I am creating a Google Data Studio report for a car dealership and I have a problem.
I have made these 3 screenshots to illustrate:
If you see on the first screenshot, the datasource is pretty simple, used/new indicates weather the car being sold is new or used and if it is a sportscar or family car, and exchange/clean deal indicates weather the dealership takes/buys the customers old car in for a trade off in price. The rest should be self explanatory.
On screenshot2-3 you see my report, I have one table for each salesperson and it shows the amount of sales for each combination that has sales.
The problem is this, I want the tables to show each combination even if it does not have any sales at all, it should just show 0 then in record count. Like Mike on the left has more combinations than john, I still want Johns table to show those combinations just with a 0 then, and it should be sorted the same on each table so they look the same, just different data in the cells.
Is this possible to do?
To solve this problem, you need to make a combination of data, from the database with itself. Your main analysis dimension, which will generate your combinations, is used/new and Exchange/Clean deal. So your combination should be:
The filter defined in the second database (right base) must contain a filter telling which person the table will be destined for. So, for each table, you must make a new combination that contains the person-specific filter.
I just took a sample from your original database (10 first lines) and the result is:
Currently working on making a portfolio tracker.
im looking probably for a if statement that will change my Quantity of shares held to a negative if another column is labeled as 'SELL'. You can see from the image provided, the right column is what im looking for.
simple IF switch:
=IF(B2="sell"; GOOGLEFINANCE()*-1; GOOGLEFINANCE())
I'm setting up a Google Sheet that will calculate the most effective purchase size of specific agricultural inputs (fertilizer, chemical, etc). I set up the price data in its own tab with a separate row for each input name + size.
To keep it easy for the user I'd like to require only the input name, # of gallons per acre, and acres and then have a formula spit out the total cost and most effective purchase (bulk if > X gallons, X # of 250 gallon containers + X 55 drums, etc). How can I use the input name plus a wildcard to find the appropriate purchase size?
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1bMOPuk2qhmVuJT7vE_ni3KFxfcgKvwTwkM4p50xQF_0/edit?usp=sharing
I tried:
=ArrayFormula(iferror(INDEX('Data (Current)'!H2:H,SMALL(IF($A2&"*"='Data (Current)'!A2:A,ROW('Data (Current)'!A2:A)-1),1))))
...but it returns blank so I'm guessing the reference $A2&"*" to the input name isn't working properly. When I replace it with a string found in the 'Data (Current)' tab then it works fine.
=ArrayFormula(iferror(INDEX('Data (Current)'!H2:H,SMALL(IF($A2&"*"='Data (Current)'!A2:A,ROW('Data (Current)'!A2:A)-1),1))))
I expected the output to be the smallest value (in this case I think it's 5). Then when I change the last number to 2 or 3 it will find the next smallest value, in this case, 55 or 250. Then I can use simple formulas to interact with that and finish the spreadsheet.
Unfortunately, the actual output is nothing, or "".
Sorry if this isn't what you're looking for, as I had some trouble understanding your question.
Presuming what you want is essentially this:
I want to buy Y quantity of item.
I can buy item at cheaper prices if I buy in higher quantities, although sometimes they have a minimum order quantity.
What is the most optimal combination of the options I have to minimize the price I pay?
I'm unsure if there's a simple solution for this within Google Sheets alone. This might be treading more into Apps Script territory.
However, that's not to say that it's not impossible. I've "brute-forced" the above solution above with an iterative-like approach, for the "Chelated Calcium" product: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1YSBiSx0IMr4T0R11Dqb-tqOhH4AOTTAWeH2yQfT4X5w
First, list the data in a standardized manner. This includes giving each same product something easy to look it up by. For example, on the Data (Current) tab, I've added 3 columns:
Product Common Name - This is used so that all items of different quantities can be found easily, without needing wildcards.
Gallons - Much easier to parse the data if it it's explicitly laid out.
Minimum Order Gallons - This is your threshold for Bulk. I've set it at an arbitrary 20,000 gallons for Chelated Calcium.
The data here is ordered least-effective first. How you do this will be up to you. In this case, I sorted by the Retail Cost Per Ounce parameter from your sheet, highest first. This eliminates any guesswork about which of the options are most effective, since you can just traverse your options in order. Note: The way I've laid out the formulas will only work IFF the same products are directly next to each other. It won't work if there are other products between them.
On the Field Level Tool tab, standardize your inputs to the Gallons unit. I do this in Total Gallons Needed column (I multiply anything with a "GAL" with 1, and "QUART" with 0.25).
For each item, determine the row numbers where the product begins and ends. This is marked by columns L (Least Efficient Index) and M (Most Efficient Index). I got these results by using the MATCH function.
