If Date Formula

Question

I am creating an IF formula in the Primary field so I know which apartment my maintenance manager was in, doing what, on what date.  I have a table that breaks it down by per suite so it is organized.
I have this as my formula:
Suite & “: " & Comments & " - "  & IF({Date Completed}, " (” & DATETIME_FORMAT({Date Completed}, ‘ll’) & “)”)
I copied and pasted it from a sample but it puts the date in brackets.  I don’t want brackets around the date.  I cannot figure out which parenthesis to eliminate. I have tried different ones but then I cannot save it due to errors in the formula.  Is there a way to do this formula so the date is not in (bracketed)?

AlliAlosa · Accepted Answer

Hi there @Office_Manager!The bolded parts of the formula below are what’s causing the parentheses to appear in your result:Suite & “: " & Comments & " - " & IF({Date Completed}, " (" & DATETIME_FORMAT({Date Completed}, ‘ll’) & “)”)Without them, your formula should look like this:Suite & “: " & Comments & " - " & IF({Date Completed}, DATETIME_FORMAT({Date Completed}, 'll'))The ampersands “&” act as a way of concatenating bits of the formula together. For example, you could write a formula like…"Hello" & " " & "World"This would return “Hello World”.I hope this helps!

Office_Manager · Answer

Thanks for the help - it worked!I think I was not matching the correct parentheses.

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