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Jason_Nash
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{Business User Value} + {Time Criticality} +{Risk Reduction - Opportunity Enablement} / {Story Point Estimate}

The first part works great then I add the / and error
its nothing to do with the format of the fields as {Story Point Estimate} + {Business User Value} works fine… any ideas? its seem really odd to me

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For future-proofing and ensuring proper functionality in all cases, I’d recommend wrapping ALL of your field names that reference Single-Select fields with which you want to do math operations in the VALUE() function (including the other field names in the formula you just posted), to make the conversion from string to integer explicit. 6 months from now when something breaks and you go back to look at this and try to figure out what the heck is going on, you’ll be glad to have your formulas be as explicit as possible – don’t trust yourself to remember that all the other values are being implicitly converted, while the one divisor is being explicitly converted.

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What’s the error you’re getting?

Did you try wrapping the numerator in parentheses?

Are you dividing by zero?

Nope story point numbers which are selectable items the odd thing is that I can add them and - them away I can / them? it look like a bug to me personally

Can you post a screenshot showing all relevant fields/sample values?

And the error. @Jeremy_Oglesby asked about that above, and that might also provide clues.

Jason_Nash
6 - Interface Innovator
6 - Interface Innovator

This is why I think its a real bug this works {Business User Value} + {Time Criticality} +{Risk Reduction - Opportunity Enablement} + {Story Point Estimate}

This however does not
{Business User Value} + {Time Criticality} +{Risk Reduction - Opportunity Enablement} / {Story Point Estimate}

And Neither does
({Business User Value} + {Time Criticality} +{Risk Reduction - Opportunity Enablement}) / {Story Point Estimate}

And Tried
({Business User Value} + {Time Criticality} +{Risk Reduction - Opportunity Enablement}) / ({Story Point Estimate})
Just in case also still #ERROR!

Yep tired that… The Error is #ERROR!

Sounds like it could be related to the field type of one of your fields. Is one of your fields in the formula a Lookup or other non-number field?

Nope and if that was the case why would Adding them all work but dividing does not? They are all single select numbers FYI

This works
{Business User Value} + {Time Criticality} + {Risk Reduction - Opportunity Enablement} + {Story Point Estimate}

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