In Excel, I have this template for checking SMS format:
Your appointment is confirmed with [name] at [hh:mm] on [dd/mm/yy]. Please bring all your related documents.
The actual SMS will be the same except the tokens (delimited by brackets []) will replaced with actual values.
How can I check a list of SMSs if any SMS doesn't follow the previous template? I have multiple template with a list of SMS sent in one month.
If you have your input data in A2. You can use the following in B2:
=LET(texts, {"Your appointment is confirmed with "," at "," on ",
". Please bring all your related documents."},
SUMPRODUCT(--ISNUMBER(SEARCH(texts,A2)))=4)
LET is just to organize better the expression. It returns TRUE if all the input strings match, otherwise it returns FALSE. The rest is just to extend the formula down.
Here is the output:
Notes:
Excel doesn't have RegEx function, except via VBA. Check this link for this approach.
You can add additional checks for the token values introduced if you want, but based on your question, the above formula would be enough for your needs.
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First time asking a question and have learned a lot from this forum. I work in a weird industry and we are using NetSuite. I am having a hard time coming up with a criteria or formula for what I am trying to do. On any sales order we have the Business Source who could be the listing agent or the selling agent for a property. The business source is not always the listing agent or always the selling agent. So I am trying to do a search where (excuse the bad coding example):
If business source is the listing agent, then show the selling agent
If business source is the selling agent, then show the listing agent
From a sales perspective, we want to reach out to the other agent, even if they didn't direct the order our way, and thank them for working with us.
I hope I was somewhat clear...and thanks in advance!
Add a line in the Results tab and select Formula (text) under the Field column. In the Formula column add:
CASE WHEN {custbody_business_source} = {custbody_listing_agent} THEN {custbody_selling_agent} ELSE {custbody_listing_agent} END
You will need to replace the fields in braces {} with the correct IDs for the fields you're using. I have assumed that these fields all pull from the same list of records (contacts or customers) for the information they contain. It probably won't work, for example, if one is a select (List/Record) field and the others are Free Text. This simply compares the Business Source field with (arbitrarily) the Listing Agent and returns the Selling Agent if there's a match, otherwise it returns the Listing Agent. Note that this means the Listing Agent will be returned in any other circumstances also; for example if one of the compared fields is empty.
You could match the Business Source against both the agent fields explicitly and return some other value when neither match by extending the CASE statement a little:
CASE WHEN {custbody_business_source} = {custbody_listing_agent} THEN {custbody_selling_agent} WHEN {custbody_business_source} = {custbody_selling_agent} THEN {custbody_listing_agent} ELSE {somethingelse} END
or by using a DECODE instead:
DECODE({custbody_business_source}, {custbody_listing_agent}, {custbody_selling_agent}, {custbody_selling_agent}, {custbody_listing_agent}, {somethingelse})
DECODE has the following signature:
DECODE({expr}, search, result, [search, result]..., [default])
It compares expr with each search value one by one. If it finds a match it returns the corresponding result. If no match is found, the default is returned, or null if default is not specified.
I have a field in my excel spreadsheet that depends on several different fields to determine the calculation that should be made. I think I have my formula correct but I am not getting the appropriate responses so I know there must be something I am missing. Let me start by summarizing what I am attempting to do.
If D5=2, then I need to verify if $AI$12-AB14>(3/24) and return a T if it is or leave the field blank if not. Alternatively, if D5=1, then I have to also verify that Y14=Y and Z14=Y, and finally $AC$12-AA14>(3/24) and return a T if so, or leave the field blank if not.
(The reference to 3/24 is required as I am performing time calculations from data entry fields pulling from a userform)
What I am receiving for a response is 'True'. That is not an option so I suspect it is returning the result of a specific logical statement? Below is my formula:
=IF(AND(D5="2",$AI$12-AB14>(3/24),),"T","")
=IF(AND(D5="1",Y14="Y",Z14="Y",$AC$12-AA14>(3/24),),"T","")
I can't insert an image in comments, so I'll reply. This simplified example shows how it works:
And pay attention to D5 - are there really values 1 and 2 as text. If not, the quotation marks must be removed from the formula
I would like to check if anyone can help with the below.
I would like to have a validation formula for email addresses. After combing through the internet and other threads, I found something that works.
However, I'd like the data validation to check for comma and flag that as error too. The current formula only flag spaces.
Any advice/suggestion to tweak this formula?
=AND(FIND(“#”,A2),FIND(“.”,A2),ISERROR(FIND(” “,A2)))
To "tweak" your formula to also check for a comma, you can use an array constant:
EDIT: to correct formula to allow for its use in Data Validation (remove array constant)
=AND(ISNUMBER(FIND("#",A2)),ISNUMBER(FIND(".",A2)),ISERROR(OR(FIND(" ",A2),FIND(",",A2))))
I provide this only as a method of showing one way of testing to exclude multiple characters from a string. This is NOT, in my opinion, a good way to validate an email address.
