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IFS and SEARCH with three different return values
Hi!
A newbie on this forum and would never consider my self as an Excel expert 🙂 Plus I'm not very used to the IFSand SEARCH formulas, so I hope you guys out there might help me.
Got a list containing different Subscription descriptions. I'm trying to use the IFS combined with SEARCH in order to extract the subscription level as the return value. There's three different levels; Essential, Advantage and Premium and I want them to be the return value.
I'm able to get it work with two IFS/SEARCH in the formula, but when adding the third I'm told there are to many arguments in the function.
| Subscription Description (Search) | Return value | Formula used |
| On-Prem Advantage, 3Y Term Lic | Advantage | =IFERROR(IFS(SEARCH("Advantage";A16);"Advantage");IFS(SEARCH("Essential";A16);"Essential")) |
| On-Prem Essential, 5Y Term Lic | Essential | =IFERROR(IFS(SEARCH("Advantage";A17);"Advantage");IFS(SEARCH("Essential";A17);"Essential")) |
| On-Prem Premier, 3 Year Term License | =IFERROR(IFS(SEARCH("Advantage";A18);"Advantage");IFS(SEARCH("Essential";A18);"Essential");IFS(SEARCH("Premier";A18);"Premier")) |
So how do i navigate around this issue? Anybody out there that might help me with this formula?
rgds,
Per-Olav Sandbakk
For example:
=IFS(ISNUMBER(SEARCH("Advantage";A16));"Advantage";ISNUMBER(SEARCH("Essential";A16));"Essential";ISNUMBER(SEARCH("Premier";A16));"Premier";TRUE;"")
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Alternatively:
=IFERROR(LOOKUP(1000;SEARCH({"Advantage";"Essential";"Premier"};A16);{"Advantage";"Essential";"Premier"});"")
or
=TEXTJOIN("";TRUE;IF(ISNUMBER(SEARCH({"Advantage";"Essential";"Premier"};A16));{"Advantage";"Essential";"Premier"};""))
For example:
=IFS(ISNUMBER(SEARCH("Advantage";A16));"Advantage";ISNUMBER(SEARCH("Essential";A16));"Essential";ISNUMBER(SEARCH("Premier";A16));"Premier";TRUE;"")
I have a similar problem, but for the third condition, I want it to return a value for everything else. In other words, the Advantage and Essential arguments work for me, but then for the third variable, I want everything that isn't Advantage or Essential to be labeled as "Other". How would I do that please?
Using the same example:
=IFS(ISNUMBER(SEARCH("Advantage"; A16)); "Advantage"; ISNUMBER(SEARCH("Essential"; A16)); "Essential"; TRUE; "Other")
Please note that Per-Olav_Sandbakk uses semi-colon as list separator. If you use comma as list separator, change the formula to
=IFS(ISNUMBER(SEARCH("Advantage", A16)), "Advantage", ISNUMBER(SEARCH("Essential", A16)), "Essential", TRUE, "Other")
- Well that worked brilliantly! Thanks a bunch hans!
