Using conditions

Conditions are ways of carrying out a calculation to provide a true or false outcome. They are used to provide branches in logic, so if one condition is met, then action A will ensue. If not, then something else will happen.

If

The most common and useful condition is the If function, which takes in three arguments:

• The test
• What to do if the test returns true
• What to do if the test returns false

In the following example, you will see that we can also combine the outputs of other functions into our condition to return a different output:

If(Text(Today(),"dddd") = "Saturday","Weekend :)","Weekday :(")

Figure 6.17: An example of an If function being used to change the output of a label

There will be occasions where your condition will depend on multiple inputs being compared to provide the evaluation. Multiple conditions will always be either AND or OR in nature and can be defined using this syntax:

• AND / &&
• OR / |...