Want to practice working with formulas directly in Smartsheet?

Check out the Formula Handbook template to view 100+ formulas, including a glossary of every function and examples of commonly used and advanced formulas.

Product questions?
Ask it here! The community's got your back.

Formulas and Functions

Ask for help with your formula and find examples of how others use formulas and functions to solve a similar problem.

Symbols Formula. How do I make a symbol depend on two other columns?
Hello! I am trying to make a symbol formula that will become "1" (red flag) IF the Start date is in the past, AND if a dropdown list DONT show "Done". Anyone that has this formula or knows how to write one? Kind Regards// Hugo Martinwall
VLOOKUP return the second value that is finds in the table
Hi, I am looking for a formula that can return the first, second, third ... value in the table. Using Vlookup will only return the first match Any suggestions!! Thanks Fadi
Date Calculation Question
Can anyone share with me on how I can calculate what I call the 'Next Quarter Projects'? For example: I have a start date and end date columns for each project, and I want to create a Filter/View that shows me the projects that are due in between a date range(ie Q2, Q3, Q4, etc) Can anyone help? Thanks!
Help with cross sheet formulas
I have a property list setup that contains floor plans and costs for those floors. In another sheet i have a column setup as "bill rate." In the bill rate column, i would like to write a formula that would go to the property list sheet, search the property name column, match the floor plan and cost of the floor plan The…
Calculate a conversion rate on a specific date
I have a budget that has expenses in both USD and EUR. I report expenses in USD to our finance department. I'd like to be able to calculate the euro to usd conversion rate for the date that something is paid. Is there a formula not to pull the current conversion rate, but a conversion rate from a specific date, in this…
Pull in average of column for certain rows in sheet
I have a tracker setup that I track support requests. I have a few metrics that allow me to see AVE SLA time to completion and assignment. The problem I am having is I want to show this same AVE SLa time value BUT only for specific rows based on a value in one of my columns. I seem to have a mental block on how I can…
Column Average
Hello! I am trying to calculate the average of a column. It seems like this should be a very simple task. I'm typing =AVG then referencing the column I need to average from another sheet. It generates the following formula =AVG({Employee Reviews - PFP Range 7}) However, when I hit enter, I get a #DIVIDE BY ZERO error. Any…
Counting and applying "color status" for parent/children rows
I have overall Annual goals (purple lines) with sub projects that fall into a particular category. I then have subtasks that fall under the corresponding item (identified with an alphanumeric task number). I want to be able to summarize (on a dashboard) a couple of things: the task health of the project level (task 25 with…
How to stop Alerts being triggered by TODAY() formula
Hi Everyone, This is my first post on here and hope someone can point me in the right direction. I have a formula cell which references TODAY() in a certain IF criteria. I also have several alerts going to various users which are generated if cells are added or changed on specific rows (including an alert to myself to show…
Row or Record roll up and multiple forms or sheets
I have been attempting set up a relational database for multiple client use. This database should track records (rows including child rows) as it progresses through different phases. Projects may stop periodically and should be searchable and may be re-started later. I have tried using 3 column relational connection to…

Help Article Resources

Create and edit formulas in Smartsheet

Formula combinations for cross sheet references

Smartsheet functions list

Popular Tags

Want to practice working with formulas directly in Smartsheet?

Check out the Formula Handbook template!

Trending in Formulas and Functions

Get a Countif on values in a multi-select column of cells
I am trying to write summary formulas to determine how many values appear of each in the drop-down of a column. I tried adding a wildcard, I have tried HAS, and tried CONTAIN, but I'm still not getting the right values. Currently I am getting 0 as a return value on this formula: =COUNTIF([ROI Type]:[ROI Type], HAS([ROI…
summaries in report
Hi i'm trying to build a report with summaries options. i have two column that i want a Min and Max summary. the column for the Min i a texte column and works well. but the other column has formulas and the Max doesn't works. there is a way to fix that? (instead of creating another text column in the source sheets?) here…
Converting email addresses with hyphenated First and/or Last Names
I am trying to convert email addresses into a Name field with the employee's First and Last Name, capitalizing the first character of each part of the name and keeping the hyphen in any part of the name that has one. I started with hyphenated first names so taking shmoe_joe-bob@company.com and converting it into Joe-Bob…

Formulas and Functions

Discussion List

Help Article Resources

Categories

Popular Tags