help with a formula question

Michelle Barnett

Hi,

I'm trying to use this formula to evaluate whether a value should appear Red, Green or Yellow by multiplying to other values in the sheet, but I keep getting an #unparsable error.

=IF(sum([Severity]1*[Probability]1) >"1.0", "Red", IF(AND(sum[Severity]1*[Probability]1) >".50", (sum[Severity]1*[Probability]1) <".75"), "Yellow", "Green"))

I'm not sure why - if someone else has run into this issue, please let me know how to resolve it.

thanks,

Michelle

Paul Newcome

You have a misplaced parenthesis. Move the opening parenthesis from before the 3rd "sum" to immediately after it.

Paul Newcome

Knowing what you want it to do, try this one instead...

=IF(Severity@row * Probability@row > .75, "Red", IF(Severity@row * Probability@row > .5, "Yellow", "Green"))

Paul Newcome

Happy to help. 👍️

With nested IFs, the formula will stop on the first true value. Using that logic, if it moves past an IF then that particular IF must already be false. So by the time we get to the "Yellow" output, we already know that it must be less than .75 so there is no real need to repeat that as a criteria.

Paul Newcome

You have a misplaced parenthesis. Move the opening parenthesis from before the 3rd "sum" to immediately after it.

Michelle Barnett

Thank you I'll try that.

Paul Newcome

Happy to help. 👍️

Michelle Barnett

Hi,

I had to set this formula aside for other priorities but it's still not working properly.

I moved the parentheses but it's still not working. Just to refresh my original question was around evaluating the sum of Severity*Probability to determine my risk score and put a graphical indicator on it. If the value is less than .50 it's green, if it's greater than .50 but less than .75 it's yellow and greater than .75 is red.

=IF(sum([Severity]@row*[Probability]@row) >"1.0", "Red", IF(AND(sum[Severity]@row*[Probability]@row) >".50", sum[Severity]@row*[Probability]@row) <".75"), "Yellow", "Green"))

Any suggestions?

Thanks

Michelle

Paul Newcome

Knowing what you want it to do, try this one instead...

=IF(Severity@row * Probability@row > .75, "Red", IF(Severity@row * Probability@row > .5, "Yellow", "Green"))

Michelle Barnett

That worked! Thank you for your help Paul. I was struggling with that one! I thought yellow wasn't going to work unless I defined a range between .5 and .75. I think I was overthinking it. Thanks again

Paul Newcome

Happy to help. 👍️

With nested IFs, the formula will stop on the first true value. Using that logic, if it moves past an IF then that particular IF must already be false. So by the time we get to the "Yellow" output, we already know that it must be less than .75 so there is no real need to repeat that as a criteria.

Michelle Barnett

Thanks, I'll think about that when working on future nested ifs.