How to import multiple column values with one condition? - google-sheets

I am having problems in getting the values. I need to get the values of July 10, 2020 to July 25, 2020 under column TL "June Troy". I have tried to do query with importrange and filter with importrange. But I cannot get it right. Please help.

If I understand your question, the following query should work for you:
=QUERY(ARRAYFORMULA(TO_TEXT({importrange("https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1CQkhI5dZoIUfoKF1aQ8lm1Y8rmOOZapaoYBJw8BJTSE/edit?usp=sharing","Attendance!A1:BC99")})),
"select Col7,Col8,Col9,Col10,Col11,Col12,Col13,Col14,Col15,Col16,Col17,Col18,Col19,Col20,Col21,Col22,Col23,Col24,Col25 where Col7 = 'June Troy' ",1)
Note that since your test data has June Troy on every row, this ends up selecting every row.
More importantly, your "value" columns have mixed data types, both numeric and string values, and QUERY ignores the minority data types and returns blanks for those values. So I included the TO_TEXT function to convert individual cells to text before passing them to the QUERY. And to make the TO_TEXT act on every cell in the range, it is wrapped in an ARRAYFORMULA.
Let us know if this works for you.
UPDATED: To correct formula. Sorry about that.

This is an answer to your second question, which should perhaps be a separate from the first part, since it is a different issue. But yes, you should be able to connect two IMPORTRANGE queries. Consider this formula:
={
QUERY(ARRAYFORMULA(TO_TEXT({importrange("https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1CQkhI5dZoIUfoKF1aQ8lm1Y8rmOOZapaoYBJw8BJTSE/edit?usp=sharing","Attendance!A1:BC99")})),
"select Col7,Col8,Col9,Col10,Col11,Col12,Col13,Col14,Col15
where Col7 = 'June Troy' ",1),
QUERY(ARRAYFORMULA(TO_TEXT({importrange("https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1CQkhI5dZoIUfoKF1aQ8lm1Y8rmOOZapaoYBJw8BJTSE/edit?usp=sharing","Attendance!A1:BC99")})),
"select Col16,Col17,Col18,Col19,Col20,Col21,Col22,Col23,Col24,Col25
where Col7 = 'June Troy' ",1)
}
Basically, you would have two very similar queries. In my example, I point them both at the same sheet, but you can point to a different link, for one of the queries.
They are wrapped in braces, "{...}", to form a new array. And most importantly, the first query has a comma, ",", after it, to force the result of the second query to be in adjacent columns, on the same rows. If you separate the two queries with a semi-colon, ";", the result of the second query would be added as rows underneath the first query, not in columns beside it.
HOWEVER, I think this causes an error if the two queries don't both return the same number of rows. So that will depend on your data. But since you are getting related columns, I'm assuming they should return the same number of rows. If not, share the data from your two sample sheets, and what the desired outcome should look like.

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Unnest two columns in google sheet

I have a table like this one here (basically it's data from a google form with multiple choice answers in column A and B and non-muliple choice data in column C) I need a separate row for each multiple choice answer.
Column A
Column B
Email
A,B
XX,YY
1#gmail.com
A,C
FF,DD
2#gmail.com
I tried to un-nest the first column and keep the remaining columns like this
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I tried several approaches I found with flatten and split with array formulas but I don't know where to start really.
Any help or hint would be much appreciated!
You can use the split function on the column A and after that, use the index function. Considering the table, you can use:
=index(split(A2,","),1,1)
The split function separate the text using the delimiter indicated, returning an array with 1 line and 2 columns; the index function will return the first line and the first column from this array. To return the second element from the column A, just change to
=index(split(A2,","),1,2)
I think there's no easy solution for this. You're asking for as many combinations of elements as multiple-choice elections have been made. Any function in Google Sheets has its potentials and limitations about how many elements it can express. One very useful formula here is REDUCE. With REDUCE and sequences of elements separated by commas counted with COUNTA, you can stablish this formula:
=QUERY(REDUCE({"Col A","Col B","Email"},SEQUENCE(COUNTA(A2:A)),LAMBDA(z,c,{z;LAMBDA(ax,bx,
REDUCE({"","",""},SEQUENCE(ax),LAMBDA(w,a,
{w;
REDUCE({"","",""},SEQUENCE(bx),LAMBDA(y,b,
{y;INDEX(SPLIT(INDEX(A2:A,c),","),,a),INDEX(SPLIT(INDEX(B2:B,c),","),,b),INDEX(C2:C,c)}
))})))
(COUNTA(SPLIT(INDEX(A2:A,c),",")),COUNTA(SPLIT(INDEX(B2:B,c),",")))})),
"Where Col1 is not null",1)
Since I had to use a "initial value" in every REDUCE, I then used QUERY to filter the empty values:

