I help a small business with an application which is entirely run from google sheets and google forms. The issue is that from time to time the business owner will go into the sheet and delete rows of old data. I've noticed that as a result, some of the formulas will change the row which they are looking at. This is despite me using explicit cell references such as $A$1 for example.
So what I would like to do, is use somehow compare the cell which contains the formula, with a string of what the formula should be, then return a value if the formula matches. I had thought an =If function would solve this but so far I am not having any luck.
This is what I have used so far:
Lets say cell A1 contains the formula I want to check and the formula is (this works fine): =FILTER(Dashboard!A2:A, Dashboard!C2:C1 = TODAY())*
I am using =IF(A1="=FILTER(Dashboard!A2:A, Dashboard!C2:C*1 = TODAY())",True,False)
I am expecting the function to compare the value of A1 with my string and return the value True. If the formula does not match the string it should return the value False.
I currently am returning the value of False despite the formula and string being an exact match. I assume this is because my =If statement is looking at the value returned by the =Filter function rather than the formula itself.
Any help would be appreciated.
thanks
You could just use INDIRECT() in the place of explicit cell ($A$1) reference you mentioned and that should solve the problem of formulas going haywire due to rows deletion in Form Responses tab. Please do test it out.
INDIRECT("Sheet!"&A1)
INDIRECT("A1")
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I'm trying to sum a range of values, within a given time frame. The time frame could be x hours, or y days, etc. An example:
So for each row, I need to sum the last hours or days as specified in cells C2:E2, which are numeric (just added formatting to show the text). Note that the datetime values do not follow any interval pattern, but are always sequential.
Although I've tried searching SO, and via Google, I haven't been able to find a way to do this.
Any suggestions would be very welcome.
[Edit]
I've added to a link to an example sheet of what I'm trying to do... pls just ask if I can add any further info!
Test Sum By Time
try:
=SUMIFS(B3:B, A3:A, ">="&NOW()-1)
=SUMIFS(B3:B, A3:A, ">="&NOW()-7)
In Google sheets, use the =TODAY() code to for today's date and put this in another cell. You could always create a new sheet (which we will call sheet3) which you hide afterwards. Let's imagine you put this in cell A1.
You can use the =IMPORTRANGE("the google sheets website link", "Sheet Name!A3:A31" to insert the values. Let's imagine you import this into B3:B31. In C3, you put =IF(REGEXMATCH(B3, A1), 1, 0).
You continue this in each cell from B4:B31, each time changing "B3" to the current row number. Then we can use the =SUM(C3:C31) code to count how many meet this condition. Let's imagine you put this in A2.
Now back to the original sheet. Use `=IMPORTRANGE("the google sheets website link", "sheet3!A2" in the cell C3.
For the other 2, I don't know, sorry!
I'm trying to nest an IF function inside a vlookup to filter data based on a cell in another sheet.
The ideal functionality would be for the cell to return data if it meets a specific criteria otherwise leave it blank.
This is what I have so far:
=IFERROR(vlookup(E2,IF('internal_all[Paste Here]'!H3="Indexable",'internal_all[Paste Here]'!A:AB,""),28,0))
Currently, it doesn't work but instead I get an error "VLOOKUP equates to an out of bounds range".
Any help would be much appreciated.
Here's a copy of my gsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13mcOOHIP6-YQKOhE_LHnmu3-7bSNKzvCSTVZ5BnTxPA/edit#gid=0
Here's an example of the error I'm running into:
If I understand your question correctly...Then all you would need to change is where you put the if. Including it in the Vlookup will mess with the size of range ie. A:AB has a size of 28 but "" has a size of 0. I would also change your formula to an array so you don't have 6000+ formulas calculating. Finally, I would add an array_constrain to stop the array at the end of your dataset. Here is a working example:
=Array_Constrain(ArrayFormula(IF('internal_all [Paste Here]'!B2:B="Indexable",vlookup(E2:E,'internal_all [Paste Here]'!A2:AB,28,0),"")),CountIf(A2:A,"<>"),1)
I also included that formula in H2 of your "internal links point to canonicalised URLs" tab. Good luck!
Edit:
After looking at the setup again, this updated formula should work.
=Array_Constrain(ArrayFormula(if(VLOOKUP(E2:E,'internal_all [Paste Here]'!A:B,2)="Indexable",vlookup(E2:E,'internal_all [Paste Here]'!A2:AB,28,0),)),CountIf(A2:A,"<>"),1)
Also, here is an updated Indexability formula for column G
=Array_Constrain(ArrayFormula(IFERROR(vlookup(G2:G,'internal_all [Paste Here]'!A:B,2,0))),CountIf(A2:A,"<>"),1)
MY GOAL:
parse a MM/DD date from the result of a vlookup so that it can be used in a project plan
BACKGROUND:
The vlookup result contains multiple values separated by a "•" (I don't need all of them)
The value I'm looking to parse is not always in the same location in the vlookup result (otherwise I could use the RIGHT formula)
There is a finite number of the values I'm looking to retrieve (and I know them already)
The value that I'm looking to retrieve contains some text with a date range; I only want the first four values in the date range (MM/DD)
I'd like to achieve all this with a single formula with the result in a single cell
CURRENT FORMULA
The formula that I've been working on that is not working is:
=ARRAYFORMULA(if(iserror(search(Iterations!D2:D7,(VLOOKUP(A2,'Results {2596503}'!$C$2:$L$183,3)))),,))
I've set up a sheet called "Erik Help" with the following formulas in B2 ad C2:
=ArrayFormula(IF(A2:A="","",MID(VLOOKUP(A2:A,data!A2:B,2,FALSE),FIND(REGEXEXTRACT(VLOOKUP(A2:A,data!A2:B,2,FALSE),"[0-9]-[0-9]"),VLOOKUP(A2:A,data!A2:B,2,FALSE))-4,5)))
and
=ArrayFormula(IF(A2:A="","",MID(VLOOKUP(A2:A,data!A2:B,2,FALSE),FIND(REGEXEXTRACT(VLOOKUP(A2:A,data!A2:B,2,FALSE),"[0-9]-[0-9]"),VLOOKUP(A2:A,data!A2:B,2,FALSE))+2,5)))
respectively.
