Sum total number of cartons by date

Amy Gratz · 05/01/18

I have vendors fill out a form every time they have a shipment leaving their building. I want to create a widget on the dashboard for our leaders that show the total number of cartons leaving our vendors each day. (Bar Graph)

But first, how do I create a report or formula to sum cartons by date, without me providing the date to begin with?

We could have 10 shipments leaving on 1 day or we could have 0 so I want this number to calculate automatically without me having to provide a date field first especially since this is an ongoing form every day of the year.

Chris McKay · 05/01/18

Hi Amy,

You'll want to create a Metric inside the data sheet (usually at the top above your data). Then you'll want to have a formula that counts the shipments that are sent on today's date. Something like this:

=COUNTIF([Confirm Ship Date]:[Confirm Ship Date], TODAY())

Put this in a cell (not in the Ship Date column) and it will always show a count of shipments sent today (updating when the date ticks over).

You can then point your Dashboard Metric Widget at this cell.

Kind regards,

Chris McKay

Sum total number of cartons by date

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