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    ExcelForum Firewall is blocking my formula?

    this is a test to see if i can post on this thread, another on i'm working on keeps redirecting me to a firewall block with "HTML Content not allowed"
    Last edited by Speshul; 03-27-2017 at 02:47 PM. Reason: better title
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    Re: firewall blocked

    Interesting. apparently what I'm trying to post is causing the error? It does it here too. There's nothing out of the ordinary about it, and i took out all the Bold/Italic/Color codes on the whole post. It's just a choose/vlookup/date manipulation formula

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    Re: firewall blocked

    Looks like it's the formula itself, I can't comment if i include the formula I used to solve the problem someone was having.

    It's a simple VLOOKUP/CHOOSE with date manipulation with a nested array {}'s in the Vlookup (2c 5r size), and is being blocked by the firewall at XF?

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    Re: firewall blocked

    {"COM",1;"Multi-COM",2;"Monthly",3;"Semi-Annual",4;"Annual",5}


    weird. that's the only non-completely-normal part of the formula.

    all other formulas nested are: choose, text, vlookup, if, day, month, year, today


    thoughts? Is there an admin around I can email the formula to directly to take a look at what might be causing it? I can't send it in a PM on here either... admins only...I'd be emailing from work so i'd prefer not to email some random person ;D
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    Re: ExcelForum Firewall is blocking my formula?

    I had that problem last week with a "less than" symbol in a formula. I separated it from the preceding and following characters with an extra space and it posted ok.
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    Re: ExcelForum Firewall is blocking my formula?

    I do have a less-than in the formula....


    =CHOOSE(TEXT(VLOOKUP(F2,{"COM",1;"Multi-COM",2;"Monthly",3;"Semi-Annual",4;"Annual",5},2,0),"0"),H2,TEXT(IF(DAY(TODAY())<15,DATE(YEAR(TODAY()),MONTH(TODAY()),15),DATE(YEAR(TODAY()),MONTH(TODAY())+1,15)),"m/d/yyyy"),H2,IF(H2_<_TODAY(),DATE(YEAR(H2),MONTH(H2)+6,DAY(H2)),H2),H2)




    Yay! Thanks!


    Interestingly, I only had to change one of them? :o
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    ExcelForum (Sucuri ) Firewall is blocking my formula? - HTML Wonk < Poo :(

    Hi Speshul, ( Hi Ben )
    Quote Originally Posted by Speshul View Post
    ....Interestingly, I only had to change one of them?? :o
    There is a few things that that kick in the firewall. The less than sign followed by at least 4 characters ( but not all characters ) is the most common one.
    So like these will not post *anywhere
    <_TOD__<TODA __<TODAYJKG
    But these are OK
    <15,D __ <1,5, __ <TOD __ < hsgfjhgfg __ <T ODAYDGD __ <TOD AY __ <[ODA __ <[ODAYGJHG __ <TOD[
    ( In the first three , ( <_TOD__<TODA __<TODAYJKG ) , to get them to post I use another workaround – the “black character trick”. For details of that and other similar problems and work a rounds see the links below. The usually applied workaround is to add a space after the < ___ < bfdg )
    *Posting in different Sub Forums and things like wrapping in code tags usually make no difference for most of these things.
    _.....
    Alan


    Previous Threads and Posts on this and similar stuff showing the differen problems and solutions ( work a rounds ):
    The first few show the < followed by at least 4 characters ( not all characters ) problem, and work arounds
    http://www.excelforum.com/developmen...ml#post4295092
    http://www.excelforum.com/the-water-...ml#post4283991
    http://www.excelforum.com/suggestion...ml#post4412541
    https://www.excelforum.com/the-water...ml#post4591609
    http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...41#post4412541
    http://www.excelforum.com/the-water-...ml#post4226385
    http://www.excelforum.com/suggestion...-a-thread.html
    http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...t=#post4520072
    http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...t=#post4502342
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