IF statement, when there is a blank cell

[Jocelyn_Piazza]

If the cell is BLANK I want it to show up as blank in the field rather than ERROR

For example: IF ({Date of Donation} = BLANK()," “) but this isn’t working and right now I do not have the if statement so it is showing up as error.

I also want another IF statement that says : IF {{First Name} & {Last Name} = BLANK(), " {Organization }"}

So if the first name and last name are blank enter the organization name instead.

[Jocelyn_Piazza]

This is what I have coded thus far:

DATETIME_FORMAT({Date of Donation}, ‘MM/DD/YY’) & " | " & {First Name} & " " & {Last Name}

[Jocelyn_Piazza]

I am also in the far left column coding this I don’t know if it makes a difference

[Justin_Barrett]

Jocelyn_Piazza:

Just to clarify I want the code to say if the first name and last name cells are blank then type the organization name. and if the date of donation is blank type a blank space.

Yup, that’s exactly what my formula does. Here’s a screenshot:

My version is in the first field, so that’s not the issue.

What exactly is (or isn’t) happening when you try to use the formula I wrote? Do you see an error message? Do you see a different result than what you expect? If so, what is it? The more details you can provide, the easier it will be to help.

[Jocelyn_Piazza]

Yeah that’s exactly what I want it to do. Except sometimes there is no date. maybe that’s why it doesn’t work?

It just says error invalid and it won’t let me enter it. Thats exactly what I have my fields as too.

[Jocelyn_Piazza]

Just to verify this is the full code that should work?

DATETIME_FORMAT({Date of Donation}, ‘MM/DD/YY’) & " | " & {First Name} & " " & {Last Name} IF(
{Date of Donation},
DATETIME_FORMAT({Date of Donation}, ‘MM/DD/YY’) & " | " &
IF(
AND({First Name},{Last Name}),
{First Name} & " " & {Last Name},
Organization
)
)

[Justin_Barrett]

No, only this code should be used:

IF(
    {Date of Donation},
    DATETIME_FORMAT({Date of Donation}, 'MM/DD/YY') & " | " &
    IF(
        AND({First Name},{Last Name}),
        {First Name} & " " & {Last Name},
        Organization
    )
)

[Jocelyn_Piazza]

Great!

This works, thanks so much.

But I have one more question. If the cell doesn’t have an org name or a date nothing is showing up, I would like for at least their first and last name to show up?

[Justin_Barrett]

This variation should take care of that. If the date is there, it will format it before the person/org name, whichever is available. If no date, the name will still appear.

IF(
    {Date of Donation},
    DATETIME_FORMAT({Date of Donation}, 'MM/DD/YY') & " | "
) & IF(
    AND({First Name},{Last Name}),
    {First Name} & " " & {Last Name},
    Organization
)

[Jocelyn_Piazza]

wow thank you so much for all your help

[Tito_Alverio]

I was also interested in ignoring blank fields and found that CONCATENATE() might be a simpler formula to use for what you want. Just putting the columns inside the parentheses will ignore blanks and move on to the next input. I did have to include an IF() for my Date column that uses a specific DATETIME_FORMAT() because when DATETIME_FORMAT is inside CONCATENATE it would throw an error if empty. But the IF formula was the solution to that problem.