I want to fill a cell rang with values from a macro.
Since there are formulas depending on the inserted values the macro runs very long. Is there a way to dis-/enable table recalculation programatically ?. I want to disable table recalculation before filling the cell range and enable it after filling is done.
ThisComponent.EnableAutomaticCalculation(False)
. . .
ThisComponent.CalculateAll
ThisComponent.EnableAutomaticCalculation(True)
I'm assuming that the call to "CalculateAll" is not required as re-enabling automatic calculation with dirty cells will force a recalculation, but I'm paranoid :-)
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I'm making a time-spending tracker based on the work I do every hour of the day.
Now, suppose I have 28 types of work listed in my tracker (which I also have to increase from time to time), and I have about 8 significance values that I have decided to relate to these 28 types of work, predefined.
I want that, as soon as I enter a type of work in cell 1 - I want the adjacent cell 2 to get automatically populated with a significance value (from a range of 8 values) that is pre-definitely set by me.
Every time I input a new or old occurrence of a type of work, the adjacent cell should automatically get matched with its relevant significance value & automatically get populated in real-time.
I know how to do it using IF, IFS, and IF_OR conditions, but I feel that based on the ever-expanding types of work & significance values, the above formulas will be very big, complicated, and repetitive in the future. I feel there's a more efficient way to achieve it. Also, I don't want it to be selected from a drop-down list.
Guys, please help me out with the most efficient way to handle this. TUIA :)
Also, I've added a snapshot and a sample sheet describing the problem.
Sample sheet
XLOOKUP() may work. Try-
=XLOOKUP(D2,A2:A,B2:B)
Or FILTER() function like-
=FILTER(B2:B,A2:A=D2)
You can use this formula for a whole column:
=INDEX(IFERROR(VLOOKUP(C14:C,A2:B9,2,0)))
Adapt the ranges to your actual tables in order to include in the second argument all the potential values and their significances
This is the formula, that worked for me (for anybody's reference):
I created another reference sheet, stating the types of work & their significance. From that sheet, I'm using either vlookup, filter, xlookup.Using gforms for inputting my data.
=ARRAYFORMULA(IFS(ROW(D:D)=1,"Significance",A:A="","",TRUE,VLOOKUP(D:D,Reference!$A:$B,2,0)))
Suppose I am using some twoway graph command in Stata. Without any action on my part Stata will choose some reasonable values for the ranges of both y and x axes, based both upon the minimum and maximum y and x values in my data, but also upon some algorithm that decides when it would be prettier for the range to extend instead to a number like '0' instead of '0.0139'. Wonderful! Great.
Now suppose that after (or while) I draw my graph, I want to slap some very important text onto it, and I want to be choosy about precisely where the text appears. Having the minimum and maximum values of the displayed axes would be useful: how can I get these min and max numbers? (Either before or while calling the graph command.)
NB: I am not asking how to set the y or x axis ranges.
Since this issue has been a bit of a headache for me for quite some time and I believe there is no good solution out there yet I wanted to write up two ways in which I was able to solve a similar problem to the one described in the post. Specifically, I was able to solve the issue of gray shading for part of the graph using these.
Define a global macro in the code generating the axis labels This is the less elegant way to do it but it works well. Locate the tickset_g.class file in your ado path. The graph twoway command uses this to draw the axes of any graph. There, I defined a global macro in the draw program that takes the value of the omin and omax locals after they have been set to the minimum between the axis range and data range (the command that does this is local omin = min(.scale.min,omin) and analogously for the max), since the latter sometimes exceeds the former. You could also define the global further up in that code block to only get the axis extent. You can then access the axis range using the globals after the graph command (and use something like addplot to add to the previously drawn graph). Two caveats for this approach: using global macros is, as far as I understand, bad practice and can be dangerous. I used names I was sure wouldn't be included in any program with the prefix userwritten. Also, you may not have administrator privileges that allow you to alter this file based on your organization's decisions. However, it is the simpler way. If you prefer a more elegant approach along the lines of what Nick Cox suggested, then you can:
Use the undocumented gdi natscale command to define your own axis labels The gdi commands are the internal commands that are used to generate what you see as graph output (cf. https://www.stata.com/meeting/dcconf09/dc09_radyakin.pdf). The tickset_g.class uses the gdi natscale command to generate the nice numbers of the axes. Basic documentation is available with help _natscale, basically you enter the minimum and maximum, e.g. from a summarize return, and a suggested number of steps and the command returns a min, max, and delta to be used in the x|ylabel option (several possible ways, all rather straightforward once you have those numbers so I won't spell them out for brevity). You'd have to adjust this approach in case you use some scale transformation.
