How do I return a value of a cell based on a condition?

gwson

I am looking to return a value of a semester (i.e. Spring2020) from a particular cell in another sheet, for a particular student ID (i.e. 55555) taking a particular course (i.e. 6000)

I used this formula to count how many courses student is taking, and that gives me a number

=COUNTIFS({coursenumber}, "6000", {studentid}, "5555")

I need something like this

=IF(CONTAINS({coursenumber},"6000",{studentid},"5555"),{semester})

Genevieve P.

Hi @gwson

You could use a JOIN(COLLECT formula for this, even though you don't have values to Join (you'll just be returning one cell, assuming that only one value meets all the criteria).

Try this:

=JOIN(COLLECT({Semester Range}, {Course Number}, [Course Number]@row, {Student ID}, [Student ID]@row))

This is assuming you have a sheet with the Course Number and Student ID listed, so you don't have to create a new formula for each individual student and course. Otherwise one example formula would be as follows:

=JOIN(COLLECT({Semester Range}, {Course Number}, "6000" {Student ID}, "5555"))

Let me know if this works for you!

-Genevieve