Formula returning a blank cell

I have been trying to figure this out for hours with no luck. We've created a formula to automatically update our status column in our project plan sheets. We have specific parent rows that are designated as milestones. The milestone row status cells should update based on the status of the child rows. A milestone row is indicated in the Milestone? row by clicking the symbol (star) to fill it in. I've got the formula below to guide automated status updates. In our milestone rows, the formula is returning a blank cell, and I cannot for the life of me figure out why. I've searched around in the Community and haven't seen a similar question/response.

=IF([Milestone?]@row= 0, IF([email protected]= 1, "Blocked", IF(ISBLANK([Actual Start Date]@row), "Not Started", IF([Actual Completion Date]@row<> "", "Completed", IF([Projected End Date]@row< TODAY(), "Late", IF(NETWORKDAYS(TODAY(), [Projected End Date]@row)<= 2, "Deadline Approaching", IF([Actual Start Date]@row< TODAY(), "In Progress", "")))))) + IF([Milestone?]@row= 1, IF(COUNTIF(CHILDREN(), "Blocked") >= 1, "Blocked", IF(COUNTIF(CHILDREN(), "Late") > 1, "High Risk", IF(COUNTIF(CHILDREN(), "Deadline Approaching") >= COUNT(CHILDREN()) / 2, "Low Risk", IF(COUNTIF(CHILDREN(), "In Progress") > 0, "In Progress", IF(COUNTIF(CHILDREN(), "Complete") = COUNT(CHILDREN()), "Complete", "Not Started")))))))

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  • Mike L.
    Mike L. ✭✭
    edited 04/10/19

    One of your IF statements returns a blank cell if false. What if you change the statement from:

    IF([Actual Start Date]@row< TODAY(), "In Progress", ""

    to

    IF([Actual Start Date]@row< TODAY(), "In Progress", "you are here"

    If that doesn't produce the new message in the cell I would start over by testing each condition to see if you get the intended result. Probably the conditional statements before and after the "+" symbol, each time testing one component then rebuild the formula.

  • Paul Newcome
    Paul Newcome ✭✭✭✭✭✭

    Are you able to provide a screenshot that covers all of the column referenced in your formula for the row in question? That may help us narrow down where an issue could be hiding.

    10xViz

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Hi @ewitt19205<\/a> <\/p>

Try removing the space between the quotes. You are counting all cells with 1 space in the cell. Blanks are counted with the quotes together.<\/p>

When counting blanks though, its also good to use a COUNTIFS and compare the blank off another column that always has a value. Like Countifs when the Project name is not blank (<>\"//www.santa-greenland.com/community/discussion/45606/\") and the Account Dashboard is blank (\"//www.santa-greenland.com/community/discussion/45606/\").<\/p>

