Comments on: SharePoint Explained: Yes/No fields aren’t your friend – Why Choice fields are a better option

By: Jeff York

Jeff York — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 20:54:59 +0000

Thank you! I was killing myself trying to determine why my IF statement was not working.. I love this site!

By: Carrie

Carrie — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 19:33:48 +0000

Thank you for saving my sanity!! I had googled and seen to use the TRUE/FALSE thing, but I was still putting “TRUE” with quotes and until I removed the quotes, it was failing miserably. Thanks!

By: John Woodard

John Woodard — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 17:20:15 +0000

I am trying to do a calculated field where I want “Yes” to show up if a Date column is equal to or less than 365 days and “No” to show if the Date is more than 365 days old. I have several dates fields I need to apply this to and it stems from wanting the system (MOSS 07) to tell me when someones training has expired.

By: MG

MG — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 12:50:10 +0000

Excellent article. Thanks! John for sharing.

Is there a way to add comments if Yes or No.?

We have requirement for a list which has bunch of fields of Yes/No type. When user selects either Yes or No, we should provide a text field to capture data.

Thx. in advance

By: Jason DaPolito

Jason DaPolito — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 16:47:29 +0000

@ Ralf:
Using the Yes/No type in an IF statement must be done using TRUE/FALSE where TRUE = Yes and FALSE = No.

=IF([EC topic]=TRUE,”EC”,””)

By: Gilbert

Gilbert — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 07:40:35 +0000

Thank you very much, John, I’ve been banging my head on my keyboard trying to figure out why my simple CQWP wouldn’t display the correct results.

By: Laurence Wright

Laurence Wright — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 02:38:10 +0000

Wow, what a saver! I gave up with Yes/No fields and went with the suggested choice. IF() code now behaves as expected. Thanks John.

By: Rob Curtis

Rob Curtis — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 17:04:27 +0000

Could I say a big thank-you for posting this article. I have just spent an entire afternoon cursing my CQWP as it wasn’t behaving as expected (as I was naively filtering on yes and no). Gah!

By: Ralf

Ralf — Fri, 15 May 2009 08:46:22 +0000

I’m having some trouble with an IF-fuction combined with a YES/NO field.

All i want to do is to create a new column in which “EC” is displayed when in the YES/NO-column (called “EC topic”) YES is indicated.

I’ve tried this formula:

=IF([EC topic]=1,”EC”,”")

All fields in the calculated column remain blank like this…

Can someone help please?