Set up the iterations, from 0 to N-1. On this sheet, I've set up N=5 iterations, which means that it can traverse 5 different options of the same product only. Since Chelated Calcium only has 4 different options (5 Gal, 30 Gal, 250 Gal, Bulk), 5 is more than enough for this product. If you have products with more options, you may want to have more iterations.
The iterations are on the right side of the Field Level Tool tab.
In your case, you might want to put it on a different tab since the place I put it makes the file look very messy.
In each iteration, I perform the following steps:
To Fulfill - How many gallons still need to be purchased by this iteration?
ThisIndex - What is the row number of this iteration? This is determined by Most Efficient Index - Iteration Number. Remember that since we sorted in order of ascending efficiency, this means that the iteration starts with the most efficient option it can find first. There is a check to make sure that it only outputs a value if it is between the range [Least Efficient Index, Most Efficient Index]. Otherwise, it will be blank to avoid miscalculations by intruding into another product in the Data (Current) tab.
Retail Price, Minimum Gals, Gallons per Order - Simple data extraction for easy usage in the iteration, using INDEX (and indirectly, MATCH by virtue of ThisIndex).
Order - This formula does a couple of things, outlined below:
It checks whether there still remains a valid choice of product at this iteration. It does this by checking whether ThisIndex still exists. If the product doesn't exist, then it will be nulled. This is accomplished by using the IF function.
It will determine if there is a minimum threshold that must be met to purchase this choice. You can see in the 0th iteration, for example, that there is a minimum quantity of 20,000 gallons. If To Fulfill quantity is greater than or equal to the threshold OR there is no threshold, then a purchase is quantified by this column. The mathematics are simply to divide the To Fulfill amount by the Gallons per Order amount to determine the number of orders of this particular product choice. If there is a threshold but the To Fulfill amount doesn't meet it, then this iteration is skipped with a 0 order value.
If the item is already on its least efficient choice (ThisIndex == Least Efficient Index), it will do a CEILING function to ensure that the order is fulfilled. If not, it will do a FLOOR function instead. This is because you cannot order 3.5 units of an item, so they have to be rounded either up or down.
Expenditure - This is simply Order multiplied by the Retail Price, or how much money you spend in this iteration.
Remaining - How much of the product is left unfulfilled at the end of this iteration, to be used as To Fulfill for the next iteration.
Note: If you see formulas that are of the form =IF(ThisIndex, [calculations_here],), that is simply a check to nullify that calculation if ThisIndex is invalid.
Copy the iterations as many times as you want to the right. Something nice to do is to force the iterations to do a CEILING on the very last one to ensure that you never under-buy.
Generate a user-readable string for the purchase suggestion. You can see this on the Suggested Purchase column.
Calculate the Gallons Bought with a simple SUMPRODUCT over all the iterations.
Calculate the total expenditure with a simple SUM over all the iterations.
I hope this is what you were looking for. Regardless, it's at least a fun exercise on how much you can abuse Sheets. ;)
I have an application that interfaces with QuickBooks and I am using the BILLADD transaction. The application pulls bill transactions from another data base and updates quickbooks. The billadd transactions that we are pushing to quickbooks have several expense lines. Some of the expense lines are negative(credits) to the vendor. I can manually enter a negative number on a new bill, but the get an error when trying to do it programmatically.
Can anyone tell me if it is possible to do this with billadd or do I need a different transaction type to add the credits?
Scott
As long as the total of the bill is not negative, you should be able to add negative expenses. If you need to enter a negative bill, you would need to enter it as a IVendorCreditAddRq. I tested it with adding a bill with -10, +100, and -50 line expenses and was able to save it without a problem.
Could you post your request and the response you are getting?
I have problem in my new rails project.I want to implement a function which can show the user's info completeness by a bar like Linkedin.
I think I can use a variable to record the completeness,but I don't have any idea about how to calculate it.
P.S I have two Model,one is the User Model,another is the Info Model.
This is, in fact, completely arbitrary. It's based entirely on which activities on the site you want to encourage.
A couple of mechanisms you can consider:
Model "accomplishments" with a completed/not completed status. Count up the ones you care about. Store the accomplishments based on activity either as they happen or at the end of the day in some batch job. For each user, calculate the percentage with the usual math (accomplishments completed/sum of available accomplishments) * 100 = percentage.
A variation of the same, but weighted based on what you consider more valuable contributions. In this case, the math is basically sum of (weight n * accomplishment n)/total weight.
The previous Careers.stackoverflow.com model made a geeky joke about Spinal Tap by making it possible to have counts greater than 100%. You can do that simply by undercounting the maximum accomplishments.