Why is this column formula returning 'External' when the email obviously does contain 'iris' ?

Steve_Iris

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10/15/24 edited 10/15/24 in Formulas and Functions

The contacts columns is set to allow multiples

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Steve_Iris ✭

10/15/24

It seems to be that it can't interrogate contact lists very well

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David Tutwiler Overachievers Alumni

10/15/24

CONTAINS does not work well with contact lists. You can use FIND instead and it should work. Here is an example you can try:
=IF(FIND("iris", [Assigned To]@row) > 0, "iris", "External")

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