Formula to change date based on adjacent drop down menu

I'm trying to set up a tool inventory, to help keep track of the location of all our big ticket items.

I've created a row for each tool. Asides from various descriptive colums, I have one column set as a drop down list (listing the numerous job sites the tool might be pulled to). I also have a Date Pulled column, to show when the tool was moved.

I want the "date" column to automatically populate to "today's" date whenever the drop down menu changes (regardless of what it changes to).

Any suggestions on a formula? I'm fairly clueless to smartsheet formulas and functions beyond the basics.

Cheers

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Scott Willeke

Hi Grant,

If I understand what you want, you could use a formula along the lines of the following one in your "Date Pulled" column:

=IF(ISBLANK(Location1), "", TODAY())

Also good to keep in mind things like Cell History, which can tell you when and who changed the "tool location" value.

Hope this helps.

Scott

Grant Harvey

Hey Scott,

Thanks for the suggestion.

I gave that a shot, but realized I would need to change the numerical location # for each row. Also, the "location" would never be blank, but either at our shop or job site. But that didn't seem to affect the formula for how I used it.

For now, I'm just using a date system column which auto populates the date modified. A little clunky but I will see how it pans out.