Newbee Formula question

[Daniel_Molter]

Can multiple formulas be assigned to a field. I have a filed that determines the days between Estimated completion and Date started, Wanted to have the Field change color if late, if not late, or have a label stating “No assigned Date” if no dates were assigned to the task. Can this be done?

[Elias_Gomez_Sai]

You can’t change colors but you could so something like this: https://support.airtable.com/hc/en-us/articles/221104988-Conditional-formulas-with-emoji

[Shane_O_Dazier]

Curious, are you using for a construction application?

[Daniel_Molter]

If I understand your question I am using the formula construction, I could accomplish what I wanted using a few cells, referencing them, and hiding them ones I didn’t need. That way I could get the conditional situation I wanted

[Shane_O_Dazier]

I’m near which industry are you in? The application of Airtable is for your industry which is? Just curious

[Hashim_Warren]

Pro plan has conditional coloring

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[W_Vann_Hall]

I’m not exactly certain from your description how your field is configured, but you would probably use a nested IF() statement along the lines of

IF(AND({CompletionDate}=BLANK(),{StartDate}=BLANK()),'No assigned dates',
IF({CompletionDate}=BLANK(),'No completion date',
IF({StartDate}=BLANK(),'No start date',
IF(IS_AFTER(TODAY(),{CompletionDate}),'Project late',
'Project on schedule'))))

As @Hashim_Warren notes, under the Pro plan you can use conditional colors, but that color tag applies to the entire record, not just the field. To flag the field directly, as @Elias_Gomez_Sainz mentioned, you can use emojis. For instance, in my Wardrobe Manager base, I report an unflagged date when the completion date is at least two days out, a date flagged with the Large Orange Diamond emoji if the completion date is today or tomorrow, and a date flagged with the Fire emoji if the completion date has passed. Here’s a snippet from the Wardrobe Manager Users Guide to demonstrate.

You can also use emojis and conditional colors together. (Please note the latter are defined per-view, while the former — being assigned at the field level — are visible in all views displaying that field. Also note that some OS/browser/font combinations may not display emoji in color — or at all.)

If you want dates to align nicely in views, you will need to left-pad your unflagged date with an en- or em-space character to match the indentation (unfortunately not shown in the above extract). I had to experiment with various combinations of fixed spaces and the space character to find one that matched.