Only apply complex arrayformula() to rows with certain value in dataset

I have a quite complext formula (i mean that is complex to me) that Tom Sharpe helped me building to aggregate values and ordering them by months in a row(you can find the details in the original post but i think you'll only need the final formula which is:
=ArrayFormula(mmult(sequence(1,counta(A2:A),1,0), if((C2:index(C:C,counta(C:C))<=eomonth(G2,sequence(1,datedif(G2,H2,"M")+1,0)))* (D2:index(D:D,counta(D:D))>=eomonth(G2,sequence(1,datedif(G2,H2,"M")+1,0))),E2:index(E:E,counta(E:E)),0)))
and here is the result -> [J1:U1]
Now, what i would need to do as the final step is to be able to group data by a certain label (John or Jane in the example) on separate rows, but mantaining the order/aggregate by month on the row. On the example, this would mean having one row with only 'John' data and below, one with 'Jane' values.
I am struggling to understand how to adapt the formula to do so.
I have tried:
Using another array to first return a list of these labels with query(unique()) or something like that, but then i struggle looping in it with the other formula.
A bit more simplistic but it could work after all: on the 1st row (the cell next to where the data will be returned) writing 'John', on row 2 'Jane' and then using filter() to only pull data that matches. The 'John, Jane' value is for the example but the real labels won't be that many, the list of labels don't need to be dynamic.
The thing with these solutions is that they work when used separately, but i can't figure out how to nest this in the first arrayformula() that Tom helped me with...As i am just beginning with the google sheets queries.
I don't really need necessarily the complete formula/code but maybe just directions or tips to visualize the way i could solve this.
Thanks to all who might contribute
With hindsight I might have done better to go down the route of using a query to calculate the sums on my previous answer rather than Mmult.
This uses the same method as before to create a 2d array of amounts vs dates (going across) and individuals (going down). Then it uses Textjoin to generate a query to group by name with the required number of columns.
=ArrayFormula(query({A2:A,if((C2:C<=eomonth(G2,sequence(1,datedif(G2,H2,"M")+1,0)))* (D2:D>=eomonth(G2,sequence(1,datedif(G2,H2,"M")+1,0))),E2:E,0)},
"select Col1,sum(Col"&textjoin("),sum(Col",,sequence(1,datedif(G2,H2,"M")+1,2))&") where Col1 is not null group by Col1"))
This is the generated query
select Col1,sum(Col2),sum(Col3),sum(Col4),sum(Col5),sum(Col6),sum(Col7),sum(Col8),sum(Col9),sum(Col10),sum(Col11),sum(Col12),sum(Col13) where Col1 is not null group by Col1
Ideally there should be an extra section saying label sum(Col2) '' etc. to suppress the 'Sum' headers.
=ArrayFormula(query({A2:A,if((C2:C<=eomonth(G2,sequence(1,datedif(G2,H2,"M")+1,0)))* (D2:D>=eomonth(G2,sequence(1,datedif(G2,H2,"M")+1,0))),E2:E,0)},
"select Col1,sum(Col"&textjoin("),sum(Col",,sequence(1,datedif(G2,H2,"M")+1,2))&") where Col1 is not null group by Col1 label sum(Col" & textjoin(") '', sum(Col",,sequence(1,datedif(G2,H2,"M")+1,2)) & ") ''"))

