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Filters on mixed date and text columns miss rows

Date-range and text filters on imported or mixed-type columns return wrong or empty results.

Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.

4 public reports · first reported 22 October 2023 · last reported 9 May 2024

Idea report · $9 · No contacts · All sales final

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What's going wrong

Users pulling transactions or sales data from other sheets with QUERY and IMPORTRANGE report that date-range filters are ignored and that columns mixing codes with words cannot be filtered by pattern.

AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports. The idea report has the full summary.

In the idea report

  • The full summary.
  • The products the 4 reports are about, and how many came each month.
  • Related problems.

No business has been found with this problem yet, so the report has no contacts. All sales are final — no refunds. Pricing.