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Expressions that yield variant data-type cannot be used to define calculated columns.

Fahad5 — Sat, 18 Dec 2021 02:16:06 GMT

Hi all,

Please help below function is getting error,

Please help me.

Partition-1 = IF(ISBLANK(TOKENFLEX_COUNT[Partition_1]),FORMAT(TODAY()-1,"yyyymmdd"),TOKENFLEX_COUNT[Partition_1])

Re: Expressions that yield variant data-type cannot be used to define calculated columns.

VahidDM — Sat, 18 Dec 2021 03:47:28 GMT

Hi Fahad5

Try this:

Partition-1 = IF( ISBLANK( [Partition_1] ), FORMAT( TODAY() - 1, "yyyymmdd" ), [Partition_1] )

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Re: Expressions that yield variant data-type cannot be used to define calculated columns.

AlexisOlson — Sat, 18 Dec 2021 20:24:55 GMT

You'll get this error if the result-if-true and the result-if-false arguments of IF return different data types, for example, text when true and a number when false.

If you want to return text in the case of a blank, then you need to also return text when it's not blank too. You could use FORMAT there as well. For example,

Partition-1 = VAR Partition = TOKENFLEX_COUNT[Partition_1] RETURN IF ( ISBLANK ( Partition ), FORMAT ( TODAY () - 1, "yyyymmdd" ), FORMAT ( Partition, "Standard" ) )

Re: Expressions that yield variant data-type cannot be used to define calculated columns.

Anonymous — Mon, 27 Dec 2021 02:49:07 GMT

Hi Fahad5,

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