TL;DR: I'm basically trying to obtain a column range such as 'Sheet 1'!$A:$A where the A is obtained by matching the contents of a given cell to a 1:1 range within a sheet referenced by another given cell, for use in a dynamic range.
In the highly probable case where that made zero sense, here's an illustration:
PARAMETERS: A2 = "LIST" | C2 = "FirstName" | Desired result: 'LIST'!$A:$A
And I've obtained that, BUT, I can't use that output ('LIST'!$A:$A) within formulas (namely to create a dynamic range). For instance, here 'LIST'!$A:$A contains 101 cells with values in them:
V3 = NamedFormula = 'LIST'!$A:$A
COUNTA(INDIRECT(V3)) = 101
COUNTA(INDIRECT(NamedFormula)) = 1 because it evaluates to #VALUE and that is a singular result.
Before delving into the topic of using INDIRECT with a Named Range (which I've read about and am still getting over my confused grief), I'm realizing my Names are getting a bit out of hand. I tend to use Excel like a mad scientist. So, in case there's a much simpler solution to what I'm trying to do, here's my actual mission:
0. I'm building a tool to simplify a process where email addresses are built from different data, which needs to run without any scripts, only formulas.
1. A tab with no imposed name would contain a user database with minimally (firstname and lastname OR IDs) AND (potentially other data columns) in no specific order. Tool users would import that tab from wherever the data got to them depending on the client, and would only need to copy-paste relevant headers to the main tab without changing anything else here for data integrity.
2. The main tab would have specific input fields where tool users would paste in the name of the imported tab as well as the labels of the columns they need (for instance, the labels in the first row of the columns containing the first name and the last name), and an input field for the domain name to use to build those email addresses.
3. A Data tab is referenced for cleaning and preparing strings for email address formats.
4. The Export tab would spew out a list of clean email addresses that can be exported to CSV.
The Data tab is just 2 columns to use with SUBSTITUTE so that for instance apostrophes are removed but accented letters are normalized (é -> e). I've used LAMBDA within Names to get there. The problem is to tie everything in - to get those Named ranges into the final formula.
The Names I'm using so far (I'd like to use fewer but testing specific parts extended beyond simple usage I fear):
ALPH ={"A";"B";"C";"D";"E";"F";"G";"H";"I";"J";"K";"L";"M";"N";"O";"P";"Q";"R";"S";"T";"U";"V";"W";"X";"Y";"Z"}
LABELS =LAMBDA(labelname,ADDRESS(2,MATCH(labelname,INDIRECT("'"&PARAMETERS!$A$2&"'!$1:$1"),0),1,1,PARAMETERS!$A$2))
RANGECOL =LAMBDA(labelname,COLUMN(INDIRECT(LABELS(labelname))))
RNCOL =LAMBDA(label,"'"&PARAMETERS!$A$2&"'!$"&INDEX(ALPH,RANGECOL(label))&":$"&INDEX(ALPH,RANGECOL(label)))
I haven't tied everything in the Data tab yet - I'm still trying to automate my main tab before pushing further and using the Data tab substitutions on top of everything. That will be the next step, not my current focus. But, for the curious and interested, on the Data tab I'm using something something I found on ablebits which works wonders =]
So, now if I use the offset range with a static LIST!A:A it works:
=IF($C$2<>"",LOWER(INDEX(OFFSET(INDIRECT(ADDRESS(2,MATCH($C$2,INDIRECT("'"&$A$2&"'!$1:$1"),0),1,1,$A$2)),0,0,COUNTA(LIST!A:A)-1,1),ROW())),"") &IF($C$3<>"","."&LOWER(INDEX(OFFSET(INDIRECT(ADDRESS(2,MATCH($C$3,INDIRECT("'"&$A$2&"'!$1:$1"),0),1,1,$A$2)),0,0,COUNTA(LIST!A:A)-1,1),ROW())),"") &"#"&$C$4
But when I try to use the dynamic RNCOL($C$3) it does not:
=IF($C$2<>"",LOWER(INDEX(OFFSET(INDIRECT(LABELS($C$2)),0,0,COUNTA(INDIRECT(RNCOL($C$2)))-1,1),ROW())),"") &IF($C$3<>"","."&LOWER(INDEX(OFFSET(INDIRECT(LABELS($C$3)),0,0,COUNTA(INDIRECT(RNCOL($C$3)))-1,1),ROW())),"") &"#"&$C$4
This just gives #REF, and evaluating shows the digression starting at INDIRECT(RNCOL($C$3)) equating to #VALUE.
