Google Sheets: SUMIF returns "Argument must be a range" error

Michelleaneous

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The aim is to get the sum from another file based on a criteria from the "main" sheet. Importrange function was used to retrieve data from the other file (see formula below) but it will give an error message: "Argument must be a range"

Excel Formula:
=SUMIF(IMPORTRANGE("https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1iKwpbmnGuNBk7QJwi3m6RyKZXZ3fWexK/edit#gid=1466490795","Sheet1!A2:A"),B43,IMPORTRANGE("https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1iKwpbmnGuNBk7QJwi3m6RyKZXZ3fWexK/edit#gid=1466490795","Sheet1!E2:E))"))
 

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this may not be relavant, as not sure of the importrange
BUT
you have
"Sheet1!A2:A"
so not a range
"Sheet1!A2:A10000"
is a range - is that why you have the error

"Argument must be a range"​

 
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this may not be relavant, as not sure of the importrange
BUT
you have
"Sheet1!A2:A"
so not a range
"Sheet1!A2:A10000"
is a range - is that why you have the error

"Argument must be a range"​

updated the range as suggested above but still get the same error
 
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IMPORTRANGE returns an array and SUMIF requires actual ranges on a sheet. You'd have to return the IMPORTRANGE results to a sheet and then refer to those cells in the SUMIF formulas.
 
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It seems that this formula doesn´t work when you retrieve the data from an external Google Sheets file, but I've tried this formula instead and it worked for me:

=SUM(FILTER(IMPORTRANGE($D$2, "C2. Pagos S10!$G$4:$G"), IMPORTRANGE($D$2, "C2. Pagos S10!$A$4:$A") = K$7))
 
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