Comments on: Taming the Elusive “Calculated Column” – Logic – Part 1

By: Paul Kensler

Paul Kensler — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 17:55:08 +0000

I was searching for the same solution and came across this post; I came up with the answer and thought I’d post back if others stumble across it.
Yes, this can be done using nested IF statements, BUT you can only have 7 nested IFs, so I sort of cheated. If you outline a table of your Impact and Urgency scores, you end up with 9 cells (my difference from the original question, is I score the highest priority as 1 – so the lower the number, the higher the priority)
Low I + Low U = 5
Low I + Med U = 4
Low I + High U = 3
Med I + Low U = 4
Med I + Med U = 3
Med I + High U = 2
High I + Low U = 3
High I + Med U = 2
High I + High U = 1

So I wrote the IF statements to account for the scores 1, 2, 4 and 5, and made the final “else” = 3. So any combination of the above Impact and Urgency scores either directly results in a logical match, or it defaults to 3 (which for my purposes was safe, because 3 = medium priority).

=IF(AND(Impact=”Low”,Urgency=”Low”),5,IF(AND(Impact=”Low”,Urgency=”Medium”),4,IF(AND(Impact=”Medium”,Urgency=”Low”),4,IF(AND(Impact=”Medium”,Urgency=”High”),2,IF(AND(Impact=”High”,Urgency=”Medium”),2,IF(AND(Impact=”High”,Urgency=”High”),1,3))))))

Hope this helps somebody!

Paul

By: Thomas

Thomas — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 09:20:55 +0000

How is it possible to calculate with the column “name”.
If I try “=UPPER([Name])” I always get the error message “The formula refers to a column that does not exist. Check the formula for spelling mistakes or change the non-existing column to an existing column.
Troubleshoot issues with Windows SharePoint Services.”

But at the document library I have the column “Name”. I also used the internal names like “FileLeafRef” but I failed.

Best regards
Thomas

By: Thomas Olsson

Thomas Olsson — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 14:05:19 +0000

Hi! I have a tricky question!
I have two columns called “Impact” and “Urgency” set to “choice” with three different options “low”, “medium”, “high”.

When a user sets for example “low” on the Impact and “low” on the Urgency I want to create a third column called PRIORITY that takes the to “low” values and sets a priority value.. 1-5
low +low = 1
low + medium = 2
medium + medium = 3
high + medium =4
high + high = 5

Is this possible!??????

/Thomas

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