New to Smartsheet - Setting alerts once status has changed

Hi all,

I hope you are all doing well.

I have tried to incorporate Smartsheet into my daily workings and hope you may be able to help. Seemingly, Excel is far easier when setting rules, but with automation needed I decided to use Smartsheet.

Currently, I have a project on hold sheet which records all projects that are placed on hold. I need to be aware when a project has been on hold for 90 days, so created =[Column6]@row + 90.

Then, I created a status column (Believe this is what I need) and created =IF([Column8]@row < TODAY(+5), 1, 0). This helps me identify when a project is above 5 days or below.

I was going to use this to then create an alert to when the status changes from 0 to 1, an automated reminder is sent.

This is obviously extremely basic, for one, I would rather have 3 choices. Yes with the green tick (Plus 5 days from todays date), Hold with the orange exclamation mark (between 5 and 1 days from todays date) and red with the X mark (Todays date and any date past).

Too, I cannot work out how to get the status column to actually show statuses rather than 1 and 0 in my original IF statement.

All of the above I have picked from various comments on the community, so if there are easier ways please feel free to advise. I'm all ears (Almost literally).

Thanks,

Dan

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  • Kimberly Loveless
    Kimberly Loveless ✭✭✭✭✭✭
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    I am glad that it is working for that one. The yes one, as it is currently written, unless the date is exactly 5 days away it wouldn't show. If you want it to show the yes/green for anything 5 days or more away it is just adding a greater than symbol before the= in the formula.

    As for the hold, I think that it should have a an = in part of it as well.

    Try this one, all I did was add the two symbols I noted above

    =IF([Column8]@row >= TODAY(+5), "Yes", IF(AND([Column8]@row < TODAY(+5), [Column8]@row >= TODAY(+1)), "Hold", IF([Column8]@row <= TODAY(), "No")))

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You were, indeed, very close.<\/p>

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\n \n https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/discussion\/108861\/if-and-formula\n <\/a>\n<\/div>\n

It looks like you forgot to close out the AND <\/strong>funtion. Try this<\/p>

=IF([Invoice Received?]@row = 0, \"Green\", IF(AND([Renewal Date]@row >= TODAY(0), [Renewal Date]@row <= TODAY(+30)), \"Red\", \"Yellow\"))<\/code><\/p>

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I think I am following what you are attempting to do. Try this:<\/p>

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