Comments on: Share your HTML calculated columns http://blog.pathtosharepoint.com/2008/09/15/share-your-html-calculated-columns/ Tips and best practices for SharePoint end users Tue, 07 Feb 2012 17:36:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Anthony Hayson http://blog.pathtosharepoint.com/2008/09/15/share-your-html-calculated-columns/#comment-3008 Wed, 26 Aug 2009 23:58:21 +0000 http://pathtosharepoint.wordpress.com/?p=163#comment-3008 Hi

I am trying to use traffic lights based on the results of 2 columns.

Would you please assist me.

First column is system importance (gold, silver bronze). Second column is DR Present (yes,no)

I started with this (I am not a programmer so sorry if it looks bad). Tried using IF(AND but couldn’t get it to work.

I only get green showing, the red does not come up. I haven’t done the silver and bronze categories yet.

thanks

Anthony

=”<DIV style='font-weight:bold; font-size:24px; color:"&IF([System Criticality]="(1) gold",IF([DR@Bondi]<="yes","green",IF([System Criticality]<="(1) gold",IF([DR@Bondi]•”

]]> By: Christophe http://blog.pathtosharepoint.com/2008/09/15/share-your-html-calculated-columns/#comment-269 Thu, 06 Nov 2008 00:34:49 +0000 http://pathtosharepoint.wordpress.com/?p=163#comment-269 OK. In your case, my suggestion would work too (12/8/16/13) if you choice list is stable.
The maximum for a CHOOSE value is 29.

]]> By: Alex http://blog.pathtosharepoint.com/2008/09/15/share-your-html-calculated-columns/#comment-268 Wed, 05 Nov 2008 20:16:28 +0000 http://pathtosharepoint.wordpress.com/?p=163#comment-268 Dear Christophe,

That’s a need trick.

I solved my problem by using the first 2 letters of each choice so the function would still be “readable”:

=Created+IF(LEFT([Request type];2)=”No”;0;IF(LEFT([Request type];2)=”Qu”;2;IF(LEFT([Request type];2)=”Pr”;1;IF(LEFT([Request type];2)=”Mi”;5;99))))

The list is:
Notification
Question
Problem or Issue
Miscellaneous

Where the response time for Notification is 0 days, Question is 2 days, etc.

Thanks for you response!

]]> By: Christophe http://blog.pathtosharepoint.com/2008/09/15/share-your-html-calculated-columns/#comment-263 Tue, 04 Nov 2008 03:11:38 +0000 http://pathtosharepoint.wordpress.com/?p=163#comment-263 The answer to last week’s exercise: use the CHOOSE function together with the LEN function, which returns the number of characters in a text string. So 3 is for red, 4 for blue, etc.
The same method can be applied to:
- High/Medium/Low (4/6/3)
- Yes/No (3/2)
- Open/Resolved/Closed (4/8/6)
- etc.

Alex, see if this works for you. However, if you expect your choice list to be updated in the future, I think that numbering the items remains the safest choice.

]]> By: Christophe http://blog.pathtosharepoint.com/2008/09/15/share-your-html-calculated-columns/#comment-247 Fri, 31 Oct 2008 11:27:44 +0000 http://pathtosharepoint.wordpress.com/?p=163#comment-247 An exercise: I have a choice list with 4 colors: green, blue, yellow, red. How can I determine the selection without ifs (nested or not)?

]]> By: Alex http://blog.pathtosharepoint.com/2008/09/15/share-your-html-calculated-columns/#comment-246 Fri, 31 Oct 2008 10:05:12 +0000 http://pathtosharepoint.wordpress.com/?p=163#comment-246 I have a question and maby someone knows what code to use in a “calculated colomn”:

If you want to detemine the selection in a colomn of the choice type you can number the items and then use choose to determine what is selected:
[1] Item #1
[2] Item #2
[3] Item #3
[4] Item #4
for example: =CHOOSE(RIGHT(LEFT([Colomn],2),1),”#1″,”#2″,”#3″,”#4″)

But in this example you need to “number” the selection to accomplish this. How can I (without using al lot of nested if’s) determine what option is selected?

Thanks, Alex.

]]> By: Christophe http://blog.pathtosharepoint.com/2008/09/15/share-your-html-calculated-columns/#comment-149 Fri, 03 Oct 2008 00:25:22 +0000 http://pathtosharepoint.wordpress.com/?p=163#comment-149 Lynnda, e-mail me your formulas and I’ll take a look (Christophe@PathToSharePoint.com).

]]> By: Lynnda Harley http://blog.pathtosharepoint.com/2008/09/15/share-your-html-calculated-columns/#comment-146 Thu, 02 Oct 2008 20:03:24 +0000 http://pathtosharepoint.wordpress.com/?p=163#comment-146 I created a calculated field Score that mulitplies another field and then gives total (this works fine). I have created another calculated field Total Score to add html background color from the – the calculated field Score….

I have the html as indicated in Applying Color to sharepoint lists – I want to use nested If statements (IF(score>21, “Green”,IF(score45,”Red”))) then use the rest of the code for background in your list. I have not been able to get this to work…thoughts on this. Thank you

]]> By: Peter http://blog.pathtosharepoint.com/2008/09/15/share-your-html-calculated-columns/#comment-109 Fri, 26 Sep 2008 02:34:04 +0000 http://pathtosharepoint.wordpress.com/?p=163#comment-109 First off, this is great work that you have done. I have really used your work and have made a great Dashboard based upon this.

I added to your Progress Bar example. I am looking at several fields. I am looking at the [% Completed], [Process Status], and [Progress].

[Edited by Christophe]
Peter’s example is now available as a separate post:
http://pathtosharepoint.wordpress.com/2008/09/29/another-example-of-progress-bar/
[/Edited by Christophe]

Keep up the great work and hope this is helpful to others.

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