I'm starting to see double here but my undying and completely normal love for Excel prevents me from going home from work as I'm way too far down the rabbit hole to let my obsession die here.
Any pointers as to how this can work?
Note - all of the names in the supplied sheet were generated by an online fake name generator, nothing in here is actual user data #GDPR
Thanks in advance! <3
Test sheet is available via Google Drive.
Your current set-up is not good for many reasons, and in my opinion would require a complete overhaul, the scope of which lies beyond a response on this website.
As to a 'quick fix' to your current issue, the reason your formula in E1 is currently returning an error is due to the fact that, as you can see via stepping through with the Evaluate Formula tool, the part
COUNTA(INDIRECT(RNCOL($C$2)))-1
is resolving to
COUNTA(INDIRECT({"'LIST'!$A:$A"}))-1
and this is not the same as
COUNTA(INDIRECT("'LIST'!$A:$A"))-1
in that the value being passed to INDIRECT is an array in the former though not in the latter. Although INDIRECT can accept arrays, it is only within certain constructions in conjunction with other suitable functions; here it will simply error.
And the reason that it is returning an array is due to the fact that RNCOL($C$2) is returning an array, and that is because that function is defined as
=LAMBDA(label,"'"&PARAMETERS!$A$2&"'!$"&INDEX(ALPH,RANGECOL(label))&":$"&INDEX(ALPH,RANGECOL(label)))
and, since RANGECOL($C$2) resolves to 1 here, the above is equivalent to
"'PARAMETERS!$A$2'!$"&INDEX(ALPH,1)&":$"&INDEX(ALPH,1)
Here, because you are omitting the column_num parameter from INDEX, the part
INDEX(ALPH,1)
is resolving to
{"A"}
which is an array (albeit one comprising a single value) and technically different from
"A"
In most circumstances, this is not an issue. As such, it is almost always unnecessary to pass both a row_num and column_num parameter to INDEX when indexing a one-dimensional array. Here, however, it matters.
You can resolve this by explicitly including a column_num parameter, i.e. redefine RNCOL as
=LAMBDA(label,"'"&PARAMETERS!$A$2&"'!$"&INDEX(ALPH,RANGECOL(label),1)&":$"&INDEX(ALPH,RANGECOL(label),1))
I'm using Lee Mac's length and area field to automatically get the total length of an object.
I'm a complete beginner on AutoLisp so I cant find the variable responsible on holding the total length so I can put it in my snippet code to automatically copy it on my clipboard for easy pasting on excel.
Here's my code snippet for automatically putting it to clipboard
(vlax-invoke
(vlax-get (vlax-get (vlax-create-object "htmlfile") 'ParentWindow) 'ClipBoardData)
'setData
"TEXT"
(getvar
)
Since my application uses AutoCAD field expressions to output the length and/or area, the length & area values are not stored in any variable in the code; furthermore, the resulting values displayed by the selected annotation object (which may also be converted to other units and formatted by the field expression) are only available after the field expression has been evaluated.
Given the above, you would need to obtain the text content of the object selected for output after it has been populated with the field expression, before copying such content to the Windows clipboard.
This would involve modifying every branch of my LM:outputtext function to assign the result of evaluating the field expression to a variable which may then be returned by the function and used by the calling function.
