Formula stopped working when going from QV10 to 11

[mellerbeck]

This is more of just a curiosity but

I used to use

SubStringCount(GetFieldSelections([Column Name], ',' ,Count(Distinct [Column Name])), 'Item')

I think that the Count(Distinct [Column Name]) is returning a different value (type?) than it used to.

Although if I create a variable with

=Count(Distinct [Column Name]) and then reference it like this

SubStringCount(GetFieldSelections([Column Name], ',' ,$myvariable), 'Item')

then it works, strange

Any thoughts?

-Michael

[Miguel_Angel_Baeyens]

Hi Michael,

It seems it only accepts numeric values, and although Count() will return a numeric value it's not itself a number. That will work as expected as well with the dollar expansion

SubStringCount(GetFieldSelections([Column Name], ',', $(=Count(Distinct [Column Name]))), 'Item')

That happened in version 10 SR3 update 9061 with the Min() function, when the thrid parameter must be a numeric value instead of an expression returning a numeric value. I use the dollar expansion/macro expansion $(=) there as well.

Hope that makes some sense.

Miguel