Hi Community!
I am trying to build a Buddy system. The idea is that each week, users that want to have a buddy to talk to, go to this table and add their name and then they get a buddy assigned.
In said table, I created a button column, and I used this formula [Buddy Log].nth(roundup(random() * [Buddy Log].count(),0)) to randomly assign a buddy.
Now I am facing some issues I’d love help fixing:
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A cannot be assigned to A. So we need to have the formula exclude the user’s name from the randomize list;
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All the users are added to the table. So there will be one row for each A, B, C, … If in the A row, A is assigned to B, in the B row, B needs to be automatically assigned to A, so it makes sense and people are paired together;
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If B is assigned to A, B and A cannot be assigned to any other letter/user. I guess the exception to this would be if we had an uneven number of users, and in this situation we would have 3 users paired together, so no one is left out.
Here is my doc, in case it’s useful to visualise. https://coda.io/d/Buddy-system_dg7uzU30I52
Can anyone help please?
Thanks!