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Oct 25, 2020 01:06 PM
Hello,
I’m new writting formulas, I’ve read all the guides on airtable’s website and other posts in the forum.
However I can’t get my formula to work. I only need that when the value of a cell is equal to a number a specific name appears.
This is what I’ve wrote; IF (Total = “6.99”, Hernia discal, BLANK())
But airtable won’t let me keep the formula because it’s misspelled.
Any advises?
Thanks.
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Oct 25, 2020 01:11 PM
Anything that isn’t a function or the name of a field needs to be in either straight apostrophes or quotation marks. If a field name contains a space it must be surrounded by curly braces.
So your formula should likely be either:
IF(
Total = "6.99",
"Hernia discal",
BLANK()
)
or
IF(
Total = "6.99",
{Hernia discal},
BLANK()
)

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Oct 25, 2020 01:11 PM
Anything that isn’t a function or the name of a field needs to be in either straight apostrophes or quotation marks. If a field name contains a space it must be surrounded by curly braces.
So your formula should likely be either:
IF(
Total = "6.99",
"Hernia discal",
BLANK()
)
or
IF(
Total = "6.99",
{Hernia discal},
BLANK()
)

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Oct 25, 2020 01:35 PM
Thanks a lot for your fast reply, It worked.
What if I want to add different values for total? I’ve tried to duplicate the formula with different values but it doesn’t work,
Something like this:
Total = “6.99”,
“Hernia discal”,
BLANK()
Total = “10.99”,
“Hernia discal lumbar”,
BLANK()
Total = “15.99”,
“Hernia discal cervical”,
BLANK()
Thanks a lot for your help.

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Oct 25, 2020 02:24 PM
If you’re comparing the value of one thing multiple times you could use a SWITCH statement.
SWITCH(
Total,
"6.99",
"Hernia discal",
"10.99",
"Hernia discal lumbar",
"15.99",
"Hernia discal cervical",
BLANK()
)
For your reference, if you wanted to nest an IF() statement it would look like this:
IF(
Total = "6.99",
"Hernia discal",
IF(
Total = "10.99",
"Hernia discal lumbar",
IF(
Total = "15.99",
"Hernia discal cervical",
BLANK()
)
)
)

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Oct 25, 2020 02:40 PM
Thanks mate, you’re a beast.
