My spreadsheet looks like this:
I have two lists of dates, I want to get all unique dates between Dates1 and Dates2 and put them in column C.
I can get unique dates in column A with UNIQUE(A2:A4), but I want all unique dates between both columnms. When I try to do =UNIQUE(A2:A4,B2:B5) I get the error:
Wrong number of arguments to UNIQUE. Expected 1 arguments, but got 2 arguments.
How can I get all unique dates between both? I've also tried concatenate, but that just gives me a huge number, not a row of dates.
Thanks!
unique formula can only work with single column. Try this formula:
=UNIQUE({A2:A4;B2:B5})
{ } will convert 2 columns into one: {A2:A4;B2:B5}
See more info here:
https://support.google.com/docs/answer/6208276?hl=en
Put all cells on the argument ie UNIQUE(A2:B5)
For seperate columns, create a dummy column next to the one you are comparing to, set its contents to the actual column, then use Unique
Use iferror to pass processing to a second version of a 'unique list' formula with different columns.
=IFERROR(INDEX(A$2:INDEX(A:A, MATCH(1E+99, A:A)), MATCH(0, COUNTIF(D$1:D1, A$2:INDEX(A:A, MATCH(1E+99, A:A))), 0)),
IFERROR(INDEX(B$2:INDEX(B:B, MATCH(1E+99, B:B)), MATCH(0, COUNTIF(D$1:D1, B$2:INDEX(B:B, MATCH(1E+99, B:B))), 0)), TEXT(,)))
Turns out (thanks to Keatinge) that UNIQUE takes an array of ranges separated by a semi-colon and wrapped in braces. Putting the range limiters from my own solution in achieves:
=unique({A$2:INDEX(A:A, MATCH(1E+99, A:A));C$2:INDEX(C:C, MATCH(1E+99, C:C))})
That sample google-sheets is here.
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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:
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.
I want to make an array with several columns. The second and subsequent columns are specified as a range pulled from another sheet. The first column is a static constant, that is, every cell in the first column should have the very same literal string value, say 'foo'. I can't find the correct syntax. I'd have thought something like this would work:
={"foo", 'Other Sheet'!C2:F}
but I get "Function ARRAY_ROW parameter 2 has mismatched row size. Expected: 1. Actual: 999." Clearly "foo" needs to be "expanded" to a column with lots of rows. How do I do it, and where are tricks like this documented?
Maybe the answer to this question would give a start: How do I create an array containing a single column, every cell containing "foo", with the number of columns specified by a different range?
Here is an editable sheet illustrating the problem and the desired solution:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/17myzKVFN3SDQuubWNdP-dFAbdvdlRbZFkjRpLi2Fas8/edit?usp=sharing
The exact question is this: what formula can I put in cell B9 of Sheet1 to get the current appearance of Sheet1? Notice that I don't know in advance how many rows there are in 'Other Sheet'. It's OK to assume that all rows of Other Sheet have a nonblank value in column C.
You can loop with an arrayformula and assign them to the first column, ending the array with the same size:
={ARRAYFORMULA(if(len('Other Sheet'!C2:C),"foo",)),'Other Sheet'!C2:F}
Side note: that between the {}, if you put a comma ({expr1 , expr2}), the value will be side by side, and if you put a semicolon ({expr1 ; expr2}), the values will be one above the other.
You can use QUERY for that:
=QUERY('Other Sheet'!C2:F, "select 'foo',C,D,E,F where C is not null")
If you want to remove the 'foo' column header, you can use:
=QUERY('Other Sheet'!C2:F, "select 'foo',C,D,E,F where C is not null label 'foo' ''")
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.
I have two columns I'd like to compare data in. The first column has about 50 rows, whereas the second column has 200 rows.
I would like to be able to tell if any cell in the first column matches up with a value in the second column.
I first tried this with the QUERY() function
=QUERY(A12:B, "Select A where A = B")
but this didn't seem to work, I got a circular dependency error.
I then tried the array function.
=ARRAYFORMULA(if(A12:A=B12:B,"REMOVE_ME", "DON'T REMOVE ME"))
but this was outputting incorrect values. Is there an easier way to do this or am I missing something?
Here is sample data: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1IVUksDc79uJPfe6_Yfkp-EBelzh-U3q1EIiYlguQoRw/edit?usp=sharing
The value 6 is given MATCH because there is a value 6 somewhere in Column B.
Use this formula in C2:
=IFERROR(IF(VLOOKUP(A2,$B$2:$B$22,1,0)>0,"MATCH","NO MATCH"),"NO MATCH")