Note that your formula, if it does NOT find an "#" or a ".", will return a #VALUE! error. If you would rather it return FALSE, suggest you wrap those FIND's in an ISNUMBER function.
However, and this is my opinion only, I think the best way to ensure that an email address is both valid and correct is to use a system which includes an activation email. That can avoid both typos and malformed data.
Of course, your formula will allow certain types of invalid emails. For example, it does not test that the # is in the middle of the string, nor the dot. Nor that the dot precedes the #. etc, etc, etc
E.g. there is a list with gazillion required fields and I want the users to be able to fill out whatever they can and save as a draft until they have full info? Is there a simple solution for this? Tia!
Option 1: Multiple Content Types
One approach is to have two different Content Types on your list: one for draft items and one for submitted ones.
Content types on the same list can have different settings for the same columns. This means you can make the fields optional on the "draft" content type while making them required on the "submitted" content type.
The downside is that it may not be intuitive for end users if they're required to manually change the "Content Type" field in order to publish their draft.
Option 2: List Validation Settings
Another approach is to use List Validation settings instead of making fields required.
List validation lets you specify an Excel like formula (from which you can reference column values) which must evaluate to true in order for the validation to succeed. If it evaluates to false, a validation error message is displayed instead (you can specify the text of that message) and the item cannot be saved.
Simplified Scenario: One Field
Suppose you have a field called First Field that you don't necessarily need to be filled out right away, and you also have a choice field called Status Field that's used to indicate whether an item is a draft version or is submitted (displaying either "Draft" or "Submitted").
You can set up a list validation formula that requires First Field to be filled in whenever the Status Field is changed to "Submitted".
The formula would look like this:
=If([Status Field]="Submitted",NOT(ISBLANK([First Field])),TRUE)
In plain English, that formula is saying:
If Status Field is equal to Submitted...
...Then the form is valid only if First Field is not blank.
Otherwise, the form is valid.
More Complex Scenario: Multiple Fields
To make that work for multiple fields, you can join conditions together using the OR() and AND() functions, in the format of OR(condtion1,condition2)
So instead of ISBLANK([First Field]) to check whether a field is blank, you'd have something like OR(ISBLANK([First Field]),ISBLANK([SecondField])) to check whether either of two fields is blank. (Replacing First Field and Second Field with your field titles as appropriate.
The formula would now look like this:
=If([Status Field]="Submitted",NOT( OR(ISBLANK([First Field]),ISBLANK([Second Field]))),TRUE)
Note that you can nest multiple OR() conditions together arbitrarily, in the format of OR(condition1, OR(condition2, OR(condition3, condition4))) (and so on indefinitely).
Offloading Formula Complexity to Calculated Columns
If you run into limits with the formula length, you can offload some of your condition calculations into their own calculated columns, then just refer to those column values from your validation formula.
This can also help keep your formula from looking so complex.
For example, for every field that you want to be required, you can create a calculated column with a formula of =NOT(ISBLANK([Column Name])) and name it something like "{Column Name} Is Valid". Then you can refer to those columns in your validation formula:
=If([Status Field]="Submitted",AND([Field1 Is Valid],AND([Field2 Is Valid],[Field3 Is Valid])),TRUE)
I have this as a few cells in excel 2010:
(source: gyazo.com)
There are a few things I am trying to accomplish, though they're really all variations of the same thing.
In both Price Paid and Price Returned, I have values that can either be formatted as "# (type)" or as an expression of the form "# (type)+# (type2) ...". What I'm trying to do is reduce the expressions from their current state into just numerical values. I've figured out how to do it if it is just the first case ("# (type)"), however I'm having issues with doing the second case, since the parse stops after the first instance of " ". Below I have the code that I'm using in both Numerical Paid and Numerical Returned. The ISNUMBER category is there just to show which things register as numbers and which don't.
Numerical Paid and Numerical Returned Code:
=INT(IF(ISNUMBER(D2),D2,LEFT(D2,FIND(" ",D2,1)-1)))
I did some more google searching and found that someone had already written a VBA function to do this. Lovely.
I've linked the source below.
http://www.vbusers.com/code/codeget.asp?ThreadID=624&PostID=1
All I had to do was replace the ".," with "+-/*", so that it'll handle all operations. Simple, elegant, and useful. Afterwards, I used the solution posted here (as an answer to another one of my questions):
How to make a cell equal to the value of an expression in another cell (Excel 2010)?
to evaluate the resulting string.
Thanks everyone.