Help with creating Formula's using " Is Blank" and "If"

Brittany Marie

So, for the first part of the equation, I wanna say " if the contract end date is blank, then the decision date cell will be blank"

and the second part of the equation is the decision date column = (Contract End date minus Notice Period)

=IF(ISBLANK(Contract End Date@row),COUNTIF([Contract End Date]@row - [Renewal Alert Date]@row)

I tried combining the two formulas, but I keep getting an error. Can somebody point out what I did wrong?

Thanks in advance!

Katy H

@Brittany Marie There are still some issues with your syntax (apologies for including bad syntax in my earlier response!)

Try this:

=IF(ISBLANK([Contract End Date]@row),"",([Contract End Date]@row, [Renewal Alert Date]@row))

I think the countif is actually not needed? Are you just trying to subtract one date from the other to get the number of days?

Katy H

Assuming the formula is located in the "Decision Date" column, try the formula below.

=IF(ISBLANK(Contract End Date@row),"", COUNTIF([Contract End Date]@row - [Renewal Alert Date]@row))

Syntax translates to if Contract End Date is blank, then make the Decision Date blank, if not then subtract renewal alert date from contract end date.

Tristan

Brittany,

=IF(ISBLANK([Contract End Date@row]),"",COUNTIF([Contract End Date]@row - [Renewal Alert Date]@row))

Try that.

You need the [ ] Brackets around the first [Contract End Date]@Row. And a second ) at the end.

The IF formula works like this: IF(the check, if true do this, if false do this) You can use two quotes to signify nothing.

You could also write it as this:

=IF([Contract End Date]@row="","",COUNTIF([Contract End Date]@row - [Renewal Alert Date]))

Hope this helps!

Brittany Marie

Hi Katy and Tristan,

Thanks for your quick response

So, I tried plugging in the formula: =IF(ISBLANK([Contract End Date@row]),"",COUNTIF([Contract End Date]@row - [Renewal Alert Date]@row))

But, I keep getting the " Unparseable"

Katy H

@Brittany Marie There are still some issues with your syntax (apologies for including bad syntax in my earlier response!)

Try this:

=IF(ISBLANK([Contract End Date]@row),"",([Contract End Date]@row, [Renewal Alert Date]@row))

I think the countif is actually not needed? Are you just trying to subtract one date from the other to get the number of days?