I am working with google sheet. I have two sheets named App Catgeory and Directory Category.
App category have two column:-
1. Category Name
2. Is Selectable
In Directory Category i have category selection dropdown which is created from Category Name column of App category sheet.All the values in Category Name column are available in dropdown.
Dropdown is created by this data validation formula:-
='App-Category'!$C$2:$C
But, I want such Category Name in dropdown which have Is Selectable column value Yes in App category.If Is Selectable column value is No then such category Names are not need to displayed in dropdown.
So, how can i achieve this.
Thanks in advance!!
I believe you cannot directly achieve what you are expecting. instead you can have a derived column using a query to get the dropdown values and then use it to populate the drop down.
= QUERY('App Catgeory'!A2:B21,"select A where (B = 'yes')")
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I'm new on google spreadsheets, and I'm having this little problem:
I want to create a project manager with an external spreadsheet just for customer-info. In my "main-hub" sheet, I have created a dropdown menu on B11 which copys the customer names from the extrenal sheet. That works fine.
Now the problem I am trying to solve: I want to keep the drop-down menu on B11, i dont want to add any new drop down menus. Whenever I select an item from the menu on B11, additional information about the customer should be inserted into different cells in different columns. Example:
| __________ B11 __________ | __________ J11 __________ | __________ K11 __________ |
Selected Name dynamicly inserted data 1 dynamicly inserted data 2
Please keep in mind, I really don't want to add any new drop down menu, I want to keep only this one for the names of the customers.
What you're looking for is "VLOOKUP". This is a Formula where you can define a specific range and select the part you want to display. I've edited your spreadsheet.
=IFERROR(VLOOKUP(A2;'Customers static'!$A$2:$C$5;2;FALSE);"")
IFERROR Value, [value if error]
VLOOKUP Search key, area, index, is sorted
Seeing that you have not solved your answer. I have created a new sheet in your spreadsheet showing you a possible answer.
Possible solution
Basically you can have a dynamically expandable sheet with the use of ARRAYFORMULA.
Which is kind of basically repeat this operation for the whole range. In this case you just would need to put one formula for each column:
=ARRAYFORMULA(IFERROR(VLOOKUP(A:A;'Customers static'!A2:D;2;FALSE)))
Look how instead of using a single value for VLOOKUP you are using the whole range and ARRAYFORMULA will handle that. Therefore you just need to write the formula at the top of each column, changing the index for every single column in the original data.
You can take a look in the Raserhin's help on the sheet you have provided.
I am using google sheets to do the following.
Sheet 1 : 1 column for each person who needs access to the file. Each column's cell has a dropdown menu so people can select what items they have.
Sheet 2 : A list of every item in column A, columns B through G are the names of the people.
What I am trying to do is to have on sheet 2, the words "YES" or "NO" appear under each person's name if they have selected the item whatever the order.
So if Person 1 picks in the dropdown of sheet 1 that they have Item 1, Item 3, Item 2 in this order, I want sheet 2 to show the "YES" or "NO" mention. I don't want the order of the items in the list to be an issue.
So far, I have tried these 2 methods :
=IF('Sheet1'!A2:A25=A2;"YES";"NO")
=IF(RegExMatch('Sheet1'!A2:A25;A2);"YES";"NO")
These do not work as the items must be selected in the same order as they appear in the second sheet. Is there another function that can validate a list in any order and apply the appropriate value?
Thanks ahead!
Jason
Edit : https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1cNn7G9x9o56d_9qM18s3AULkhpfOV5Y-b55vycCUyLY/edit?usp=sharing
Sheet2!B2:
=ARRAYFORMULA(IF(ISERROR(MATCH($A$2:$A$100;Sheet1!A2:A25;0));false;true))
MATCH Sheet1A column against Sheet2A column
IF MATCH returns error, FALSE, else TRUE.
I have two columns in Google Sheets: one is the item Name and the other is an indicator of whether it should be included in a drop-down:
In this example I want the drop-down to include Item B and Item C and if I were to change the flags in the Include column I would want my drop-down either to be expanded or constrained as specified.
How should I create a drop-down which will populate based on the Include column?