I hope that helps.<\/p>

Thanks,<\/p>

Matt<\/p>"}]}},"status":{"statusID":3,"name":"Accepted","state":"closed","recordType":"discussion","recordSubType":"question"},"bookmarked":false,"unread":false,"category":{"categoryID":322,"name":"Formulas and Functions","url":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/categories\/formulas-and-functions","allowedDiscussionTypes":[]},"reactions":[{"tagID":3,"urlcode":"Promote","name":"Promote","class":"Positive","hasReacted":false,"reactionValue":5,"count":0},{"tagID":5,"urlcode":"Insightful","name":"Insightful","class":"Positive","hasReacted":false,"reactionValue":1,"count":0},{"tagID":11,"urlcode":"Up","name":"Vote Up","class":"Positive","hasReacted":false,"reactionValue":1,"count":0},{"tagID":13,"urlcode":"Awesome","name":"Awesome","class":"Positive","hasReacted":false,"reactionValue":1,"count":0}],"tags":[]},{"discussionID":108186,"type":"question","name":"Index\/Collect does not work with < symbol","excerpt":"Hi there, I am using the INDEX COLLECT formulas to get a value if a number is between two ranges. The issue is that I'm getting an #INVALID VALUE error in the following formula: =INDEX(COLLECT({TotalRiskFactor}, {RangeStart}, >=[Risk Score]@row, {RangeEnd}, <=[Risk Score]@row), 1) The problem is with the \"<\" symbol in the…","snippet":"Hi there, I am using the INDEX COLLECT formulas to get a value if a number is between two ranges. The issue is that I'm getting an #INVALID VALUE error in the following formula:…","categoryID":322,"dateInserted":"2023-07-27T14:55:04+00:00","dateUpdated":null,"dateLastComment":"2023-07-27T18:38:27+00:00","insertUserID":122906,"insertUser":{"userID":122906,"name":"Cesar Perez","url":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/profile\/Cesar%20Perez","photoUrl":"https:\/\/aws.smartsheet.com\/storageProxy\/image\/images\/u!1!2uFV_3dM1no!ndnWXxsFlTw!JCwGNa_KQWy","dateLastActive":"2023-07-27T15:35:52+00:00","banned":0,"punished":0,"private":false,"label":"✭✭"},"updateUserID":null,"lastUserID":45516,"lastUser":{"userID":45516,"name":"Paul Newcome","title":"","url":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/profile\/Paul%20Newcome","photoUrl":"https:\/\/us.v-cdn.net\/6031209\/uploads\/userpics\/082\/nQPUTVFKKWDJ2.jpg","dateLastActive":"2023-07-27T19:24:49+00:00","banned":0,"punished":0,"private":false,"label":"✭✭✭✭✭✭"},"pinned":false,"pinLocation":null,"closed":false,"sink":false,"countComments":4,"countViews":28,"score":null,"hot":3380955211,"url":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/discussion\/108186\/index-collect-does-not-work-with-symbol","canonicalUrl":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/discussion\/108186\/index-collect-does-not-work-with-symbol","format":"Rich","tagIDs":[254],"lastPost":{"discussionID":108186,"commentID":387609,"name":"Re: Index\/Collect does not work with < symbol","url":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/discussion\/comment\/387609#Comment_387609","dateInserted":"2023-07-27T18:38:27+00:00","insertUserID":45516,"insertUser":{"userID":45516,"name":"Paul Newcome","title":"","url":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/profile\/Paul%20Newcome","photoUrl":"https:\/\/us.v-cdn.net\/6031209\/uploads\/userpics\/082\/nQPUTVFKKWDJ2.jpg","dateLastActive":"2023-07-27T19:24:49+00:00","banned":0,"punished":0,"private":false,"label":"✭✭✭✭✭✭"}},"breadcrumbs":[{"name":"Home","url":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/"},{"name":"Get Help","url":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/categories\/get-help"},{"name":"Formulas and Functions","url":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/categories\/formulas-and-functions"}],"groupID":null,"statusID":3,"image":{"url":"https:\/\/us.v-cdn.net\/6031209\/uploads\/JURDPT6GMX1Y\/formula.png","urlSrcSet":{"10":"","300":"","800":"","1200":"","1600":""},"alt":"Formula.png"},"attributes":{"question":{"status":"accepted","dateAccepted":"2023-07-27T15:36:00+00:00","dateAnswered":"2023-07-27T15:02:42+00:00","acceptedAnswers":[{"commentID":387556,"body":"

The issue is with your arguments overall. Using the Score of 40 (as in your examples)...<\/p>


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The score start range has to be 40 or greater, but the range end has to be less than or equal to 40.<\/p>


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Try reversing it so that the start is less than the score and the end is greater than the score.<\/p>


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Take a look at the second piece in your destination file. The formula is not throwing an error, but it is also not pulling the correct value in. It should be pulling in Moderate because 40 is between 35 and 54, but it is pulling in Moderate-High because that is the first entry where the Range Start is greater than 40.<\/p>"},{"commentID":387563,"body":"

You have your greater than and less than backwards. Your formula is saying to looking for the start date to be greater than 40 and the 35 is less than 40.<\/p>"}]}},"status":{"statusID":3,"name":"Accepted","state":"closed","recordType":"discussion","recordSubType":"question"},"bookmarked":false,"unread":false,"category":{"categoryID":322,"name":"Formulas and Functions","url":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/categories\/formulas-and-functions","allowedDiscussionTypes":[]},"reactions":[{"tagID":3,"urlcode":"Promote","name":"Promote","class":"Positive","hasReacted":false,"reactionValue":5,"count":0},{"tagID":5,"urlcode":"Insightful","name":"Insightful","class":"Positive","hasReacted":false,"reactionValue":1,"count":0},{"tagID":11,"urlcode":"Up","name":"Vote Up","class":"Positive","hasReacted":false,"reactionValue":1,"count":0},{"tagID":13,"urlcode":"Awesome","name":"Awesome","class":"Positive","hasReacted":false,"reactionValue":1,"count":0}],"tags":[{"tagID":254,"urlcode":"Formulas","name":"Formulas"}]}],"initialPaging":{"nextURL":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/api\/v2\/discussions?page=2&categoryID=322&includeChildCategories=1&type%5B0%5D=Question&excludeHiddenCategories=1&sort=-hot&limit=3&expand%5B0%5D=all&expand%5B1%5D=-body&expand%5B2%5D=insertUser&expand%5B3%5D=lastUser&status=accepted","prevURL":null,"currentPage":1,"total":10000,"limit":3},"title":"Trending in Formulas and Functions ","subtitle":null,"description":null,"noCheckboxes":true,"containerOptions":[],"discussionOptions":[]}">

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