Looking to compare two dates to create an Integer value across sheets

Sebastian Costello

Hello,

I am looking to create a tracker that tells me the quantity of samples that arrived in the estimated time against the actual time. My thought process was you have two date columns Date Column A (estimated date) and Date Column B (actual date). I would in my raw data sheet create a link to Column B first than compare that to Column A, if the difference was a positive integer it would count as 1. And the formula would run for all of the product families with sample orders.

The formula I made looked like this

=COUNTIFS({SHEET1 DATE COLUMN B}<{SHEET1 DATE COLUMN A}, 1)

I did not want to have this count in the same sheet as the date data as the sheet is already quite large and I want to reduce redundant information. This data will eventually end up in a graph anyways so its really just a feeder middle sheet that this formula will be used in.

I hope I made my problem easy to understand, if not I am happy to try to clarify more.

Thank you for any help!

Sebastian,

Paul Newcome

It would need to be calculated on the sheet containing the dates. You can then use a second sheet or row report to create a summary of those rows, but the initial calculation would need to happen on the source sheet.