COUNTIF problems with data types

Kent Vaughn

( I have looked extensively to see what issue I'm having but cannot find an adequate answer ) 

 

=COUNTIF(StartDate:StartDate, MONTH(@cell) = 2)

 

Task: Just count the rows where a Date Field is FEB    ( we'll use StartDate as the field and it is a DATE field )    -----    The result I get is #INVALID DATA TYPE 

 

Why is SS indicating a problem here? 

 

https://app.smartsheet.com/b/publish?EQBCT=5da69588764148a1850fbebfe43d7e7b

 

 

 

 

J. Craig Williams

This one has me stumped.

The error is coming from blank dates.

 

This is not how it was working previously. I'm investigating (but am not a Smarsheet employee)

 

Craig

Kent Vaughn

J. Craig  - Thanks!   Yes, I also concluded that if I excluded the blanks it seemed to work fine.   I joke to my team, "I love SS, I hate SS".  This weekend has been that example - trying to do what should be simple conditional logic ends up being an exercise in frusturation.   Makes it hard to convince others to migrate solutions to SS. 

 

-- Kent 

 

 

Taylor F

Hello Kent, 

 

Craig is correct by using the IFERROR. When the COUNTIF is checking the blank rows to see what month the cell is in, it will return a #INVALID DATA TYPE error. Placeing IFERROR around MONTH(@cell) and setting it to 0 will allow it to be skipped. 

 

Taylor

J. Craig Williams

Kent,

 

Try this:

 

=COUNTIF(StartDate:StartDate, IFERROR(MONTH(@cell), 0) = 2)

 

My notes indicated this worked without the IFERROR() but I can not get it to again.

 

Hope it gets better for you.

 

Craig