Is there any way to calculate actual values for formula in the app?
It’s client side calculation, hence not returned by GraphQL API, but is there some other facility to get the actual value (in the Monday SDK for example, where you’d supply formula string, column values, and get result) ?
Cheers,
Yes, there is.
Take a look at General Caster in monday.com Apps Marketplace.
That was quick @rob. I saw your app but I meant some Monday native way of doing this. I understand Gen Castor doesn’t use Formula column, so users would need to add new column and translate Formula into your syntax.
Edit: I worded it wrong - it’s not new column, but an action, but still - you need to rewrite your formula in action settings.
Yes, or you can use the General Caster recipe that uses an existing formula column.
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@rob The problem I have now is large existing boards. Castor gets triggered when column updates, but it’s hard to update say 1000s rows manually. Is there any way to trigger update for all rows?
@dsilva or @dipro - Could you weight in on whether there’s way to get formula result for a row in an app without reimplementing the whole client side algo you have for that?
Would be cool to have this in SDK for example.
General CastEr recipes are triggered on column change in a single item.
Would be good to have some method of triggering it for the whole board I guess. E.g. first invocation on the board where Castor is added could do that (I realise there’s no good place in the UI to add this kind of feature).
General Caster has merits. But it does not adress the core problem.
A monday.com app should be able to use a formula column for weight (without having to extract the data of the monday server), just like mondays own framework can. Keep in mind that a lot of apps doesnt mutate data, all they do is take existing data or column values and display it differently.
Not being able to utilize the formula column is very limiting.
Attention @VladMonday
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This thread seems to be a duplicate of Mutation: create_column for a 'formula' type column - #8 by dipro, where Dipro explains potential approach.
TL;DR: Apps need to implement formula calculations from scratch as there’s no tools from Monday.
Monday is not able to provide any information on what tools are used to parse and calculate formulas, so it’s up to app developers to choose.
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Hey folks! We don’t have a native way of parsing and calculating a formula just yet unfortunately, but it’s been really highly requested.
I’ll pass your vote for this feature along to our product team.
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Hi Dipro,
Any news on this?
Hello @GCavin and welcome to the community!
I hope you like it here 
As of today, we have no news about this. There is no native way of parsing and calculating a formula.
I have added your vote to the request 
Cheers,
Matias
Any news yet!!!
Its now nearly 4 years since this posted started !!
Why can’t I extract the formula result in to another column without using third party integrations?
The inability of this function, fundamentally makes the formula column a useless calculator, whilst I can see the results there’s very little I can do with them.
Come on Monday.dev get your * act together.
*insert swear word as required
Hello there @ManicMondayUser,
This is not yet available, but it might be in the future! Of course, if it gets available, we will announce it 
Hi Everyone
I am super excited to share the formula column value is now available to read using the Platform API!
This open the doors to a lot of new possibilities, such as creating brand new types of apps or extending existing ones to now also support the formula column.
This of course eliminates the need to calculate it in the client.
Looking forward to your feedback.
Happy Coding!
The notes mention no mirrors in formulas, but what about mirrors of formulas?
Also what about formulas that reference other formulas?
(Just asking here so there is clarity on what to expect - I’ll probably start testing it all myself)
Mirror behavior remains the same.
Formula on formula works, so long the inner formula does not have mirror reference 