COLLECT not looking within multiselect criterion range

Rob Mooney

I'm using a combination of JOIN and COLLECT to get some data, but the COLLECT is only looking at the first value in my Multiselect column for the criterion range.

I have a sheet that lists value similar to below:

Name Category

A 1,2

B 2,3

C 1,3

What I'm trying to do is have another sheet display it this way:

Category Name

1 A,C

2 A,B

3 B,C

My current formula is only displaying it this way:

Category Name

1 A,C

2 B

3 <Blank>

Any suggestions?

Paul Newcome

That's because I missed a portion of the CONTAINS function. My apologies.

=JOIN(COLLECT({Name Range}, {Category Range}, CONTAINS(Category@row, @cell)), ", ")

Paul Newcome

Can you provide your current formula?

Something like this should work...

=JOIN(COLLECT({Name Range}, {Category Range}, CONTAINS(Category@row)), ",")

Rob Mooney

=JOIN(COLLECT({Range 1}, {Range 2}, Objective@row), ", ")

Basically the same as your example, but whenever I use the CONTAINS(), I get an "INVALID OPERATION"

Paul Newcome

That's because I missed a portion of the CONTAINS function. My apologies.

=JOIN(COLLECT({Name Range}, {Category Range}, CONTAINS(Category@row, @cell)), ", ")

Rob Mooney

That did it! Thank you so much!

Paul Newcome

Happy to help. 👍️