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Welcome to Formulas 101

Formulas 101

17 lessons, 49 minutes

Coda offers tons of formulas that you can use to customize your doc. While you don’t need to use formulas to build a great Coda doc, they can be a fun tool to add to your toolbox. In this course you will learn how to:
  • Structure of Coda formulas
  • Use the five most valuable formulas
  • Troubleshoot when things go wrong
  • Recognize when you could use a formula in a doc
Before your get started on the videos:
  1. Copy this companion doc. This is where you will do all of your practice activities.
  2. Be sure to log into Coda.

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The Coda formula language

An overview of what to expect in the Formulas 101 course and a walkthrough of the companion doc.

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Formulas 101

A comprehensive introduction to the Coda formula language allowing to unlock to power of working with data in Coda.

17 lessons, 49 minutes total

Welcome to Formulas 101

0:52

2

The Coda formula language

5:50

3

What makes Coda's formulas different?

4:16

4

How to write formulas

4:39

5

How to read a formula

1:32

6

Dot operator explained

1:17

7

Filter formula

3:05

8

thisRow formula

1:42

9

User formula

2:54

10

Concatenate and compose

2:13

11

Contains and Matches formulas

3:31

12

If and SwitchIf formulas

4:16

13

Formulas and text

2:03

14

Using the formula editor

1:18

15

Troubleshooting formulas

5:48

16

Editing formulas

0:25

17

Build a dashboard

3:56

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