I've posted a demo Access db at http://www.derekbeck.com/Database0.accdb . I'm using Access 2007.
I am importing an excel spreadsheet, which my organization gets weekly, importing it into Access. It gets imported the table [imported Task list]. From there, an append query reformats it and appends it to my [Master Task List] table.
Previously, we have had a form, where we would manually go through the newest imports, and manually select whether our department was the primary POC for a tasking. I want to automate this.
What syntax do I require, such that the append query will parse the text from [imported Task list].[Department], searching for those divisions listed on [OurDepartments] table (those parts of our company for which we are tracking these tasks), and then select the appropriate Lookup field (connected to [OurDepartments] table) in our [Master Task List] table?
I know that's a mouth full... Put another way, I want the append query update the [Master Task List].[OurDepartments], which is a lookup, based on parsing the text of [imported Task list].[Department].
Note the tricky element: we have to parse the text for "BA" as well as "BAD", "BAC", etc. The shorter "BA" might be an interesting issue for this query.
Hoping for a Non-VBA solution.
Thanks for taking a look!
Derek
PS: Would be very helpful if anyone might be able to respond within the work week. Thx!
The answer is here: http://www.utteraccess.com/forum/Append-Query-Selects-L-t1984607.html
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I've read a few similar questions, and I can't seem to find exactly what I'm trying to do.
I have a roster of employees in sheet "Roster" with their names in Column A. In sheet "Hours" I have a list of assigned jobs for tomorrow, with the assigned employee's name also in Column A. I'm trying to add a column of employees from the roster that are NOT in the list of employees on jobs.
The closest I've gotten is with this, on the Hours sheet:
=ARRAYFORMULA(VLOOKUP('Roster'!A2:A, A2:A,1,0))
which gives me a list of the entire roster, with the missing ones returning an #N/A error that tells me the missing name when I mouse over it and read the error code. Is there a way to just get a list of the errors? Would I be better off attacking this from a completely different angle?
EDIT: Sanitized example pictures. If what I was trying to do worked, it would return Bob and Jim in this example.
Assuming you're trying to return this list in the "Hours" sheet, you can build off what you had. Try this:
=ARRAYFORMULA(FILTER(A2:A,ISERROR(VLOOKUP('Roster'!A2:A, A2:A,1,0))))
Keep in mind that this formula was written sight-unseen. If it doesn't work as expected, consider sharing a link to a copy of your sheet (or to a sample sheet set up the same way and with enough sanitized but realistic data to illustrate the problem, along with the manually entered result you want in the range where you want it).
I ended up going a completely different route. I made a third "Under the Hood" sheet, pulled the two columns into it with queries, ran a match formula down the list and returned "" on errors, then ran a query on Hours to get the names where it had null for the match list.
I've been working on building a data analysis sheet, which is quite verbose at the moment and a bit more complicated than it should be as I've been trying to figure this out. Please note, I work doing student data in a school.
Basically, I have two sets of input data:
Data imported from a CSV file that includes test data and codes for Common Core Standards and the questions tied to those standards as a whole class summary
Data imported from a CSV file that includes individual scores by question
I am looking to construct 2 views:
A view that collates and displays data of individual standards per student that includes a dropdown to change the standard allowing a teacher to see class performance by standard in a broad view. The drop-down is populated dynamically from the input data (so staff could eventually dump data and go directly to reports)
A view that collates and displays data of individual students broken down by performance on each standard allowing a teachers to see the broader spectrum for each student. The student drop-down is populated from Source list 2.
I have been able to build the first view, but am struggling with the second. I've been able to separate the question codes and develop strings of cell references to the scoring data, including a dynamic reference to the row the selected student's score data appears on in the second source set from above.
I tried to pass through an indirect() formula into a sum() so as to process for a mean evaluation, and have encountered errors. I think SUM() doesn't process comma-separated cell reference lists from Indirect() [or in general] or there is something that I am missing to help parse it. Here is the formula I have tried:
=Sum(vlookup(D7,CCCodeManip!$A:$C,3,false))
CCCodeManip!C:C includes the created text (based on the dynamic standards and question codes, etc), here's an example of what would be found there:
'M-ADI'!M17, 'M-ADI'!N17, 'M-ADI'!O17, 'M-ADI'!P17, 'M-ADI'!Q17, 'M-ADI'!R17, 'M-ADI'!J17
I need these to be dynamic so that teachers can input different sets of standards, question, and student data and the sheet automatically collates and reports it in uniform ways (with an upward bound of 20 standards as I currently have it built)
Here is a link to the sheet I built, with names and ID anonymized. There's a CRAP TON of sub-tabs, and that's really just being able to split apart and re-combine data neatly without things error-ing out due to data overlapping, aside from a few different attempts and different approaches to parse the cell reference strings.
