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Identifying Dates
The 'Any' datatype isn't a particularly useful one if you can avoid it.
I suspect there's an implicit conversion to date going on for some of the values that have double figures for day but it can't convert the single figure days.
If you can get the column in text format first (quite early in the Steps) (and maybe pad the start for single figure days) you'll have a better chance.
I think you might have to look at the 2nd 'if' clause (it's different than the first) also.
And it might have been better if you had provided the DateStarted column and type since that's the one that's in the formula.
Community ChampionThe 'Any' datatype isn't a particularly useful one if you can avoid it.
I suspect there's an implicit conversion to date going on for some of the values that have double figures for day but it can't convert the single figure days.
If you can get the column in text format first (quite early in the Steps) (and maybe pad the start for single figure days) you'll have a better chance.
I think you might have to look at the 2nd 'if' clause (it's different than the first) also.
And it might have been better if you had provided the DateStarted column and type since that's the one that's in the formula.
Thank you, adding the extra step to make the column text works. For some reason it didn't work, maybe I was doing something wrong.
Sorry about the screen shot, I made a copy of it, so I could put it in a screen shot together.
