittsburgh, Buffalo, Winchester, Miami, San Diego, P

Hi AllI am looking for a formula to extract project status from a string with multiple response column. Criteria is IF "Market Single" is appear anywhere in the "Updated Status", then return as the 1st word in that particular string. Example below: the output I am looking for in "Final Status" is:- Row 1: Ongoing (Albania in Market single, Ongoing being the first word in the string)- Row 2: Hold (Andorra in Market single, Hold being the first word in the string)- Row 3: Cancelled (Antigua in Market single, Cancelled being the first word in the string)Currently this is the formula I have - and it returns all three response as Ongoing - which is not what I am looking for: IF(  FIND({Market single}

Hey all! I'm back with a new issue that I'm hoping won't be too hard to solve but I can't seem to find the solution myself. I have two fields that I need to combine. Field 1 contains a variable, such as GKM3, GKM5, etc. Field 2 contains comma-separated values like L16, L17, L18. I have been trying to find a formula to combine the value of Field 1 with each of the values of Field 2. So the output in the 3rd field would be GKM4L17, GKM4L17, GKM4L18. Unfortunately, when I try a concatenate or substitute function, it only appends the Field 1 value onto the first value in the list, like in Field 3.  I would really appreciate any help! 

Hi there, I would like to use a formula in the primary key column of an airtable data set to create a unique ID, or autonumber, but i want that number to recalculate when i insert a new row anywhere in the master data set so that the ordering is retained. if you use the autonumber field type, it will create the record using the next available number, then all my views start to loose the ordering i want.is there a way to write a formula that will re-calcuate the primary key column to retain the existing order, with the new record in place.  For example: 1 TestA2 TestB3TestC If i insert a row between TestB and TestC, the primary key would show as follows:1 TestA2TestB3Testnew record4TestC 

I'm trying to write a formula to remove the "➟" if the preceeding field is empty.Current Formula:Origin& " ➟ " &{Destination}&" ➟ "&{Backhaul From}& " ➟ "&{Backhaul To\\Return}& " ➟ " &Origin &" - LANE #" & {LANE#}  Here is the output of the above formula.  Formula above works great, (example 1 below) but if there is no data in {Backhaul From} and {Backhaul To\\Return} the result is example 2 with 2 extra arrows.  Example 3 is the desired results.

I looked for other solutions on the forum and either I'm too much of a novice to know how to solve it or it didn't work for my problem. I have a rollup field that is collecting multiple dates. I'd like to have it only return the earliest date in the list.  Is that possible?  I tried using MIN(values), but only got a 0 in the field.  Thanks!