Problems with formula AVGW

The formula AVGW is not working anymore with the column duration.

I mean when we write: AVGW(CHILDREN([% Planned]8), CHILDREN(Duration8)) and duration is in days 1d, 2d, etc... the formula doesn't count the column duration as a number.

This starts after the Smartsheet update!

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J. Craig Williams

Try putting this around your formula:

=IFERROR(all your old formula goes here minus the = sign, "error that used to work")

Craig

Caroline Souza

Craig,

But is this not a problem related to Smartsheet? Because it doesn't make sense, if a copy the duration value in a "text/number" column my formula works...

J. Craig Williams

Caroline,

Certainly sounds like a problem with Smartsheet.

They changed things and missed somethign in testing, it appears.

Craig

Caroline Souza

I know.. the problem is this formula we use in MANY MANY smartsheets here.

The complete formula is:

=IF(COUNT(CHILDREN([% Planned]6)) > 0, ROUND(AVGW(CHILDREN([% Planned]6), CHILDREN(Duration6)), 2), IF(Duration6 = 0, IF([End Date]6 < TODAY(), 1, 0), ROUND(IF([Days until today]6 / Duration6 > 1, 1, IF([Days until today]6 / Duration6 < 0, 0, [Days until today]6 / Duration6)), 2)))

And the problem appears when the line has children...

I don't know how to fix this!

J. Craig Williams

Caroline,

I just posted this:

https://community.smartsheet.com/discussion/release-2016-08-06-duration

It appears that the DURATION column is not accepted in many formulas.

If you can wait, Smartsheet is just getting their coffee's at work. Maybe they have a quick fix.

I've already got a work around, I think, but I don't want to implement it if I don't have too.

Not unless Smartsheet will pay me for the lost time.

Craig

Kennedy Stomps

Hi Caroline! This is somethign our Development team is looking into right now--it does appear to be a bug. Thanks for bringing this to our attention, I'll update this thread when I have more information about resolution.

Craig, I think the issue you reported in your post is a little different, so I've responded there!

Kennedy Stomps

Hi Caroline-- Just wanted to let you know that our developers released a fix for this bug last night so the issue should now be resolved, let me know if you don't see this fixed on your side

Caroline Souza

Hi Kennedy

Thank you very much! Now it is working!