How can I properly implement range.find text partial match search? - excel

I am unable to get the Range.find method from office-js to work with a particular column that may or may not have a different word in it. For example I am using the following variations of a column name: "total rent" or "total unit rent".
I am currently configuring the range.find method with the following arguments:
range.find("total rent", {
completeMatch: false,
matchCase: false,
searchDirection: "Forward",
});
The expected result is that whenever this search comes across "total unit rent" it should satisfy a partial match and return the range info. However it keeps crashing for me and I am unsure as to how to go about solving this issue. The docs don't give much way as to how flexible this method call is or if this particular scenario is covered for partial matches.

This is an unclarity in the documentation. To be a partial match, the cell value must begin with the exact string that is passed as the first parameter. So 'total rent charged' is a partial match of 'total rent'; but 'total unit rent' is not a partial match of 'total rent'. I will get the documentation clarified.

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Wild card is not working for extracting status in excel

Below is my table, I want to extract status starting with "QATs" but the formula is not working.
CRM,QATsPending
PRM,QATSInprogress
CRM,QATsOnHold
CRM,QATsCompleted,Screen
My formula is working
=IF(G2="*Pending*", "QATsPending", IF(G2="*Completed*","QATsCompleted", IF(G2="*O2InProgress*", "QATsInProgress", "QATsOnHold")))
It is giving on QATsOnHold as output.
Your ELSE (, "QATsOnHold")))) is triggered for everything as no values in your Table actually EQUAL anything you are trying to match
You are also putting the value to match and the value to return in the wrong order.
It should be Match, Return, e.g. =IF(G2="QATsPending", "Pending"... not =IF(G2="Pending", "QATsPending"
Your code:
=IF(G2="Pending", "QATsPending", IF(G2="Completed","QATsCompleted", IF(G2="O2InProgress", "QATsInProgress", "QATsOnHold")))
Should be:
=IF(G2="QATsPending", "Pending", IF(G2="QATsCompleted","Completed", IF(G2="QATsInProgress", "O2InProgress", "QATsOnHold")))
But looking at your Table.. might actually be:
=IF(G2="QATsPending PRM", "Pending", IF(G2="QATsCompleted","Completed", IF(G2="QATSInprogress CRM", "O2InProgress", "QATsOnHold")))

Search the best match comparing prefixes

I have the numbers codes and text codes like in table1 below. And I have the numbers to search like in table2
for which I want to get the best match for a prefix of minimun length of 3 comparing from left to rigth and show as answer the corresponding TEXT CODE.
If there is an exact match, that would be the answer.
If there is no any value that has at least 3 length prefix then answer would be "not found".
I show some comments explaining the conditions applied in answer expected for each Number to search next to table2.
My current attempt shows the exact matches, but I'm not sure how to compare the values to search for the other conditions, when there is no exact match.
ncode = ["88271","1893","107728","4482","3527","71290","404","5081","7129","33751","3","40489","107724"]
tcode = ["RI","NE","JH","XT","LF","NE","RI","XT","QS","XT","YU","WE","RP"]
tosearch = ["50923","712902","404","10772"]
out = []
out.append([])
out.append([])
for code in tosearch:
for nc in ncode:
if code == nc:
indexOfMatched = ncode.index(nc)
out[0].append(nc)
out[1].append(tcode[indexOfMatched])
>>> out
[['404'], ['RI']]
The expected output would be
out = [
['50923', '712902', '404', '10772'],
['NOT FOUND', 'NE', 'RI', 'JH' ]
]
A simple solution you might consider would be the fuzzy-match library. It compares strings and calculates a similarity score. It really shines with strings rather than numbers, but it could easily be applied to find similar results in your prefix numbers.
Check out fuzzy-match here.
Here is a well written fuzzy-match tutorial.

OR Formula in Word document not returning a value

I am working on a document where I need to be able to test multiple options in an if statement to see if one of them are true to decide if a paragraph displays on the document. I have been trying to figure out why my OR formula is not returning a value for me to test and I am not sure why it is not showing anything when it is updating.
I have inserted a field and added a formula within that field that I am hoping will work with my If statement to show the proper paragraph contens.
When I use an Or statement, even one as simple as { OR(1=1) } and update and toggle the field I get no result. From what I have read I should get a 1 or a 0, but I don't seem to get either of these results. The line just ends up blank. When I test it with my If formula it always shows the false result, even when the Or contains a true result.
The formula I am currently working with is:
{ IF{ OR("$event.eventType.name}" = "Birthday", "$event.eventType.name}" =
"Conference" } "Yes" "No" }
If I update and toggle the Or field it shows blank, no result either true or false, and makes the If formula show as false event on results where it should show true. As I mentioned above I even tried setting it to 1=1 and still could not get it to show as true. Not sure if there is something I am missing in working with the formula.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
It's not clear from your post what $event.eventType.name is. Presumably it's a field generated by an Addin. In that case, you should be able to use something like:
{IF{={IF{$event.eventType.name}= "Birthday" 1 0}+{IF{$event.eventType.name}= "Conference" 1 0}# 0}> 0 "Yes" "No"}
or:
{={IF{$event.eventType.name}= "Birthday" 1 0}+{IF{$event.eventType.name}= "Conference" 1 0} \# "'Yes',,'No'"}
Note: The field brace pairs (i.e. '{ }') for the above example are all created in the document itself, via Ctrl-F9 (Cmd-F9 on a Mac); you can't simply type them or copy & paste them from this message. Nor is it practical to add them via any of the standard Word dialogues. The spaces represented in the field constructions are all required. If your fields are a kind of mergefield, you'll need to insert 'MERGEFIELD ' at the start of each one, thus:
{MERGEFIELD $event.eventType.name}

Cognos query calculation - how to obtain a null/blank value?

I have a query calculation that should throw me either a value (if conditions are met) or a blank/null value.
The code is in the following form:
if([attribute] > 3)
then ('value')
else ('')
At the moment the only way I could find to obtain the result is the use of '' (i.e. an empty character string), but this a value as well, so when I subsequently count the number of distinct values in another query I struggle to get the correct number (the empty string should be removed from the count, if found).
I can get the result with the following code:
if (attribute='') in ([first_query].[attribute]))
then (count(distinct(attribute)-1)
else (count(distinct(attribute))
How to avoid the double calculation in all later queries involving the count of attribute?
I use this Cognos function:
nullif(1, 1)
I found out that this can be managed using the case when function:
case
when ([attribute] > 3)
then ('value')
end
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Perfect for what I needed (and not as well documented on the web as the opposite case, i.e. dealing with null cases that should be zero).

Datatables, match portion of text

I followed the example on DataTables website, but I can't get my filtering field to find what I want.
Let's say I have these strings:
This is a text
This is another text
Text here
Both global and column search, when searching for "text" (case-insensitive), return string 3 only. Why?
This is my code for the search function, almost the same as the examples:
$('#datatable').DataTable()
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