I have a sheet with a list of company names in column A - some of these company names are present within sheets of different users, who have a tickbox within a column beside these companies.
I want to have a column in my sheet which would tell me whether this company is ticked within one of the user's sheets and if so, put the user's name in the cell next to it. If not, it can remain blank. The likelihood at this time that the tickbox is TRUE for the same company in two different sheets is negligible.
In the sample sheet below, I've used the following formula in cell B2:
=ifs(vlookup(A2,Sheet2!$A$2:$B$11,2,false)=TRUE,"Sam",vlookup(A2,Sheet3!$A$2:$B$11,2,false)=TRUE,"Nick",vlookup(A2,Sheet4!$A$2:$B$11,2,false)=TRUE,"Mike")
It works for the first two conditions, but then it cannot seem to work with the third logical pair. Note that the sample sheet below uses the vlookup across tabs, the actual sheet will be using importrange, but I don't think it should make a difference.
What could be wrong?
Sample sheet here
A More General Problem
To make this more general so others find it useful (which is the whole point of StackOverflow), the general problem can be rephrased as
"How do I search for a value in lists in multiple sheets, and return a
result if there is at least one match?"
Generally, when using VLOOKUP(), QUERY(), or other matching functions, you have to account for any errors through non-matches. Those "move" outwards into the outer functions and can eventually be the reported result, unless explicitly handled. Sometimes, this is less obvious when you sometimes get answers but that's because the outer functions have ignored or not evaluated the matching function.
Therefore, always consider what happens if the matching function returns a N/A and explicitly handle it.
Your Example
In your case, IFS() is simply raising an error whenever VLOOKUP() does not match. However, since IFS() returns the first condition that matches, from left to right in the formula, it doesn't always get around to evaluating one of the non-matching VLOOKUP()s which is why you see it works sometimes.
So, you should explicitly handle the errors with e.g. IFERROR()
My approach was to avoid lookup functions, and just filter the list by those that had filled checkboxes, and then count the occurrence of interest ("Company 1", "Company 2", ...) using COUNTIF(). If the counted total is 1, we have a match, so grab that entry as an element in an array. Otherwise, leave an empty value.
At this point, you could drop the empty elements, and take the first non-empty element (or return a blank), but I opted to list out all of the names.
To get rid of the blanks, I use QUERY() and then JOIN() to make a list of each name. In the case, where nothing matched, and my array was empty, I simply wrap everything in one IFERROR().
=IFERROR(JOIN(", ",QUERY(TRANSPOSE({IF(COUNTIF(FILTER(Sam!A:A,Sam!B:B=TRUE),A2)=1,"Sam",""),IF(COUNTIF(FILTER(Nick!A:A,Nick!B:B=TRUE),A2)=1,"Nick",""),IF(COUNTIF(FILTER(Mike!A:A,Mike!B:B=TRUE),A2)=1,"Mike","")}),"SELECT Col1 WHERE Col1 IS NOT NULL",0)),"")
I found it convenient for your example to rename "Sheet2" as "Sam", "Sheet3" as "Nick", "Sheet4" as "Mike", which is what I think was your original meaning.
The formula can be easily modified to show just the first matching result.
use:
=ARRAYFORMULA(IFNA(VLOOKUP(A2:A, QUERY({
QUERY(Sheet2!A2:B, "select A,B,'Sam'");
QUERY(Sheet3!A2:B, "select A,B,'Nick'");
QUERY(Sheet4!A2:B, "select A,B,'Mike'")},
"where Col2=TRUE"), 3, )))
Related
I want to check where - in a specified range - does a value exist in a Google Sheet. If I already know the column, I would use the "Match()" function to get the row number. But let's say if I still want to get a number for the column, and use the Match() function again, I wasn't able to.
In the match function, I wanted to use a dynamic value like "Sheet1!E3" to specify the row I'm searching for, but it didn't work.
Here is the sheet to illustrate the idea.
Why is that? In a case like this, if I want to use the dynamic value twice - Sheet1!E3:Sheet1!E3, what should I do instead?
Thanks!
See the test sheet linked
delete E4. use in E3:
=INDEX(FLATTEN(SPLIT(TEXTJOIN(, 1, IF(E2=A2:B17, ROW(A2:B17)&""&COLUMN(A2:B17), )), "")))
I am creating an excel sheet with following Data Validation drop down list.
NA
Done
(add some formula here)
Basically, i will be able to select either plain text "NA"/ "Done" from the dropdown list. But sometimes, I want the user to be able to calculate some values based on the cell respective to the row selected so, I want to have one formula as a choice inside the data validation dropdown list. Is this possible?
Data Validation List Source
When I click on Formulae option, it should execute the formula with respect to the cells in that Row
But currently, the formula that i put in doesn't execute, instead it will just show the whole formula in the cell when activated.
1)How can i make it so that when i select the formula from data validation list, it will execute it instead of filling up the cell with it?
2)How do i set the formula so that it will be using the cell from the current Row? (for example, if i am using the data validation List in N60, the formula should adapt itself to use the cell (let's say A60?).
I may not be able to help with the second part, but I was seeking an answer to the first and discovered a solution/workaround using Name Manager.
First, in Formula > Name Manager, create a new reference (the "refers to" will contain whatever formula you are wishing to ultimately display in the validation list. For this example, we use the formula reference "=IF($H54=..." and Name it "UniqueName"
Now, we go into Data Validation, Select List, and input the three items we want displayed in the list, with an equals sign preceding our newly named reference: ie. "NA,Done,=UniqueName"
Note: You can't start with the =UniqueName or validation will try to read it all as a formula and fail.
