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Formula Chips
Formula Chips
Learn about all the different icon types in Coda and how the correspond to data-types for better formula writing
This is a Coda formula chip
Formula chips represent some sort of data or information within your doc, and they give you clues about what that data is and where it is coming from. Formula chips are absolutely essential to writing complex, clean, and efficient formulas. Let’s dive in to learn about their unique parts.
This is what makes up a chip
Each formula chip has the following three properties
Icon
Color
Words
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Icon
The icon on a formula chip is arguably the most important piece of information you should be paying attention to when building formulas. Icons tell you what type of data the chip itself holds
Here is a list of all the possible icon types you may come across and what types of data they correspond to
List of Actions
Action
List of Boolean Values
Boolean Value
List of currency
Currency
List of dates
Date
List of durations
Duration
Table
List of images
Image
List of numbers
Number
List of percentages
Percent
List of row-values
Row-value
List of text
Text
List of URLs
URL
List of people
People
The most important thing to notice when looking at a formula chip is whether or not that chip is holding a single value, or a list of values.
For the most part, Coda adds a shadow that makes it looks like two of the single values stacked together as seen below
Notice though, that because the formula chip indicates it is a list we must use list operators to find out what is inside the list. For example, if you wanted to know if you had a $50 expense in your table:
Color
The color of a chip shows you where the data is sourced from. Meaning, if everything is green (like in this screenshot below), all the data is coming from the same table
The moment you see a second, or third, or fourth color, this is your clue that this data is coming from a different source. Take for example this formula:
This formula has both green and pink chips. The green color indicates that each one of those data types is connected to the same source, which in this case is a table called Tasks by chips. The Pink chip indicates a different source, which in this case is a control like this one: →
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Wording
Lastly, each chip has some words on it! The words refer the name given to the data whether that be the name of table, control, column, etc.
This chip lets us know that it contains a list of date data specifically from the Due Date column inside of a table called Tasks by chips.
Formula Chip Quiz
Try your hand at this quick formula chip quiz! Determine whether the icon indicates the chip is a list or a single value. Then select what data type it holds!
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