Formula in Help Section Not Working

Tim Dollmeyer

Hello,

I copied the formula that's given in the help section for the Year Function for selecting rows with the current year in a SUMIF formula and changed it to use my data, and I'm getting the INVALID DATA TYPE error. My date column is set as a date, and my column to sum is a number. What am I missing?

Here's the formula: =SUMIF([Sold Date]:[Sold Date], YEAR(@cell) = YEAR(TODAY()), [Units Sold]:[Units Sold])

And this is the help page: https://help.smartsheet.com/function/year

Thanks!

Jeff Reisman

https://community.smartsheet.com/discussion/97997/formula-in-help-section-not-working

I think this is just a minor syntax issue. Try this. I added parentheses around the equation part, containing it as a single criteria:

=SUMIF([Sold Date]:[Sold Date], (YEAR(@cell) = YEAR(TODAY())), [Units Sold]:[Units Sold])

Tim Dollmeyer

Thanks Jeff! I tried what you did and still no change. The strange thing is that one set of columns (I'm doing this with 2 sets of columns in my sheet, one set for Invoiced and one set for Paid) just started working when I went back into the sheet.