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What am I doing wrong?

  • March 31, 2022
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Here is my formula

IF({Dept} =Bath, “8.5”, IF({Dept} =Win, “10”, IF({Dept} =ODL, “0” ) ) )

My objective - if field “Dept” is Bath then 8.5, if it is Win then 10, if it is ODL then 0

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kuovonne
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  • Brainy
  • March 31, 2022

Welcome to the Airtable Community!

You need to put quotes around your text strings and not the numbers. You can also use SWITCH instead of nested IFs.

SWITCH( {Dept},
    "Bath", 8.5,
    "Win", 10,
    "ODL", 0
)

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  • New Participant
  • March 31, 2022

Welcome to the Airtable Community!

You need to put quotes around your text strings and not the numbers. You can also use SWITCH instead of nested IFs.

SWITCH( {Dept},
    "Bath", 8.5,
    "Win", 10,
    "ODL", 0
)

I apologize - this is probably a dumb question… do I need to take spaces out. If I copy and paste I get an error.


kuovonne
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  • Brainy
  • March 31, 2022

I apologize - this is probably a dumb question… do I need to take spaces out. If I copy and paste I get an error.


Looks like some curly quotes snuck in when I was typing on my phone. I straightened them. You can try copy/pasting again.