I have set up a set of forms on excel that can append or update information to an access database.
Due to their being multiple forms, I want to create a spreadsheet, which acts as a hyperlink centre to the form the user needs.
Their are only to ‘branches’ of forms the users can use:
Add new data forms
And
Update Existing data forms
Each of these branches has say, 5 forms (so 10 in total)
The spreadsheet I’ve set up has two tabs
Tab 1 - user end sheet (‘user’)
Tab 2 - list and hyperlinks (‘info’)
On the user end sheet there is a list to select which branch of forms the user wants the link to (Cell D11)
Add
Or
Update
From there a secondary dependant drop down list shows the forms available from that branch (Cell D16)
Finally, there is a cell which I’d like to display the hyperlink to the form they have selected.
I’ve searched around a lot, however I can’t find the fix.
The formula in full is:
=IF(user!D16=“”,””,IF(user!D11=“Add”,HYPERLINK(“#”&INDEX(info!$D$9:$E$13,MATCH(user!D16,info!$D$9:$E$13,0)),(VLOOKUP(D16,info!$D$9:$E$13,2,0))),HYPERLINK(“#”&INDEX(info!$G$9:$H$13,MATCH(user!D16,info!$G$9:$H$13,0)),(VLOOKUP(user!D16,info!$G$9:$H$13,2,0)))))
The hyperlink formulas:
HYPERLINK(“#”&INDEX(info!$D$9:$E$13,MATCH(user!$D$16,info!$D$9:$E$13,0))
And
HYPERLINK(“#”&INDEX(info!$G$9:$H$13,MATCH(user!$D$16,info!$G$9:$H$13,0))
The result simply returns #N/A
I’ve tried:
INDEX
“#&INDEX(…)”
“#”&”INDEX(…)”
And knocking all of the if statements out, leaving only the hyperlink function there.
The hyperlinks work fine in the info tab.
Any help would be massively appreciated, thanks in advance.
Solved.
Issue was that the hyperlinks id set up already had a ‘friendly name’, changed to raw link and then was able to replace index match simply with Vlookups.
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I'm wondering if it is at all possible to use Data Validation in Microsoft Excel (2007) without creating a Drop Down list.
I'm currently creating a seating plan for work. I want the user to have the ability to freely type in the name in a cell (Desk). There are 7 teams of approximately 10-12 people. so finding a name in a long list would take up too much time. however the name typed in the cell has to be be an exact match from a list stored else where in the spreadsheet. The reason for this is i use a formula to show if everyone has been seated or not.
if a name is typed in and its not an exact i would like for an error message to pop up.
Any ideas if this is even possible?
im open to VBA. but a complete noob when it comes to VBA.
Thanks in advance.
Tom
To get DV without the drop-down, use the Custom > Formula option. Here is an example:
Only the set defined by the formula will be accepted and no drop-down will appear when the cell is clicked.
I have a survey in Sharepoint 2010. Now i added a new question . Then I went to survey settings to make sure that this question is order 1 . However when i export the survey to excel spreadsheet , this question is the in the last column ?
in the survey itself , the new question appears the first , order 1(BTW there is no branching ) .
However when i export it to spreadsheet it it the last . How can make this question to be the first in the spreadsheet either ?
The Export to Excel function simply takes the SharePoint list data without any views applied. So that means it takes the columns in the order they were created.
You could delete the columns and recreate them with the first column being created first, then the second and so on. But if there is a lot of data you want to keep in those columns you could keep it and simply create another list then find a way to copy the items over to the new list.
I believe the "export to spreadsheet" function in SharePoint surveys use the "Overview" (view) by default.
Go into SharePoint Designer and select your survey list
Under the "View" section (on the right) select "Overview". It should be the
default
Double-click overview to open / edit it
Look for the "Viewfields" section. Under it all your survey fields will be
listed with the first listed column to be exported (Excel A1) followed by
the rest (note that your column names many be truncated)
Cut the columns you want to move and paste them where you want them
Click save before exiting
When you perform your next export, the columns should be in the order you desire
In short:
I'm trying to filter an XSLTListViewWebPart based on what is selected in another XSLTListViewWebPart. Using a String field as connection this is working fine. Using a hyperlink field no data is displayed.
In more detail:
I have two lists, say Accounts and Projects. Both have a hyperlink field accountURL.
All accounts have different accountURLs. Different projects can have the same value for accountURL. Both are displayed on a page using the XSLTListViewWebPart.
The simple goal is to filter the Projects list based on which item is selected in the Accounts list using the accountURL field. So I established a web part connection using the acountURL as a filter. Alas, when an item in the Accounts list is selected no items are showwn in the Projects list although I double checked that there are matching values.
When using a string field instead of a hyperlink field for accountURL everything works like a charm. Problem is, I need the hyperlink field.
Is this desired behaviour? Do you have any suggestions for a workaround?
(I already tried converting the hyperlink field to a string field via a calculated column which did not work out either.)
All was and is to be done in the web interface or SP-Designer. Coding a WSP is not an option for this problem. As I'm not quite familiar with the correct terminus technicus I use field and column interchangeably.
All help is greatly appreciated.
Ben
Someone on the Microsoft forum suggested the following workaround which does its job well:
Add a hidden text column to both lists.
Use a workflow which is triggered on item creation and update to copy the value of the hyperlink column to the hidden text column.
Connect both webparts using the hidden column as filter.
Nonetheless, I still wonder whether it is possible to use hyperlink columns or other special columns for filtering. I also had the problem that I cannot use a person column as lookup.
Does anyone know if whether there ist some kind of overview
which column types can be used for filtering/formulas/lookup/...?
Cheers,
Ben
In my Infopath form I use a repeating table. On opening this form on sharepoint I would like to have some rows of the repeating table filled out using information from an other list. I use content types.
What i am working on is a Timesheet system where the user can register how many hours a week he worked on different projects.
I would like that by creation of a timesheet some predefined projects will be already inserted, meaning that the repeating table will have for example 5 rows already with 5 favourite or most used projects selected based on a separate PetProject list.
When I looked at the workflow in the list where the timesheet is being created I couldn’t find the column projectname in the dropdown so I cant give it a value. When I went to look in the Form settings of TimeSheets I saw that projectname cant be selected/edited, its in plain black whereas the other columns are blue and clickable. I thought its probably because the value of projectname is merged from the different rows in the repeating table.
Is there any way I can work around this problem and assign a value to projectname by creation of the timesheet?
Thank you so much!
I think that you will need to write some code to query the data that you are after and add the data to new rows in the repeating table.
There is a loading event that you can hook into to then query a secondary data source and then
add the row to the repeating table.
Will this run with in infopath as a thick client or will it run as a browser based form using infopath form service?