I believe what I am trying to do should be simple in Google Sheets formulae, but any solution based on an Excel formula should be easily transferable.
Because additional characters will be added periodically, I have a named range: "Heroes".
Heroes
Bilbo
Gandalf
Saruman
Wormtongue
Tom Bombadil
For each hero, I have a worksheet in one overall workbook. On these worksheets, there are columns for Date, Time, Quest, and Count. Several times per day, a hero will venture out on a quest of a certain type, returning with a certain count as a prize. Each venture has its own row distinguishable by date and time. Eg-:
Date
Time
Quest
Count
12/4
3:00P
Ring
9
12/5
8:00A
Mordor
6
12/5
4:15P
Sting
3
Meanwhile, I have a summary worksheet, on which I am manually entering (for now... bonus points to help create an =arrayformula() or equivalent to grab all unique date/time combinations from each character's worksheet) the date and time at which one or a batch of heroes are sent to quest. I am trying to figure out the formula template that will sum the counts for each quest type for each hero at the specific date and time signified by its corresponding row (starting at 12/4, 3:00P, Ring, the count should be 9, for example, which is Bilbo's prize for questing at that time; of course, other heroes are also sent out at 3:00P, resulting in prizes for the other quests, and multiple heroes may venture on the same type of quest at any given time):
Date
Time
Ring
Sting
Mordor
Moria
12/4
3:00P
9
3
4
1
12/4
9:30P
1
0
8
0
12/5
8:00A
5
3
6
9
12/5
12:10A
3
1
3
8
12/5
4:15P
4
5
2
5
Since not every date and time in the summary sheet will exist on each hero's worksheet, I seem unable to use "SUMIFS", which functions in such a way that each sum_range and criteria_range are added on only across the same row when conditions are met. I think there is a SUMPRODUCT(), or INDEX(MATCH()) way to do this, but when including the named range to read across multiple worksheets, only the first hero's numbers were added in my tinkering with this.
I'm dancing around the solution here. Anyone care to tango ? Many thanks !
Sample Workbook for support: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/142IE9r2ip6YHsGdMr-zt_IHd6W7glqUId_UiGQnCUZs/edit?usp=sharing
it would be done like this:
=QUERY({Bilbo!A:D; Gandalf!A:D; Saruman!A:D; Wormtongue!A:D; 'Tom Bombadil'!A:D},
"select Col1,Col2,sum(Col4) where Col1 is not null group by Col1,Col2 pivot Col3", 1)
if you want a specific order of places you can do:
=TRANSPOSE(SORT(TRANSPOSE(QUERY(
{Bilbo!A:D; Gandalf!A:D; Saruman!A:D; Wormtongue!A:D; 'Tom Bombadil'!A:D},
"select Col1,Col2,sum(Col4) where Col1 is not null
group by Col1,Col2 pivot Col3", 1)),
MATCH(FLATTEN(QUERY(QUERY(
{Bilbo!A:D; Gandalf!A:D; Saruman!A:D; Wormtongue!A:D; 'Tom Bombadil'!A:D},
"select Col1,Col2,sum(Col4) where Col1 is not null
group by Col1,Col2 pivot Col3", 1), "limit 0", 1)),
{"Date"; "Time"; "Ring"; "Sting"; "Mordor"; "Moria"}, ), 1))
or manually like this:
=QUERY(QUERY({Bilbo!A:D; Gandalf!A:D; Saruman!A:D; Wormtongue!A:D; 'Tom Bombadil'!A:D},
"select Col1,Col2,sum(Col4) where Col1 is not null group by Col1,Col2 pivot Col3", 1),
"select Col1,Col2,Col5,Col6,Col3,Col4")
if you thinking to outsmart it with the list of Heroes... don't. referring a range from other sheets requires the usage of INDIRECT. and surprise surprise, INDIRECT is not supported under ARRAYFORMULA so you cant build an array. at this point, you either re-think your life choices or you use a script where there is support for such indirected arrays. the best you can do without script is to hardcode it like:
=QUERY({
INDIRECT(Main!A2&"!A:D");
INDIRECT(Main!A3&"!A:D");
INDIRECT(Main!A4&"!A:D");
INDIRECT(Main!A5&"!A:D");
INDIRECT(Main!A7&"!A:D")},
"select Col1,Col2,sum(Col4) where Col1 is not null
