Formulas for an automatically generated Risk Level

Ruth

Hi

I'm am trying to replicate the below formulas in smartsheet so it can automatically calculate the Risk Level with existing controls and with additional mitigation. The below formulas are currently being used in excel:

Formula for existing controls Risk Level:

=IFERROR(VLOOKUP(H7&I7,LikeliConseq, 2, FALSE),"")

Formula for mitigation Risk Level:

=IF(AND(L7="",M7=""),J7,VLOOKUP(L7&M7,LikeliConseq, 2, FALSE))

I would like the end result to include the Risk Level in word format (e.g. Extreme, Medium, Low etc.) and the corresponding colour as per 'Risk Level Capture' attached.

Any advice?

Thanks

Paul Newcome

You would need to set your table up  so that the Consequences are going across the top row above the table. Something like this (column names in bold):

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TableA          TableB          TableC          TableD          TableE

                      Minor             Moderate      Major            Severe

Certain

Likely

Possible

Unlikely

Rare

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Of course you would fill in the rest of your table with the ratings.

From there you would use something along the lines of this:

=INDEX($TableB$2:$TableE$6, MATCH(Likelihood@row, $TableA$2:$TableA$6, 0), MATCH(Consequence@row, $TableB$1:$TableE$1, 0))

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This leverages the MATCH function to give you a row number based on the likelihood and a column number based on the consequence to populate the appropriate fields in the INDEX function.

 

EDIT:

I forgot the color part...

 

You would simply use conditional formatting to get the colors to pull through.

Ruth

Thanks very much Paul!

Paul Newcome

Happy to help!