Formula Help Needed

Cecily Hill

Hi everyone,

 

Need some help. I'm sure this is a simple formula ... but I'm not Excel (or Smartsheets) savvy enough to figure it out.

 

I have a DATE column, and I have a FLAG column. If the date entered in the DATE column is more than 7 days in the past, I want the FLAG to appear in the flag column. If the DATE entered is less than 7 days in the past, then I want the flag to disappear.

 

Is this doable?

 

Thanks in advance for your help!

 

 

Mike Wilday

This might work - you need to put it in the flag column and make sure that Date1 is the date column you are referring to, 

 

=IF(Today() > Date1+7, 1, 0)

 

Mike Wilday

You might need to adjust the +7 to plus 6 to get your tally of 7 days. 

Cecily Hill

Hmmm... that did not work. It made the flag appear, no matter what date was in the date column.

Mike Wilday

Take the spaces out from around the > Bracket. 

Here is a sample sheet with it working:  
https://app.smartsheet.com/b/publish?EQBCT=e46474ea96954344b292fd634a785aad

Also: I made an adjustment so blank date fields do not have a flag...

 

=IF(ISBLANK(Date5), "", IF(TODAY() > Date5 + 6, 1, 0))

Cecily Hill

Oh my goodness... I just realized my mistake in implementing the first suggested formula: I wasn't entering the row number for the DATE column.  Derp.

 

Both of the formulas suggested are working. Thank you all for your help!

Mike Wilday

You're welcome!