The first two tabs are the current status of the data views. I plan to hide a bunch of the functional stuff that is there to help pull data accurately.
The 3rd and 4th tab are the source data sets. 5th is a modified version of source data that allows me to reference things better, and I've tried to arrange the sheets most relevant towards the front of the set.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1fR_2n60lenxkvjZSzp2VDGyTUO6l-3wzwaV4P-IQ_5Y/edit?usp=sharing
Some have a different approach? I am aware that I might be as far as I cn go with this and perhaps should consider scripts - my coding experience is a bit out of date and my strength is more with the formulas, but I can dig into things with some direction, if anyone can help.
Ok so I noticed something.
It seems the failure is in the indirect reference:
=indirect(CCCodeManip!C3)
The string I am trying to parse via indirect is going to be generated into something like this, dynamic from reference to other data:
'M-ADI'!M17, 'M-ADI'!N17, 'M-ADI'!O17, 'M-ADI'!P17, 'M-ADI'!Q17, 'M-ADI'!R17, 'M-ADI'!J17
The indirect returns the error that the above string is not a cell reference with the #REF code.
Can someone give me a clue as to what is causing this? I am going to dig into the docs on Indirect() from google and will post anything that I find.
Perhaps it is that indirect() can't handle lists, but only specific references and arrays, which may require me a to build a sheet to do the SUM formula on for each question set (?)
So I think I figured it out, but i Ended up parsing the data differently, basically doing the sum based on individual cell references and a separate sum formula, bypassing the need to do it all at once, it jsut makes my sheets a lot dirtier! I am eventually going to see if code could do it better if I need to, but this is closed for now.
Basically, I did individual cell references to recall scores in a row, then used a separate SUM formula, and created references / structures to be able to pull those sum() results. Achieves the same end, but with extra crap on the sheet.
I need to build a search form including some fields like "city, price range, key word and date". I saw this video which is recommending to create a "searches" table. Every time any user made a search, it creates a table row in the db, and show the results depending on the submitted fields.
Seems easy to build but is it safe? I mean, if this is used in the practical world, I think we also have to use "I'm not robot" from Google.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRE7KxIvUb4&t=29s
Any idea is welcome.
I am making a spreadsheet template to convert database information and am looking for a more automated way of doing this. Currently I have a Catalog of items and a List of Assets. My goal is to read all the assets' Product Name and look it up in the Catalog and pull the row of information on that product.
I am able to create an arraylist to match a list of Product Names in the Catalog, (this returns a list of indices corresponding to the Catalog)
=ArrayFormula(match(Data!T3:T,Data!L3:L,0))
and I am able to pull the information of a single Product Name from the Catalog. (This returns the row at the index where the Product Name was found in the Catalog)
=index(Catalog,match(Data!T3,Data!L3:L,0))
However, when I attempt to combine the operations into
=ArrayFormula(index(Catalog,match(Data!T3:T,Data!L3:L,0)))
the ArrayFormula doesn't work and it just pulls the information of the first item in the list.
Does anyone know what I might be doing wrong or if ArrayFormula even has the capability to do something like this?
Here is a link to an example Spreadsheet
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ML-jAx2O_0FY0p42ytVmJEF12P92mi4WOa1wl2Wx8tY/edit#gid=1397027595
Thank you
So I'm not 100% sure if this is what your specifically asking, but arrayformula doesn't work to pull more in this particular case, but for example if you place this formula in B6 and copy the same formula down, it matches that section etc and you can continue to modify it based on which pieces of data you want back.
=INDEX(Data!M:Q,MATCH(A6,Data!L:L,0))
The spreadsheet does seem to be working incredibly slow though, even without that much data on the sample - are you importing something else in there?
TFS supports querying on tags, but I can't find a way to create a TFS work item query to return results that have no tags or any tag.
It is not possible to sort the Tag column in the TFS web access, so I can't even return all work items and then sort on the column to focus on those with tags and those without tags.
For example, I was hoping to see a wild card or any for the Tags value below:
I'm about a year too late, but I just accomplished this by doing Tags, Does Not Contain, "". I know that makes no sense, but it worked. I was able to pull in a task that had no tag.
This is not exactly helpful in the tool, but works to get the information. I select all, copy, paste into a worksheet. I can format as table and sort the results to get what I need. It is not very helpful for in tool info, but it works. Another option is to install the TFS Plugin with Excel, you can create and modify items using an existing query, sort items, add items, filter to show only items that do not have a tag, etc.
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms181675.aspx?f=255&MSPPError=-2147217396
Can you do Tags=""?
I am not sure I understand the use case, but you can sugest new features on http://visualstudio.uservoice.com