FLATTEN skipping blank cells without using UNIQUE

I'm trying to turn an array into a single column without blank cells, considering that the input will always have some blank cells and that there might be repeated values. I'm trying to use FLATTEN but it keeps the blanks and UNIQUE would kill the repeated values, so I can't use.
I also thought about using something like FLATTEN(QUERY(X:X, "select * WHERE col1,col2,col3,col4,col5 IS NOT NULL") but number of columns might be dynamic so I can't say precisely which columns to use.
My input:
Desired output:
Sample sheet here
Any clue?
Use QUERY on the outside:
=QUERY(FLATTEN(YOUR-RANGE-HERE),"Select * WHERE Col1 Is Not Null")
I left an example in your spreadsheet, cell G2.
=flatten(filter(A1:E10;not(isblank(A1:E10))))
or
=flatten(filter(A1:E10;len(A1:E10)))
or
=filter(flatten(A1:E10);len(flatten(A1:E10)))

Google Sheets Query Coalesce?

is there any query syntax that woks like coalesce in google sheets?
if i have a source like pict below
the result i want is only getting id and time if status is true, but the time is only exist in one col either in check column or report column
so the result would be like this...
I tired this but doesn't work
=QUERY(A1:D4, "SELECT A, COALESCE(B, C) WHERE D = TRUE")
any ideas or workarounds?
Thanks
try:
=ARRAYFORMULA(IFERROR(SPLIT(FLATTEN(QUERY(TRANSPOSE(
ARRAY_CONSTRAIN(IF(D2:D=TRUE, {A2:A, IF(B2:C="",,"×"&B2:C), D2:D}, ), 9^9,
COLUMNS(A:C))),, 9^9)), "×")))
A very short one just for the special case of 2 columns where you know that only one of them is populated and they are dates:
=ArrayFormula(to_date(if(D2:D,B2:B+C2:C,)))
Maybe the simplest formula which behaves like coalesce would be
=iferror(if(D2,hlookup(9^9,B2:C2,1,true),))
It's just a pull-down formula but will pick up the first non-blank column from a range of columns containing numbers or dates. If the columns are all blank, it returns blank.
You can take advantage of the either or situation and concatenate the 2 columns.
=filter({A2:A,concat(B2:B,C2:C)},D2:D)
Also see local array and filter
Add a column after Status call it Time (column E), whereas each formula follows this format (assuming your table starts at A3:E)
=if(A4="","",if(B4<>"",B4,C4))
Now query A3:E like so,
=query(A3:E,"Select A,E where D=TRUE")
you can use something like this:
=QUERY(transpose(B1:H1),"Select Col1 where Col1 is not null limit 1",0)
This transposes the row into a column, queries all non-null values from that column, and then set limit 1 to return the first value. So essentially you are selecting the leftmost non-empty value from your row.
I can't take full credit for this, I must have gotten it somewhere else... but it's in one of my sheets.

Only odd columns in arrayformula on google sheets

I have multiple columns that I need to stack into one column. But I only want to have odd columns in the list.
This is the formula I'm working with, which works to get all in one column. But not just odd ones
=TRANSPOSE(SPLIT(ARRAYFORMULA(CONCATENATE(TRANSPOSE(FILTER(A:D,A:A>0)&""))),""))
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1yAPw13VE7uclP0ILzUYxZBgLGid9PrZXpWmhuEgi1S0/edit?usp=sharing
Appreciate the help.
You can also use QUERY with 'skipping 2' option. This takes only every 2nd row so to make it useful you have to transpose your range first. Then you FLATTEN your columns.
As you can see, there's a different order of values:
=flatten(query(transpose(A1:D4),"select * skipping 2 "))
This should do it:
=QUERY(FLATTEN(FILTER(A:D,ISODD(COLUMN(A:D)))),"Select * Where Col1 Is Not Null")
FILTER filters in all cells from odd columns.
FLATTEN makes one column of all of the FILTERed results.
QUERY weeds out blank rows.

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