This method will allow the user to display "NA", "Done", or "=UniqueName" in the cell; if "=UniqueName" is selected, the cell itself will interpret this as a formula and execute it accordingly, displaying the results of "=IF($H54=...", or whateverelse you have designated to use as a named formula.
If it's too late for yours, I hope this helps someone else who may face a similar problem.
While I think I know what you're trying to say. Why don't you just use an IF formula to evaluate everything instead of selecting a drop down for every row manually. You already had it partially solved using IF. Just need to add the criteria for a "Done" and an "NA"
=if(A1="date","Done",if(A1<"date","NA",if(something else until you have all your catergories))
Just going to piggyback off of Mark's response.
If you really needed your named formula to be the first selection in the list, you can setup your list with a leading comma like so:
,=UniqueName,NA,Done
That worked out for my use, and there was no null item listed in the Data Validation drop down. Hope that helps!
Is there any way to group a table by a text field, having in count that this text field is not always exactly the same?
Example:
select city_hotel, count(city_hotel)
from hotels, temp_grid
where st_intersects(hotels.geom, temp_grid.geom)
and potential=1
and part=4
group by city_hotel
order by (city_hotel) desc
The output I get is the expected, for example, City name and count:
"Vassiliki ";1
"Vassiliki";1
"Vassilias, Skiathos";1
"Vassilias";5
"Vasilikí";25
"Vasiliki";23
"Vasilias";1
But I'd want to group more this field, and get only one "Vasiliki" (or an array with all, this is not a problem) and a count of all the cells containing something similar between them.
I do not know if could this be possible. Maybe some function to text analysis or something similar?
SELECT COUNT(*), `etc` FROM table GROUP BY textfield LIKE '%sili%';
// The '%' is a SQL wildcard, which matches as many of any character as required.
You could do something like the above, choosing a word for the 'like' that best fits the spellings that your users have used.
Something that can help with that would be to do a
SELECT COUNT(*), textfield FROM table GROUP BY textfield ORDER BY textfield;
And selecting the most 'average' spelling for your words.
Otherwise you're starting to get into a bit of language processing, and for that you will want to write some code outside of SQL.
This would be something like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damerau%E2%80%93Levenshtein_distance
To find word's that are the same within an arbitrary margin of error.
There is a MySQL implementation here that you should be able to transpose as needed
https://stackoverflow.com/a/6392380/1287480
(credit https://stackoverflow.com/a/3515291/1287480)
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(Personal thoughts on the topic)
You Really Really want to think about limiting the input from users that can give you this issue in the first place. It's far far better to give the users a list of places to select from, than it is to push potentially 'dirty' information into your database. That eventually always winds up with you trying to clean the information at a later time. A problem that has kept many people employed for many years.
I worked on some projects, but cannot figure out why this kind of vlookup function does not work. I even tried a very simple example, and it didn't work.
From https://support.office.com/en-us/article/VLOOKUP-function-0bbc8083-26fe-4963-8ab8-93a18ad188a1 "The value you want to look up must be in the first column of the range of cells you specify in table-array".
Your example is trying to search the second column. Swap column 1 and 2 and the lookup should work.
Assume that I have a list of employee names from a database (thousands, potentially tens-of-thousands in the near future). To make the problem simpler assume that each firstname/lastname combination is unique (a big if, but a tangent).
I also have a RSS stream of news content that pertains to the business (again, could be in the hundreds of items per day).
What I would like to do is detect if an employees name appears in the several paragraph news item and, if so, 'tag' the item with the person its talking about.
There may be more than one employee named in a single news item so breaking the loop after the first positive match isn't a possibility.
I can certainly brute force things: for every news item, loop over each and every employee name and if a regex expression returns a match, make note of it.
Is there a simpler way in ColdFusion or should I just get on with my nested loops?
Just throwing this out there as something you could do...
It sounds like you'll almost unanimously have significantly more employee names than words per post. Here's how I might handle it:
Have an always-running CF app that will pull in the feeds and onAppStart
Grab all employees from your db
Create an app-scoped look up struct with first names as keys and a struct of last names as values ( you could also add middle names sibling to last names with a 3rd tier if desired ).
So one key in the look up might be "Vanessa" with a struct with 2 keys ( "Johnson" and "Forta" ) as its value.
Then, each article you parse, just listToArray with a space as a delimiter and loop through the array doing a simple structKeyExists with each token. For matches, check the next item in the array as a last name.
I'd guess this would be much more performant processingwise than doing however many searches and also take almost no time to code and you can feed in any future sources extremely simply ( your checker takes one argument, any text on Earth ).
Interested to see what route you go and whether your experiments expose anything new about performance in CF.
Matthew, you have a tall order there, and there are really multiple parts to the challenge/solution. But just in terms of comparing a list of values to a given set of text to see if one of them occur in there, you'll find that there's no one could CF function. BEcause of that, I created a new one, findList, available at cflib:
http://cflib.org/index.cfm?event=page.udfbyid&udfid=1908
It's not perfect, nor as optimal as it could be, but it may be a useful first step or you, or give you some ideas. That said, it suited my need (determine if a given blog comment had reference to any of the blacklisted words). I show it comparing a list of URLs, but it could be any words at all. Hope that's a little helpful.
Another option worth exploring is leveraging the Solr engine that ships with CF now. It will do the string search heavy lifting for you and you can probably focus on dynamically keeping your collections up to date and optimized as new feed items come in.
Good luck!