Hope this helps!
I like Nick's suggestion, but if you're really determined, it seems that you can find these values by inspecting the output after you set trace on. Here's some inefficient code that seems to do exactly what you want. Three notes:
when I import the log file I get this message:
Note: Unmatched quote while processing row XXXX; this can be due to a formatting problem in the file or because a quoted data element spans multiple lines. You should carefully inspect your data after importing. Consider using option bindquote(strict) if quoted data spans multiple lines or option bindquote(nobind) if quotes are not used for binding data.
Sometimes the data fall outside of the min and max range values that are chosen for the graph's axis labels (but you can easily test for this).
The log linesize is actually important to my code below because the key values must fall on the same line as the strings that I use to identify the helpful rows.
* start a log (critical step for my solution)
cap log close _all
set linesize 255
log using "log", replace text
* make up some data:
clear
set obs 3
gen xvar = rnormal(0,10)
gen yvar = rnormal(0,.01)
* turn trace on, run the -twoway- call, and then turn trace off
set trace on
twoway scatter yvar xvar
set trace off
cap log close _all
* now read the log file in and find the desired info
import delimited "log.log", clear
egen my_string = concat(v*)
keep if regexm(my_string,"forvalues yf") | regexm(my_string,"forvalues xf")
drop if regexm(my_string,"delta")
split my_string, parse("=") gen(new)
gen axis = "vertical" if regexm(my_string,"yf")
replace axis = "horizontal" if regexm(my_string,"xf")
keep axis new*
duplicates drop
loc my_regex = "(.*[0-9]+)\((.*[0-9]+)\)(.*[0-9]+)"
gen min = regexs(1) if regexm(new3,"`my_regex'")
gen delta = regexs(2) if regexm(new3,"`my_regex'")
gen max_temp= regexs(3) if regexm(new3,"`my_regex'")
destring min max delta , replace
gen max = min + delta* int((max_temp-min)/delta)
*here is the info you want:
list axis min delta max
So I have searched through several different questions related to this. None of them seem to be asking exactly what I'm looking for and none of the solutions I've found have worked for me thus far.
I have several columns of data (Player names) where each column's values are generated from a formula in the 2nd row of that column. The 1st row is a header (Game name). This whole range is the collection of which players are willing to play which games. These are columns D-J(ish, the list is dynamically generated with another formula, based on form responses)
I have another range of data where the 1st column is the Player and the 2nd is the player's PREFERRED game. This data is also generated with a formula based on form responses. These are columns A-B.
Here's what I'm trying to do
Using conditional formatting in columns D-J, I want to highlight the player's name if this game (in row 1 of this column) is their preferred game (range A2:B).
I've tried several different variations of VLOOKUPS, MATCHES, and FILTERS in the conditional formatting, but so far nothing has worked. The problem I run into every time is that I can't figure out how to reference the cell that the formatting is applying to, but still have it reference each individual cell over the whole range.
I know I could do this if I applied an individual conditional formatting to each individual cell. However that is a very time consuming and inelegant solution to this issue considering I'm expecting my data range to be much larger in the future. I need a conditional formatting formula that will work across the whole range or , at the very least, for an entire column.
This is a mock of what I'm trying to accomplish:
This is a link to a mock of my sheet so that you can clearly see the data layout and specific formulas I'm using:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1wy1T6dWJwNC_EfdCAbkuxtkJH7y4Cg3x4IyEk6R567M/edit?usp=sharing
use:
=REGEXMATCH(D3, TEXTJOIN("|", 1, FILTER($A$3:$A, $B$3:$B=D$2)))
In OpenOffice.org Calc, I would like to apply a formula to a column that references a cell from the same row but in a different column. I.e., =C1*48 in cell D1, but I want all cells in column D to do this without having to copy the formula to each one manually. Or another way of saying it, for each cell in C that has a number, I want to fill in the corresponding row-cell in D with a formula value based on that number. So far, all I can see from the documentation is that I'd have to copy/adjust the formula for every new row in the spreadsheet. And since I have 4 such columns that need calculation, this will get to be tiresome. I have little experience with spreadsheets at all, so I'm hoping that my problem is actually very simple, and that I just am looking at the wrong parts of the documentation.
