COUNTIFS using current month

David Acord

Hi all,

I've been doing some searching on here and can't find the solution to my issue.

I have a smartsheet which has four columns. Three of them may have a name (text/number), the fourth is date only. I'm trying to run a formula that detects the total count of name X from columns 1-3, in the current month.

My formula is as follows, but I keep getting "INCORRECT ARGUMENT SET". I'm thinking it's something to do with the fact there's multiple columns to check the name against AND a date field, but I can't work out what I should do about it.

=COUNTIFS([Developer Assigned Date]:[Developer Assigned Date], IF(ISDATE(@cell), MONTH(@cell)) = MONTH(TODAY()), [Developer Assigned]:[OLT Developer Assigned], "David Acord")

Column 1 = Developer Assigned (text/number)

Column 2 = Secondary Developer Assigned (text/number)

Column 3 = OLT Developer Assigned (text/number)

Column 4 = Developer Assigned Date (date)

Paul Newcome

The issue is that your ranges do not match. one range is multiple columns and the other range is a single column (column type does not matter in this particular case). I would suggest a helper column where you join your three text/number columns and then incorporate a FIND/CONTAINS/HAS (whichever best suits you) in your COUNTIFS. My suggestion would be a multi-select dropdown for the Join Column and a HAS function in the formula.

=COUNTIFS([Developer Assigned Date]:[Developer Assigned Date], IFERROR(MONTH(@cell), 0) = MONTH(TODAY()), [Join Column]:[Join Column], HAS(@cell, "David Acord"))

Paul Newcome

The issue is that your ranges do not match. one range is multiple columns and the other range is a single column (column type does not matter in this particular case). I would suggest a helper column where you join your three text/number columns and then incorporate a FIND/CONTAINS/HAS (whichever best suits you) in your COUNTIFS. My suggestion would be a multi-select dropdown for the Join Column and a HAS function in the formula.

=COUNTIFS([Developer Assigned Date]:[Developer Assigned Date], IFERROR(MONTH(@cell), 0) = MONTH(TODAY()), [Join Column]:[Join Column], HAS(@cell, "David Acord"))

David Acord

That did it! Thanks so much @Paul Newcome - you do amazing work!

Paul Newcome

Happy to help. 👍️