Assuming Name is in A1 of Sheet1, then perhaps in C2:
=if(B2="Yes",A2,"")
copied down to suit and your Validation..., Criteria: List from a range:
=Sheet1!C:C
I created a dropdown list with a range in Sheet2 in Google Spreadsheets.
The dropdown is filled with a bunch of names.
When I select a particular item I want to update another cell next to it with the data that is on Sheet2 from another column.
For example Sheet2 looks like:
id,name,date
1,John,2015-04-29
2,Adam,2015-03-01
I select John in my dropdown list and I want to display the "date" column of John in another cell on Sheet1.
Assuming John is selected in C3 and your name/date data is in a range named NamedRange1 please try:
=vlookup(C3,NamedRange1,2,0)
If you wanted ID VLOOKUP would not be suitable as it does not "look to the left" and the conventional solution would be an INDEX/MATCH combination instead.
I need to populate a drop down list in a cell (let's say cell B2) of Spreadsheet A (using data validation) on basis of data located in Spreadsheet B (range - C3:C15).
How do I do that? Googled this for several hours - no luck.
Thank you.
Getting the items from another workbook, as opposed to another sheet in the same workbook is similar. It's a two-step process. First, you need to import the data you want to use for the validation items into the workbook where you want to make use of it, then connect it up as described in #uselink126's answer.
An example: Workbook 2 contains a list of fruit names in no particular order. The list has been assigned a named range Fruits for readability, but this isn't necessary. Workbook 1, Sheet 1 has a column of cells where we want to populate a drop-down with the items from Workbook 2.
Step 1 - Importing the data
Add another sheet to Workbook 1 and insert the following formula into cell A1:
=ImportRange("<key>","Sheet1!Fruits")
where <key> is the unique ID Google docs assigned when you created the spreadsheet. In the example, the items are sorted into alphabetical order as part of the import, and to do this you would enter instead:
=Sort (ImportRange("<key>","Sheet1!Fruits"), 1, true)
The 1, signifies column 1 is what to sort by, true means sort ascending. The cells in column 1 should populate with the sorted fruits.
Step 2 - Point the data validation to the imported list
On Workbook 1, Sheet 1, Select the cells you want to have the fruits as their drop-down data source.
- Right-click the selection and click on Data Validation from the menu. Set Criteria to List from a range and enter Sheet2!A1:A20
That's it. The drop-down chevrons should appear in those cells and when clicked the list of fruits should appear.
Note that this is "live" - adding an item of fruit to Workbook 2's list will also magically add it sorted in the drop-down list.
The format to access cells from another spreadsheet in Google Sheets is:
SheetName!CellAddress
For example, let's say you have a Google Sheet that contains 2 spreadsheets named: Sheet1 and Sheet2 (The names are listed on the tabs at bottom left hand side of each sheet).
In Sheet1 if you wanted to access cell B2 in Sheet2, you reference it by inputting: Sheet2!B2
In Sheet2 if you wanted to access cells C3:C15 in Sheet1 , you reference those cells by inputting: Sheet1!C3:C15
To specifically add cells from another sheet to a dropdown:
1) Select the cell you want the dropdown in
2) Right click on the cell and select Data Validation
3) In the dialog box, click the grid image in the Criteria input box
4) This will bring up the "What Data?" dialog box
5) Click on the tab for the sheet you want to access
6) Hold down shift and click on the cells you want to select (you will see the cell addresses show up in the input box in the "What Data?" dialog)
7) Click OK and you are set. The data will update if you make changes in the source sheet.
More info: https://support.google.com/docs/answer/186103?hl=en
Similar to rossmcm's answer but with a few tweaks because his answer didn't work for me:
=IMPORTRANGE(spreadsheet_url; range_string)
Where spreadsheet_url is The full URL of the spreadsheet from where data will be imported, and range_string a string, of the format "[sheet_name!]range" (e.g. "Sheet1!A2:B6" or "A2:B6") specifying the range to import.
Example:
=IMPORTRANGE("https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1EwEn_2dSbgAlR7jJ7UT_MyE3h1-Biq3qoovfIGUnVlo/edit#gid=0", "Sheet1!A1:A7")
More info from Google DOCS Help!