group by Col1,Col2 pivot Col3", 1)
and ofc this will only work if sheet exists on the list and list does not contain empty cells otherwise you will get ARRAY error like this because Main!A6 sheet does not exist:
so to counter it we can do some slide of hand tricks with IFERROR which will allow us to not get the error and still use non-existent sheets and even empty cells so we can pre-program it for future additions like this:
=QUERY({
IFERROR(INDIRECT(IF(Main!A2="", 0, Main!A2)&"!A:D"), {"","","",""});
IFERROR(INDIRECT(IF(Main!A3="", 0, Main!A3)&"!A:D"), {"","","",""});
IFERROR(INDIRECT(IF(Main!A4="", 0, Main!A4)&"!A:D"), {"","","",""});
IFERROR(INDIRECT(IF(Main!A5="", 0, Main!A5)&"!A:D"), {"","","",""});
IFERROR(INDIRECT(IF(Main!A6="", 0, Main!A6)&"!A:D"), {"","","",""});
IFERROR(INDIRECT(IF(Main!A7="", 0, Main!A7)&"!A:D"), {"","","",""});
IFERROR(INDIRECT(IF(Main!A8="", 0, Main!A8)&"!A:D"), {"","","",""});
IFERROR(INDIRECT(IF(Main!A9="", 0, Main!A9)&"!A:D"), {"","","",""});
IFERROR(INDIRECT(IF(Main!A10="", 0, Main!A10)&"!A:D"),{"","","",""});
IFERROR(INDIRECT(IF(Main!A11="", 0, Main!A11)&"!A:D"),{"","","",""})},
"select Col1,Col2,sum(Col4) where Col1 is not null
group by Col1,Col2 pivot Col3", 1)
note: 4 columns in range A:D = 4 empty cells {"","","",""}
I have some data. One of the columns (Column D) has data such as "yes", "no", 'Credit", "n/a", "half".
At the top of that column, I have created a function which allows me to get percentage of "yes" responses, but not as a percentage of all responses, but just as a percentage of the responses that are "Yes", "No" and "Half"
Formula below
=iferror((COUNTIF(C3:C, "yes") / (COUNTIF(C3:C, "no") + COUNTIF(C3:C, "half") + COUNTIF(C3:C, "yes"))))
Below that, starting at row 3, is the data.
What I want to do is put data this into a pivot table. One of my other Columns is date, and I want to be able to group the data by month (actually by week, but I have already worked that out).
I am looking for my grand total value to be summarised using the formula above, which doesn't exist as one of the standard summary options.
I am interested to hear your ideas on the best way to solve this.
Thanks
Edit: here is a link to a sheet with the basics of what I am trying to do. Thanks for your help with this.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ew4pPv4qtJCZJCaUgg_I7VdL5F00t-PFhIlg2bs8sh0/edit?usp=sharing
One "extended" solution is
get all yes per month in L3
=query({arrayformula(EOMONTH(B$3:B,0)),C3:C},"select Col1, count(Col2) where Col2='yes' group by Col1 label count(Col2) 'Exercice-yes' ")
get all yen/no/half per month in N3
=query({arrayformula(EOMONTH(B$3:B,0)),C3:C},"select Col1, count(Col2) where Col2='yes' or Col2='no' or Col2='half' group by Col1 label count(Col2) 'Exercice-yes|no|half' ")
get all unique monthes in G3
=arrayformula(unique(if(B3:B="","",eomonth(B3:B,0))))
and finally find the %
=arrayformula(iferror(VLOOKUP(G3:G,L:M,2,0)/VLOOKUP(G3:G,N:O,2,0)))
I have a Google Sheet (Test Sheet 2) with two sheets in it, Sheet 1 and Sheet 2. Sheet 2 is where all of the data is and I need to get the sums of the counts of that column based on three criteria into sheet 1 column C. The name, week, year and count need to match up. I used the formula
=arrayformula(iferror(vlookup(A2:A&2020&B2:B, {Sheet2!A2:A&Sheet2!B2:B&Sheet2!C2:C, Sheet2!D2:D}, 2, FALSE)))
but that only works for unique rows. In the example sheet I am providing, the formula works well for Bill, Lisa, Katie and Jon because they all have one value for 'count' from Sheet2 when the parameters of name, week and year match up. But Mike has two rows matching the criteria. This formula returns the first match which is 3. The other value is 4 so I would like the count in Sheet1 to show 7 instead of 3. I need it to add them up.
