This is a classic example of where a single experimental code column can save you a bunch of Glide computed columns. My use case: I have a column where the value in each row represents a duration in minutes, and I need to format that for display as hh:mm. So, for example… 2914 => 48:34 804 => 13:24 63 => 01:03 5 => 00:05 0 => blank As far as I could tell, none of the plugin columns will handle this. But it looks easy, right? Well, the best I could do with Glide computed columns was 6 (!!) columns :crazy_face: If anyone - @Jeff_Hager - can improve on that, please let me know. It went like this: Column 1: Math column to get the number of whole hours. Floor(total/60) Column 2: If-then-else column to zero pad the hours… – If hours < 10 then 0, else blank Column 3: Math column to get the remaining minutes. Mod(total,60) Column 4: If-then-else column to zero pad the minutes… – If mins < 10 then 0, else blank Column 5: Template column to stitch them together… {hh-padding}{hh}:{min-padding}{min} Column 6: If-then-else column to deal with the case where the total minutes is zero or empty… – If total is empty, then empty – If total equals 0, then empty – Else template column Which looked like: [Screen Shot 2021-12-29 at 9.56.29 AM] If it only had to be done once, then it’s not so bad. But for my use case I had to do this about 20 times :scream: After the 3rd or 4th time, I’d had enough. So decided to swap those 6 columns out for a single experimental code column… https://mcdarren.github.io/glide-mins-to-hhmm window.function = function (total) { if (total.value === undefined) return undefined; if (total.value === 0) return undefined; var hours = Math.floor(total.value/60); var mins = total.value % 60; return hours.toString().padStart(2, '0') + ":" + mins.toString().padStart(2, '0'); } Which results in: [Screen Shot 2021-12-29 at 9.57.39 AM] So that’s 5x20=100 computed columns saved with just a few lines of javascript :partying_face:

This had been my previous attempt from a while back. Definitely not elegant by any means. Your javascript solution makes way more sense. [image] Time duration not presenting correctly in glide chart stopwatch Ask for Help I took it a step further and included Days as well. You can exclude it if you don’t need it. It’s a little involved, but I’ll explain the best I can. Here is my results: [image] First we have the Duration column, which is obvious and what you already have. Next we have the Days column: [image] FLOOR(D)/100 This is simply taking the duration and dropping off the decimals. The division by 100 will be explained later. Next we have the Hours column: [image] FLOOR(MOD(D,1)*24)/100 Th…

What an elegant example that shows how a few lines of code can achieve more than no-code. Or maybe the same, but more efficiently. I still prefer your 6-column no-code solution, simply because it is accessible to me, whereas there is no way I would have been able to reproduce your code. :slight_smile:

[image] nathanaelb: I still prefer your 6-column no-code solution, yeah, I get that. I’m the same - I always prefer to get things done with standard computed columns where ever I can. But creating these same 6 columns over and over and over again was driving me absolute bonkers :crazy_face: I guess the nice thing about the Experimental Code column is that it becomes an extra bow for your arrow that you can pull out and use when you need it :wink:

I agree… Nocode is my preferred solution but sometimes a singular hyperformula or extract matching text plug-in column is more efficient.

[image] Darren_Murphy: But creating these same 6 columns over and over and over again was driving me absolute bonkers I agree, in some cases, it’s just more efficient. I have even created a macOS shortcut to access my Github URLs and quickly copy them to the clipboard for the experimental column. I love it.

oooh, please share? :slightly_smiling_face:

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/369ace3b767942a0881c2790855cf928 Let me know if you can access this link. [image] You can substitute your user name in place of mine (thinhdinhlca) and it should work well. I use it to directly grab my Pages URL instead of having to go to the specific repo to get the URL.

Format duration in minutes as hh:mm

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Jeff_Hager December 28, 2021, 5:45pm 2

This had been my previous attempt from a while back. Definitely not elegant by any means. Your javascript solution makes way more sense.

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Format duration in minutes as hh:mm

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