I would like to add two years to any date!

Anil Rattan

Hi, I would like to add two years to the date from another column?

Any suggestions

Thanks!

Jon Baier

Make sure the column type is 'Date' for the column where you are placing the formula.

Paul Newcome

Try something like this...

=DATE(YEAR([Date Column]@row) + 2, MONTH([Date Column]@row, DAY([Date Column]@row))

Anil Rattan

=DATE(YEAR([ED]@ROW) + 2, MONTH(([ED]@ROW), DAY([ED]@ROW)))

i USED THE ABOVE FORMULA AND IT SAYS THAT "UNPARSABLE"

Paul Newcome

You have an extra set of parenthesis. Remove one from after MONTH and one from the end.

@row is also case sensitive. It has to be lower case.

=DATE(YEAR([ED]@row) + 2, MONTH(([ED]@row), DAY([ED]@row))

Anil Rattan

=DATE(YEAR([ED]@row3) + 2, MONTH([ED]@row3), DAY([ED]@row3)), it still says unparsable.

Does the date column has to be any particular format. It's YYYY-MM-DD.

Paul Newcome

You would use either an actual row number OR @row. @row just tells the formula to look at the specified column for whatever row the formula is on. It is more efficient on the back-end and helps avoid accidentally entering an incorrect row number.

Try this exactly as is...

=DATE(YEAR([ED]@row) + 2, MONTH([ED]@row), DAY([ED]@row))

Anil Rattan

It says #INVALID COLUMN VALUE

Jon Baier

Make sure the column type is 'Date' for the column where you are placing the formula.

Anil Rattan

Thank you very much.

damon.tackett

This is a great option! Is there a way to alter the formula to update the date when a box is checked?

Jeff Reisman

https://community.smartsheet.com/discussion/comment/360016#Comment_360016

You can do this with a little trickery and a helper column.

Create a helper column called something like DatePlusTwoYears, and populate it using the formula from above.

In the column that you want to be able to toggle the date, use an IF statement:

=IF(CheckboxColumn@row = 1, DatePlusTwoYears@row, RegularDateColumn@row)

damon.tackett

thank you @Jeff Reisman . I tried it but it gave me a #CIRCULAR REFERANCE error. I was able to get it to work if I added a second helper column and added the formula to it.

Paul Newcome

@damon.tackett You should be able to do away with the helper column if you use:

=IFERROR(DATE(YEAR([Original Date]@row) + IF(Checkbox@row = 1, 2, 0), MONTH([Original Date]@row), DAY([Original Date]@row)), "")