I don't have OpenOffice in front of me, but it tries really hard to be Excel like in many ways, so usually assumptions about Calc based on Excel are fairly close to reality.
In Excel, a formula in cell D1, that points to a cell in C1, is treated as a relative reference - that is, one column back from where I am now. So when that formula is filled into other cells (either by Fill Down, or dragging the little handle in the corner of the cell outline, or by copy-pasting the formula into a range of selected cells) the new formulas are similarly treated, by default, as referring to the cell that is one column back from them, in the same row.
To force a formula to use an absolute reference, one specifies the cell address with a dollar sign - $C$1 will always point to (use) the contents of cell C1, regardless of where the formula ends up. ($C1 and C$1 are alternates that allow one parameter of the address to change in the usual relative sense while fixing the other half in place... this probably isn't important to you yet).
In other words, I'd expect that you can type the formulas in the first row of your OpenOffice Calc sheet and copy them down to the rest of the row, and things will just work.
If you want to extend your range down you can do this by calculating the first 2 cells with your formula and then highlighting them. You now grab the little square on the bottom right of the highlighted area and drag that down, across or both.
If you have a specific cell (e.g. D2) which you wish to have remain in all the cells you extend your range to, then in your 2 initial cell calculations use the following:
Extending Down
=G2*D$2
=G3*D$2
Extending Across
=G2*$D2
=H2*$D2
Extending Down and Across
Use $D$2
From your question it seems that you are trying to apply the same formula on whole row (or column) of cells and show the result on another row (or column).
The best way to do this is to use something called array formulas or array functions (in libre office). This link has very good explanation - https://help.libreoffice.org/Calc/Array_Functions
The way you would implement this in your case is
Type this formula in cell D1
=C1:C30 *48
and press ctrl + shift + enter
The formula now looks like this with the flower braces {..}
={C1:C30 *48}
and the formula gets applied all the way from D1 to D30.
You can even extrapolate the same concept to a whole matrix (for example: A1:C10)
(The way to tell excel/open office/ libre office that you wrote an array formula is to press ctrl + shift + enter. Never press enter as that will break the array function and convert it to a regular function)
I need to define a calculated member in MDX (this is SAS OLAP, but I'd appreciate answers from people who work with different OLAP implementations anyway).
The new measure's value should be calculated from an existing measure by applying an additional filter condition. I suppose it will be clearer with an example:
Existing measure: "Total traffic"
Existing dimension: "Direction" ("In" or "Out")
I need to create a calculated member "Incoming traffic", which equals "Total traffic" with an additional filter (Direction = "In")
The problem is that I don't know MDX and I'm on a very tight schedule (so sorry for a newbie question). The best I could come up with is:
([Measures].[Total traffic], [Direction].[(All)].[In])
Which almost works, except for cells with specific direction:
So it looks like the "intrinsic" filter on Direction is overridden with my own filter). I need an intersection of the "intrinsic" filter and my own. My gut feeling was that it has to do with Intersecting [Direction].[(All)].[In] with the intrinsic coords of the cell being evaluated, but it's hard to know what I need without first reading up on the subject :)
[update] I ended up with
IIF([Direction].currentMember = [Direction].[(All)].[Out],
0,
([Measures].[Total traffic], [Direction].[(All)].[In])
)
..but at least in SAS OLAP this causes extra queries to be performed (to calculate the value for [in]) to the underlying data set, so I didn't use it in the end.
To begin with, you can define a new calculated measure in your MDX, and tell it to use the value of another measure, but with a filter applied:
WITH MEMBER [Measures].[Incoming Traffic] AS
'([Measures].[Total traffic], [Direction].[(All)].[In])'
Whenever you show the new measure on a report, it will behave as if it has a filter of 'Direction > In' on it, regardless of whether the Direction dimension is used at all.
But in your case, you WANT the Direction dimension to take precendence when used....so things get a little messy. You will have to detect if this dimension is in use, and act accordingly:
WITH MEMBER [Measures].[Incoming Traffic] AS
'IIF([Direction].currentMember = [Direction].[(All)].[Out],
([Measures].[Total traffic]),
([Measures].[Total traffic], [Directon].[(All)].[In])
)'
To see if the Dimension is in use, we check if the current cell is using OUT. If so we can return Total Traffic as it is. If not, we can tell it to use IN in our tuple.
I think you should put a column in your Total Traffic fact table for IN/OUT indication & create a Dim table for the IN & Out values. You can then analyse your data based on IN & Out.