I also tried to use sumifs but the columns are two different sizes so that didn't work.
Any idea? I did try to combine sumif with the above formula but that did not work either.
Link to Test Sheet
Solution with ARRAYFORMULA and SUMIF
If you need to use ARRAYFORMULA to improve the performances you can use this tweak of the SUMIF statement: basically you can concatenate the conditions to make them create a single AND condition.
This would be a possible solution for the formula in your comment:
=ARRAYFORMULA(SUMIF(Sheet2!A2:A&Sheet2!B2:B,A2:A&2020,Sheet2!D2:D))
Solution with SUMIFS
If you are looking for a solution with the SUMIFS formula you can use this:
SUMIFS('sum_range', 'criteria_range', condition, ['criteria_range_2', condition_2])
In your case this will translate to:
=SUMIFS(Sheet2!D2:D, Sheet2!A2:A, A2, Sheet2!B2:B, 2020)
In this case the ranges dimensions won't affect the formula execution.
Just drag this formula for the Sheet1 table column and you will get the results. The drawback is that you cannot use ARRAYFORMULA with SUMIFS. Performance wise, if you have a lot of rows in the Sheet1 I suggest using the ARRAYFORMULA solution, since this will trigger a lot of formula calls instead of just one.
Try this query()
=query(Sheet2!A:D, "Select A, C, sum(D) where B = 2020 group by A, C label C 'Week', sum(D) 'Count'", 1)
UPDATED:
If you really need to use vlookup in arrayformula() you can always ise the query (that deals with the summing) as the lookup range. In the spreadsheet I used
=ArrayFormula(if(len(A2:A), iferror(vlookup(A2:A&year(D2:D)&E2:E, query({Sheet2!A:A&Sheet2!B:B&Sheet2!C:C, Sheet2!D:D}, "Select Col1, sum(Col2) where Col1 <>'' group by Col1", 1), 2, 0)),) )
and see if that helps?
This is the sample file
I have two data sets.
Cash balance recorded as a particular date
Cash added to the till
Problem
To be able to know the theoritical cash blance by adding new "Cash Additions" to the last "Recorded Balance" in chronological order.
The intent is to know theorical balance since the last recorded balance event.
I have tried to use Vlookup in Array Formulas for Dates
But got stuck with summing values from "Cash Additions" with an Array Formula
Any particular suggestions?
try:
=ARRAYFORMULA(IF(A2:A="",,B2:B+IFNA(VLOOKUP(A2:A,
QUERY({IFNA(VLOOKUP('Cash Added'!A2:A,
SORT('Recorded Balance'!A2:A), 1, 1)), 'Cash Added'!B2:B},
"select Col1,sum(Col2)
where Col2 is not null
group by Col1
label sum(Col2)''"), 2, 0))))
I'm looking for solution for my problem. I have a sheet to summarize lap times for some competition. We make 3 laps in each qualification. We are qualifying to finals by 2 best laps one after another. So we sum first and second lap or second and third lap and then choose the smallest one sum. I've managed to get array of pairs and filter out empty cells (run not finished). Number of pairs may vary form 1 to 20.
Now is my question. How to find the smallest sum of pairs from my array in one elegant formula?
Here is my sample sheet: example sheet
=QUERY(QUERY({A17:B17;B17:C17;D17:E17;E17:F17;G17:H17;H17:I17};
"select Col1+Col2
where Col1 is not NULL
and Col2 is not NULL");
"select min(Col1)
label min(Col1)''")
I know this isn't exactly your question and fair play if it gets marked down, but in your quest for an 'elegant formula', I was wondering if there was a more general way to get the pairs in the first place.
You can do it with by using two ranges offset by one cell together with the mod of the column number:
=ArrayFormula(query(
query({transpose({A17:H17;B17:I17;mod(column(A17:H17),3)})},"select Col1+Col2 where Col1 is not null and Col2 is not null and Col3>0")
,"select min(Col1) label min(Col1) ''"))