I was trying to enable multi-select for Owner in Employee Time Activities and wanted to try based on below article.
https://asiablog.acumatica.com/2018/01/multi-select-selector.html
Then override view like below:
https://asiablog.acumatica.com/2017/11/sql-in-operator-in-bql.html
However, after I added ValidateValue = false in field:
I am getting this error.
I looked at the custom attribute and I don't think it could be replaced with anything keeping the same implementation.
So, is there any other way I can accomplish multi select feature to allow display Employee Time Activities for selected employees at once besides the ideas mentioned above?
Thanks.
Your primary issue is that DimensionSelector is different than Selector.
Secondary thing to keep in mind that when you do Multiselector you would need to update the field that holds the values to have a longer length. The way a multiselector works is that it stored the saved values as a ; (semicolon) separated string. so if the field was 10 long you would want to expand to whatever you expect the max number of selected values would be, e.g. 40 would be 480, 40x10 + 40x2, 10 being the original size, 2 being a semicolon and space. (hope that makes sense :) )
Next you would have to update all the functional business logic to then parse that string and loop each, in this case, employee for the functions.
I am speaking very generically here. So not sure what you're actually attempting to do here, but one would assume that if you were selecting multiple employees you would want records to reflect accordingly.
Trying to increment a Unique ID field in my SharePoint list every time my flow runs. Ex: If the Unique ID field in the last row before the flow runs again is "M10389". Then after the flow runs, a new item will be created underneath it and its Unique ID will be "M10390".
The only piece of the flow that doesn't work is the Unique ID part. Here are the pieces of code within the Unique ID field of the create item action block that won't work, but should.
I've tried:
concat(string(M),add(10386,triggerBody()?['resourceData']?['responseId']))
and
concat(M,add(10386,triggerBody()?['resourceData']?['responseId']))
P.S. The "triggerBody()?['resourceData']?['responseId']" is the number of submissions from the form that triggers this flow, and is how I am incrumenting the Unique ID field by one.
Neither work and I think it has something to do with the concat() function, because concat(m,n) doesnt work, neither does concat(string(M),string(2)), or even concat(string(m),string(n)). In fact, the only time concat works is when I'm using 2 numbers like concat(52,7).
The error message simply reads:
"us.flow.microsoft.com says
The expression is invalid."
How do I achieve what I'm after within power automate?
Picture of what this looks like:
A bit similar to Muhammad's answer. Try using a variable, and set the value of the variable to "triggerBody()?['resourceData']?['responseId']".
Then increment by 1 or any arbitrary number and use as needed.
Well another approach to achieve the same could be two create two variables, one to increment unique id number part and second one is to compose the unique id. you can set value of uniqueIdNumbervariable using the Add function like you are already doing i.e.
add(10386,triggerBody()?['resourceData']?['responseId']))
Then you can set the value of second variable uniqueID by using another set variable action i.e.
M uniqueIdNumber
(you need to select 'uniqueIdNumber'variable from dynamic content, in set variable value action for uniqueID variable. )
Then you can use uniqueID variable in Create Item action.
I want get all values of dropdown and want to store them somewhere. from follwing NASDAQ site https://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/ge/historical i want get all values of Timeframe and want to somewhere so that i can use those values one b one in loop and get the values of stock for all timeframe. Click below image screenshot
It's not that easy to get each of the values, but it's not impossible. First you can get all the values in a Data Item as text. If you spy the element, you will notice that the attribute Value contains what you want. So you will need to use a read stage and get this specific attribute's value (you can ignore the PDF elements):
Doing so will give you the following:
The problem with this is that you cannot use this in a loop. One way around would be to split on space:
And the resulting collection (I called it Split Values) will look like this:
But it's not quite there yet. You should however be able to use this collection to get the collection you need (or use it directly).
If you use it directly, I would say it should look like this:
Empty? has the expression [Split Values.words]="" (notice the last row is blank)
Value is number has the expression IsNumber([Split Values.words])
Set Current Item as Number has expression [Split Values.words] with store value Current Item.
Append word to Current Item has expression [Current Item]&" "&[Split Values.words] with store value Current Item.