I am trying to create a table of dynamic range that takes data from another sheet. The short story is that I need to do this because Alteryx will drop an old existing sheet of the same name when uploading new data each time that it is ran.
I am filling up a template from a pivot table formed from this table that takes the raw data (4 sheets total).
The Problem: The problem I have is with the Raw Data and the Table sheets. The Table Sheet needs to mimic the exact data of the Raw Data Sheet, but in table form. So there are two things to consider: the size of the raw data, and the actual data itself.
How might one do this?
And before I answer redundant questions:
Why don't you make a table on the raw data sheet? Because the sheet gets dropped each time Alteryx runs and will not save that there once existed a table there
Just say the cell references the other cell/ size references the size Yes, I get this, but I am making things dynamic on the table sheet
Make a giant table to take any size data range and map the expected columns also did this but if I told my college professor I did this as a professional analyst I would get slapped on the wrists
If you are using Excel 2016 or later, you can create a "Pivot Table":
And choose where to place it, for example in another worksheet:
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I have an .xlsx with a pivot table but not the Access database that it links to. However, I believe all of the "raw" data underlying the pivot table is in the cache somewhere within the spreadsheet. My end goal is to create a CSV with the raw data. The issue with double-clicking the 'totals' row is that I'm limited to 2^20 (~ a million) rows, and the data has around 8 million. I'm currently manually filtering on a specific field foo in the pivot table then double-clicking the totals rows for each value of foo. Is there a more elegant way to do this?
As far as I know, it's not possible to save data directly from the PivotCache into a CSV. Looks like you'll have to dump the data from Access.
I'm creating templates reports to be filled by Apache-Poi.
I made some graph reports using named ranges, without problems. So, I don't need to know the amount of rows to graph it.
I have my presentation sheet separately from my data sheet (so I can hide the data sheet).
How can I have a table in the presentation sheet created from the data of the data sheet?
For instance, with my application I fill the table in the data sheet having 3 rows, I want to have a formatted table in the presentation sheet (with filters) populated with those 3 rows in the data sheet. And then if I fill the data sheet with 9 rows, well, you get the point. Any idea?
Edited: I'm working in an Export to Excel functionality for an application. What I do is to use an excel file as a report template, then with Apache POI, I clone the file, populate it with the report data, and then serve this file to be downloaded by the client browser.
I only fill the data in the Data sheet with Apache POI. Now, on the other reports, with my graphs on the presentation sheet, I don't have to do anything more than complete the data table (because I'm using named ranges).
I'm adding some screenshots with dummy data in order to explain a little more.
-- Data Sheet --
-- Presentation Sheet -- (what I want to achieve)
Ugh,
I'm not a hero when it comes to Excel...
I have an Excel file with one sheet that contains all data. It's basically a list of tickets, displaying the ticket ID, type, value and 5 dates per row.
I'm looking for a way to have new sheets in the Excel that actually display only tickets of a specific type. So on the sheet Bug Tickets I want to diplay like a filtered sub-set of the raw data in the first sheet.
However, this new sheet needs to refresh it's data automatically when I add new data to the main list.
Is this possible in Excel?
Ok here is a way using a Pivot Tables and Tables.
You should set it up like below: (in the SS, I put the pivot in the same sheet but you can put it in another).
Steps:
You need to create a table out of your data. See here on how to do it.
Then create a Pivot Table out of your table. See here on how to do it
After that you just need to format it the way you want.
The Pivot table will update everytime you add data on your table.
It will display what you've filtered.(in my example I filtered type A).
Notice: Apologies I cannot create a step by step procedure for you(very tedious). I wouldn't have posted this as answer if only it would fit as comment.
I have an Excel 2010 workbook with two SQL queries each returning data to a separate worksheet as a named table. They return the same db fields, but one is constrained on the values of one of the fields. I have additional columns using formulas to transform these field data, and these are also identical between worksheets.
Upon refresh, Excel autofills the formulae per the conventions of a named table. One of the sheets/tables--call it Table 1-- autofills with native references (e.g., for a field/column named variable, the corresponding formula uses [#[variable]] as its reference. However, the other table--call it Table 2--autofills with references to Table 1, i.e., 'Table 1'[#[variable]].
I have searched and replaced these several times, and rewritten the formulae, but each time I refresh the data query these references pop up. I searched to replace Table 1 with Table 2, as it occurred to me this may be a namespace collision and Excel just takes the first-created table as canon. This, though, doesn't fix the issue, nor did changing the column names to create a non-colliding namespace.
The only other thing I can think is that I'd copied the formulas from Table 1 and even though I removed the table name perhaps Excel has held onto the reference. Is there a table cache or such that Excel references to keep pulling these? Should I create a new query and new table and manually create the formulae, or would that run into the same issue?
[Entering this as an answer so it's not shown as an outstanding question.]
Creating the relevant tables from scratch results in no such namespace collision nor any wonkiness thus far, as we'd expect. I realized that I'd left something out of my initial question: I had copied, in whole or part (likely whole), the tab containing Table 1 to create Table 2. Even editing the resulting new SQL query and the formulae on Table 2, it seems Excel--in its effort to help--recalls several components of the table and does not update this cached information.
I have a database of data in excel that I want to copy and paste (link) to a new sheet where I can manipulate the data to a more readable form. However, the database does not have a set number of cells and updates regularly (the reason why it needs to be linked). The database changes size on a daily basis either shrinking or expanding. Is there a way to link the database even though it need to be a dynamic range?
I have a similar situation for one of my reports where I don't want to mess with the live data. All I do is create the link by going to the new sheet and typing something like =iferror(C:\USER\Database.xlsx\sheet1!A1," ") and fill across all the way and down all the way. The iferror checks for data and if there is no data inserts a space. That is how you can overcome the dynamic columns and with issues. The new spreadsheet will then be linked to the raw data set and you can manipulate it as needed.