Feb 08, 2019 09:41 AM
Hi! Below is the formula I’m using
DATEADD({Fast Action $7K Paid},30,‘days’)
I want to prevent the “#ERROR!” message from appearing when the “Fast Action $7K Paid” box is left empty. This field won’t always be used and the error message constantly showing is a tad frustrating. What do I need to add to the above formula to ensure that when nothing is put in the “Fast Action $7K Paid” then the error message won’t show in the next box?
Thank you for any and all help!
Feb 08, 2019 09:58 AM
IF({Fast Action $7K Paid}=BLANK(),“Error Will Robinson”, DATEADD({Fast Action $7K Paid},30,‘days’))
Feb 08, 2019 10:25 AM
So that looks right and THANK YOU! But I’m now getting the message that that formula doesn’t work
Feb 08, 2019 10:27 AM
you have to re-type the single quotes(maybe the double as well), they get formatted as a different but similar character in the forum. (copy and paste from the forum doesn’t work as we’d like)
Feb 08, 2019 10:28 AM
That did it! Thank you Michael!
Feb 08, 2019 10:31 AM
One more question Michael as this adjustment has now caused another error. How do I adjust DATEADD to only be the date and not the time. I don’t have the option to edit it using formatting with this formula for some reason.
Feb 08, 2019 10:34 AM
have a look at this
The DATETIME_FORMAT function will allow you to reformat the data from the date-type field into a string of your specifications. This is written in the form "DATETIME_FORMAT(Datetime, 'format s...
Feb 08, 2019 10:49 AM
Thanks, I’ll have to take a deeper look at it as the adjustments I made from that support article didn’t work.
Feb 08, 2019 10:51 AM
put your formula into: DATETIME_FORMAT( your formula, ‘M-D-YYYY’)
Feb 08, 2019 12:59 PM
That unfortunately didn’t work for me either.
Feb 08, 2019 01:01 PM
I see it broke the way it handles the blank
Feb 08, 2019 01:04 PM
I could have sworn I put it in just like that! Thank you so much Michael!
Feb 08, 2019 01:06 PM
Sorry, need to move the DATETIME_FORMAT to surround just the DATEADD portion so you still get the correct error handling
Feb 08, 2019 01:07 PM
Was just coming back to ask this :slightly_smiling_face:
Feb 08, 2019 01:09 PM
All is now well! Thank you thank you!
Dec 22, 2021 10:00 AM
I had the same issue and, after emailing support, came up with a slightly different formula:
IF({Construction Start Date},(DATEADD({Construction Start Date},-33,‘day’)))
The difference between this and the other solution in this thread is that if instead of #ERROR, the field will just show blank if the “Construction Start Date” hasn’t been entered.
Apr 15, 2022 04:54 AM
Struggling to make these solutions work for me.
In my case if a field referenced by the formula is itself an #ERROR!, i’d like the concurrent formula referencing to it to output as BLANK().
Used this:
IF({Year} = “#ERROR!”, BLANK(), DATETIME_PARSE(CONCATENATE({Year}, “-“, {MONTH(1-12)},”-“,{Day(1-31})))
But still gives me an #ERROR! when the {Year} is also an #ERROR!
#feature request?
Apr 15, 2022 06:36 AM
You could use ISERROR({Year})
to test if the {Year} formula result is an error. However, a simpler formula only calculates the date if there is a year.
IF(
{Year},
DATETIME_PARSE(
{Year} & "-" & {MONTH(1-12)} & "-" & {Day(1-31},
"YYYY-M-D"
)
)
By the way, I copied the field names from your post, but it looks like there might be a missing closing parentheses in you {Day(1-32} field name.
Apr 15, 2022 09:02 AM
Did the job perfectly. Thanks for bringing iserror() and how to use it to my attention. Quite useful.
Aug 18, 2022 02:01 PM
That’s the best solution for the problem. Thanks, @Tony_Lewis!