They may be longer than actually needed, but you did not share realistic results in Column B or list which symbols may appear in Column B other than in the date; so I tried to account for either a hyphen or a forward slash possibly appearing in Column B in places other than within the date span.
Your analytics sheet also shows a formula that is sorting the results from data!A:A. So even though in your example the original data order happens to be the same as in analytics!A:A, that is not a given (again, based on your formula). Therefore, the VLOOKUP is also necessary.
You did not indicate whether you need to further use these returned date-snippets in calculations, or whether you just need to view them. So the results generated in "Erik Help" are text.
If you want usable numbers/dates, you add further issues that would need to be controlled for in the formula, because you'll only be extracting month and day, not year. That's fine right now. But what about when the date range to be extracted is "12/28-01/13"? If you simply make these values/dates, they will both be assigned to the current year. So the end date here will wind up being earlier than the start date.
Because of this, I've added a second sheet, "Erik Help 2," which contains extended formulas to account for these cases while still returning the date format you want as actual dates which can be used in calculations.
EDIT
(following your note on the sheet: "I would like to remove col b altogether and nest in the formulas in col c and d")
You can adjust the range B2:B by replacing it with your already existing formula in B2.
The new adjusted formula will become
=ArrayFormula(IFNA(SPLIT(REGEXEXTRACT(VLOOKUP(ARRAYFORMULA(sort(unique(data!A2:A))),data!$A$1:$C,2),"\d+\/\d+-\d+\/\d+"),"-")))
Original answer
You can use the following formula:
=ArrayFormula(IFNA(SPLIT(REGEXEXTRACT(B2:B,"\d{2}\/\d{2}-\d{2}\/\d{2}"),"-")))
Make sure you format the results as Date.
(Please adjust ranges to your needs)
Functions used:
ArrayFormula
IFNA
SPLIT
REGEXEXTRACT
try:
=ARRAYFORMULA(IF(A2:A="",,IFNA(TEXT(SPLIT(REGEXEXTRACT(
VLOOKUP(data!A2:A, data!A:C, 2), "\d+/\d+-\d+/\d+"), "-"), "mm/dd"))))
I'm working on a Google Sheet Project that will move data from one page to another. I need the formula to search a range ( 'Booth Placement'!O2:O1000=133), if a cell is equal to the set value it will then write the data from the same row 'Booth Placement'!A2:A1000.
I know the IF can only work for one column and not a range spanning multiple columns. What should I switch the formula below?
=IF('Booth Placement'!O2:O1000=133,'Booth Placement'!A2:A1000,"")
I am trying to keep this formula as simple as possible since I will have to change the value it is searching for on each cell on the second page. I've googled this for two days and I'm pretty sure I'm just missing the obvious. Any/All Help is appreciated.
try:
=FILTER('Booth Placement'!A2:A1000; 'Booth Placement'!O2:O1000=133)
or:
=ARRAYFORMULA(IF('Booth Placement'!O2:O1000=133; 'Booth Placement'!A2:A1000; ))
I have an IF statement that says if AG, AL, AJ all have Yes in the cell then I want it to go to a lookup table to retrieve a result. I then want it to take that result and perform a calculation but I don't know how to write it.
If one of the three cells has a no in it, then I just want it to return the value in cell AK
Here is an example:
IF(AG="Yes", AI="Yes", AJ="Yes"), VLOOKUP(Payout Table!A:B,201, 2,True), (O7*H17*AK) False=AK
This is my first time trying to do this so if you can recommend a link I can go to too better understand the correct formula that would be great.
What you want here is the AND function. AND returns TRUE if all of its own arguments are TRUE. ie:
=IF(AND(AG1="Yes", AI1="Yes", AJ1="Yes"), VLOOKUP(Payout Table!A:B,201, 2,True)*(O7*H17*AK), AK1)
Note also that I have fixed your formula for making the VLOOKUP amount multiply against your other cells, and also that I have added row references to what you had there ("AG" is not a valid cell reference; replace "AG1" with the appropriate row number you want to check against).
You need to use AND as well as change the order of your VLOOKUP like below:
=IF(AND(AG="Yes",AI="Yes",AJ="Yes"),VLOOKUP(201,Payout Table!A:B, 2,True)*(O7*H17*AK), AK1)