How to ignore blank cells within formula?
Hello,
i have a formula which checks compliance between two dates (if one is greater than the other then it returns ‘no’, otherwise ‘yes’). Please could someone help me to update the formula to leave the result blank if the value in one of the other cells is blank? Currently it’s saying ‘yes’ when there’s no finalised date.
Thanks!
Laura
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Nic Larsen ✭✭✭✭✭✭Can you share your formula you are using? You need to add the ISBLANK function to it to get the result you are looking for.
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Nic Larsen ✭✭✭✭✭✭
Add this to the front of your formula. You'll need to fix the column names in mine to match your formula. Add your current working formula to the end where I put "input" and remove those quotes. That should work for you.
Basically, it'll check your two columns first to see if either are blank, if true, it'll leave it blank, if not, it'll move on to your formula.
=IF(OR(ISBLANK([Date 1]@row), ISBLANK([Date 2]@row)), "", "Input rest of formula")
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Hi Nic
This is my current formula. And if either Target Complete Date or Actual Complete Date or blank then I want the cell to be blank
=IF([Project?]@row= "yes", IF([Actual Complete Date]@row> [Target Complete Date]@row, "NO", "YES"), "")
I did try to add your formula in front but got an unparsed error.
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Nic - that worked!!! Thanks. I realize I left out the second "IF" the one in front of my original formula
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Nic Larsen ✭✭✭✭✭✭
Are you missing an "AND" function in your IF formula to look at both the Project? and then the data calculation?
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I am not sure - first I want to see if Project is Yes then I want to do the Yes/No calculation based on if Actual Date is later than Target Date. But if either Actual or Target Date columns are blank then I don't want anything. It appears to be working well now
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Instead of applying the formula to \"Multiselect Text String\" row, did you tried with \"Multiselect Values\" row?<\/p>
=IF(HAS([Multiselect Values]@row, [Component ID]@row), \"MATCH\", \"NO MATCH\")<\/p>
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