If then statement for contacts

I have a Zapier automation that automatically creates a new row with data about a new user. I'd like it to convert the username of the person who created the account into their SmartSheet contact. My issue is that I am not sure how to setup the formula to change a AD username to a SmartSheet contact. I created a separate column called "Created by" where the smartsheet contact will be.

This is what I have so far:

=IF([Created by User], "useradmin", "John Admin", IF([Created by User], "Smith", "John Smith"))

Answers

  • Amy Foeller
    Amy Foeller ✭✭✭✭

    I am also curious about this! I have employee name data pulled into a sheet from Google Forms/Drive with Data Uploader and that process can't fill in the smartsheet contact information in the destination sheet. I need another column that looks at the employee name and returns their smartsheet contact. (I expect to have to create another small sheet with the employee names and coinciding smartsheet contact for the lookup to work.) But if this can be done with a simple IF formula instead, that would be even better!

  • Bassam Khalil
    Bassam Khalil ✭✭✭✭✭✭

    Hi @Abby Warren  & @Amy Foeller

    Hope you are fine, you can create a separate sheet containing 2 columns 1 for the Created by User and 2 is the contact name then you can use Vlookup or Index with Match formula and convert it to column formula to pull the contacts for you.

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  • Created by AD user will be the column that is filled in first.

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