Google表格：如何使用MATCH函数创建嵌套的IF语句？

Question

I have been looking for a solution to this for quite a few hours, but unfortunately I appear to be stuck. I am trying to automatically input data based on another sheet with three possible options. DEADLINE , PMC or FMC , but it keeps crashing with if it can't find the first result. It will say #N/A , and tells me it can't find the first value. Why doesn't it check for the other values?

=IFS((MATCH(J8,Faults!F3:F9,0)),"DEADLINE",(MATCH(J6,Faults!F3:F9,0)),"PMC",(MATCH(J4,Faults!F3:F9,0)),"FMC")

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

MATCH does not return TRUE or FALSE. It either returns a number (the position within the range) or a #N/A error.

IFS will throw an error and stop processing just as a nested IF will. Wrap all the match functions in ISNUMBER to bypass thrown #N/A errors on no match.

=IFS(isnumber(MATCH(J8, Faults!F3:F9, 0)),"DEADLINE", isnumber(MATCH(J6, Faults!F3:F9, 0)), "PMC", isnumber(MATCH(J4, Faults!F3:F9, 0)), "FMC", true, "other")

I've added a default of Other if none of the three matches are found.