Month and Actual Goal

A_Benincasa

Hello all looking to make a case statement, I could be using the wrong one. I want to have a Beast mode that states when a specific month then it states what the goal is, picture below.

Thank you in advance

GrantSmith

Why are you including the THEN '12' or THEN '9' clauses? This isn't valid syntax. You can only have one then clause for each where clause.

If you're wanting to combine both values together you can use CONCAT:

CASE WHEN MONTH(`Date`) IN (10,1,2) THEN CONCAT(`Actual Goal`, ' 12')
WHEN MONTH(`Date`) IN (11,12) THEN CONCAT(`Actual Goal`, ' 9')
END

GrantSmith

CASE WHEN MONTH(`Date`) IN (10,1,2) AND `Actual Goal` < 12 THEN 'Yes'
WHEN MONTH(`Date`) IN (11,12) THEN AND `Actual Goal` < 9 THEN 'Yes'
ELSE 'No'
END

GrantSmith

Why are you including the THEN '12' or THEN '9' clauses? This isn't valid syntax. You can only have one then clause for each where clause.

If you're wanting to combine both values together you can use CONCAT:

CASE WHEN MONTH(`Date`) IN (10,1,2) THEN CONCAT(`Actual Goal`, ' 12')
WHEN MONTH(`Date`) IN (11,12) THEN CONCAT(`Actual Goal`, ' 9')
END

MichelleH

@A_Benincasa The formula should work if you remove THEN `Actual Goal` from each line. In case statements WHEN identifies which rows to consider and THEN specifies what value to assign to those rows, so the formula will not work if there are multiple THENs for each WHEN.

A_Benincasa

@GrantSmith Thank you! I need to now add in a section that states, " Was Goal met Y/N" if it is less than those numbers above how would I include that in the beast mode?

GrantSmith

CASE WHEN MONTH(`Date`) IN (10,1,2) AND `Actual Goal` < 12 THEN 'Yes'
WHEN MONTH(`Date`) IN (11,12) THEN AND `Actual Goal` < 9 THEN 'Yes'
ELSE 'No'
END

A_Benincasa

The < sign does not work in a beast mode

GrantSmith

It should work, what type of error are you experiencing with the beast mode?

A_Benincasa

@GrantSmith it's stating there is a syntax error, I am thinking it's because it referencing month numbers and not the name, but when I swap it out I get the same error

GrantSmith

Can you paste in your beast mode?