Force the user to input value in cell based on another cells value

Question

I'm currently working on the following excel workbook that is to be used for recording test cases:

If the user enters fel in the F column, it will color it red. Fel means fault " (in swedish) so I want to force the tester to register this error in the bug tracking system whenever one of the test-cases fails. The column I should contain which ID to this error in the bug tracking system. So what I'm trying to achieve is:

If the tester have entered fel in the column F, it should force or make the tester aware of that no ID have been entered in the I column. One idea is to color the corresponding I cell red if the F cell contains fel and the I cell is empty, and when the tester enters something in the I cell the red color goes away.

This is what I've done so far:

=IF(AND(F5="Fel",I5=ISEMPTY(TRUE)),)

which I use with conditional formatting but I'm unable to get it to work. Also the cell values are hard coded, how could i make the condition be valid for a certain column with a corresponding row's cell.

Also, I'm open to suggestions if there is a better way then to just color that cell red to make the user aware of that he needs to enter something in the I column

Answer 1

I am taking the example of Cells F1:F10 . Please amend as applicable.

There is no formula as ISEMPTY . Use ISBLANK

Use this formula

=AND($F1="Fel",ISBLANK($I1))

To ensure that it works for all cells in that range ( F1:F10 ) use $ for the column only thereby making it constant and the row a variable

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