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Suddenly most of the galleries and text items where filter and count formulas are used stopped working. It shows nothing and a warning states "Invalid argument type" where the "=" syntax is used. I.e CountIf('Open Critical Incidents',Status="Active") and Filter(Messages,Visibility="Visible"). Source is Sharepoint online lists.

 

My whole app is now not working cause of this error. It stopped working without me doing any change to the source or to the app,

 

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Asbjørn

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  • hpkeong Profile Picture
    2,944 on at

    Hi

     

    May you try change = to in or exactin and see what happens? and if possible,

    "Visible" in Visibility.

     

     

  • Community Power Platform Member Profile Picture
    on at
    Thanks for the suggestion! Tried; Filter(Messages, "Visible" in Visibility) but no Luck another error message on argument not supported Aswet
  • hpkeong Profile Picture
    2,944 on at

    Hi

     

    Too bad!

    May you try remove the files, and Add again?

    If not, try to re-create table and add again.

    It may due to datasources corruption, as it happened to me before.

     

    Thanks

  • Community Power Platform Member Profile Picture
    on at
    Hi, what do you mean by remove files? I have tried to remove connections and added them again, with no luck. The strange part is also that if I remove the filter in a gallery, the list shows all fine. So connections are working.
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    You can try like this

     

    CountIf('Open Critical Incidents',Status.Value="Active") and Filter(Messages,Visibility.Value="Visible").

     

    You need to add .Value property. Hope this will works for you

  • Community Power Platform Member Profile Picture
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    Thanks, the .Value worked!

    Strange that things like this just happens. Someone must have change the syntax qualifier.

  • MartyR Profile Picture
    4 on at

    Some additional information.  This happened to me when the data source was a SharePoint list and the SharePoint column type was defined as "Custom (menu to choose from)."  In that case, adding .Value fixed the problem.  SharePoint columns that were "Single line of text" continued to work without the .Value qualifier.  Adding .Value to a field derived from a "Single line of text column" generated an error.  Last week both Custom and Single Line Text fields worked properly without the qualifier.  In addition, the problem not only occurs with the comparisons operator (=) but also with the Text attribute of text fields. 

  • Community Power Platform Member Profile Picture
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    When I add the .value, I get the next error: invalid use of '.'

     

    [code]

    If(type.Value="All",Tickets,If(type.Value="Tickets older than 3 days", Filter(Tickets,   DateCreated <> datetype && DateCreated <> Text(Today()), DateCreated <> Text(DateAdd(Today(), -2)),DateCreated <> Text(DateAdd(Today(), -1))|| DateClosed <> datetype && DateClosed <> Text(Today()), DateClosed <> Text(DateAdd(Today(),-2)),DateClosed <> Text(DateAdd(Today(), -1))),If(type.Value="Tickets opened today",Filter(Tickets,datetype in DateCreated),If(type="Tickets closed today",Filter(Tickets,datetype in DateClosed),Filter(Tickets,type.Value in Status)))))

    [/code]

  • Community Power Platform Member Profile Picture
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     Hi, I have an invalid argument type error that suddenly appeared, this is my code, have tried reconnecting the source tables,

    table names are correct and also the column names in my table.

     

    Filter(Table_owssvr4, PPMID = GalleryCases.Selected.PPMID)

     

    Any help will be appreciated

     

     

  • Ethan0079 Profile Picture
    34 on at

    For me the .Value don't change the problem


    @Anonymous wrote:

    Thanks, the .Value worked!

    Strange that things like this just happens. Someone must have change the syntax qualifier.


     

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