{"id":3509,"date":"2023-04-12T15:37:04","date_gmt":"2023-04-12T15:37:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quebit.com\/askquebit\/headcount-or-new-hire-formula-returns-error-in-workday-adaptive-planning\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T17:51:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T17:51:21","slug":"headcount-or-new-hire-formula-returns-error-in-workday-adaptive-planning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quebit.com\/askquebit\/headcount-or-new-hire-formula-returns-error-in-workday-adaptive-planning\/","title":{"rendered":"How do I fix a Headcount or New Hire Formula that Returns Error in Workday Adaptive Planning?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When viewing the calculated Headcount or New Hire accounts on a standard sheet you may receive <em>\u201cError: This formula refers to a time period which does not exist<\/em>\u201d:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-731\" src=\"https:\/\/quebit.com\/askquebit\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/HR1-min.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"842\" height=\"48\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-732\" src=\"https:\/\/quebit.com\/askquebit\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/HR2j-min.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"521\" height=\"82\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>When using dot notation, users will get the above error on the Headcount formula when an Employee\u2019s Start Date is prior to the periods that are in Adaptive Insights.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of the below formula for Headcount:<\/p>\n<p>iff(this.version.positionof(this.month) &gt;= this.version.positionof(ROW.StartDate.month)<\/p>\n<p>and (isblank(ROW.EndDate)<\/p>\n<p>or this.version.positionof(this.month) &lt;= this.version.positionof(ROW.EndDate.month) ),<\/p>\n<p>1, 0 )<\/p>\n<p>Try using:<\/p>\n<p>=iff(ROW.Partial_Headcount&gt;0, 1, 0 )<\/p>\n<p>Users will get the above error on the New Hire formula as well.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of:<\/p>\n<p>iff(this.version.positionof(this.month) = this.version.positionof(ROW.StartDate.month), 1, 0)<\/p>\n<p>Try using:<\/p>\n<p>iff(ROW.Headcount[time=this-1]=0 and ROW.Headcount = 1, 1, 0 )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When viewing the calculated Headcount or New Hire accounts on a standard sheet you may receive \u201cError: This formula refers to a time period which does not exist\u201d: &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; When using dot notation, users will get the above error on the Headcount formula when an Employee\u2019s Start Date is prior to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[41,69,63],"class_list":["post-3509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-workday-adaptive-planning","tag-troubleshooting","tag-workday-adaptive-planning","tag-workday-adaptive-planning-troubleshooting"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>How do I fix a Headcount or New Hire Formula that Returns Error in Workday Adaptive Planning? 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