is there anything i can do to further improve performance of this formula ?
=IF($A3<>"",IF(Jan!$E6<>"",LET(d_patt,IF(Jan!$E6<>"",VLOOKUP(Jan!$E6,SETTINGS!$A$12:$B$27,2,FALSE)&IF(Jan!$B6<>"",Jan!$B6,0)&IF(Jan!$C6<>"",Jan!$C6,0)&IF(Jan!$D6<>"",Jan!$D6,0),""),"ROT"&IF(LEN(Teams!$BHR4)>0,MID(Teams!$BHR4,MOD(NETWORKDAYS.INTL(Teams!$C4,I$2,"0000000")-1,LEN(Teams!$BHR4)/3)*3+1,3),"000")&IF(LEFT(d_patt,3)="OVT",d_patt,"OVT000")&IF(LEFT(d_patt,3)="SSI",d_patt,"SSI000")&IF(LEFT(d_patt,3)="SSO",d_patt,"SSO000")&IF(LEFT(d_patt,3)="SDS",d_patt,"SDS000")&IF(LEFT(d_patt,3)="HOL",d_patt,"HOL000")&IF(LEFT(d_patt,3)="LID",d_patt,"LID000")&IF(LEFT(d_patt,3)="UNP",d_patt,"UNP000")&IF(LEFT(d_patt,3)="FLD",d_patt,"FLD000")&IF(LEFT(d_patt,3)="MAT",d_patt,"MAT000")&IF(LEFT(d_patt,3)="LIS",d_patt,"LIS000")&IF(LEFT(d_patt,3)="CBR",d_patt,"CBR000")&IF(LEFT(d_patt,3)="ABS",d_patt,"ABS000")),"ROT"&IF(LEN(Teams!$BHR4)>0,MID(Teams!$BHR4,MOD(NETWORKDAYS.INTL(Teams!$C4,I$2,"0000000")-1,LEN(Teams!$BHR4)/3)*3+1,3),"000")&"OVT000SSI000SSO000SDS000HOL000LID000UNP000FLD000MAT000LIS000CBR000ABS000"),"")
i have this on a sheet for each day of the year x 400 people so 146k+ times. this is therefor taken up 80% of the sheet load time.
The sheet basically gets shift patters from Teams, check if there is any holidays, overtime etc from the relevant month tab and relevant cell for the day, and then will generate a code like below.
ROT080OVT000SSI000SSO000SDS234HOL000LID000UNP000FLD000MAT000LIS000CBR000ABS000
i have so far managed to make this faster by using the LET function, but not show if its possible to make any further improvements.
if you need an example file i can send this or upload somewhere, not sure if that is possible via stackoverflow or a preferred site to upload to.
Thanks
The following is a shortened version of your formula to reduce the complexity of computations.
Instead of building the 'OVT000SSI000...' string one piece after another while always checking if the first 3 characters of 'd_patt' match the current piece, we can set the whole string with '000's as default and only replace the section that matches 'd_patt' (see highlighted elements in screenshot below)
Which results in the full formula:
=IF(LEN($A3)>0,"ROT"&IF(LEN(Teams!$BHR4)>0,MID(Teams!$BHR4,MOD(NETWORKDAYS.INTL(Teams!$C4,I$2,"0000000")-1,LEN(Teams!$BHR4)/3)*3+1,3),"000")&LET(default,"OVT000SSI000SSO000SDS000HOL000LID000UNP000FLD000MAT000LIS000CBR000ABS000",d_patt,VLOOKUP(Jan!$E6,SETTINGS!$A$12:$B$27,2,FALSE)&IF(LEN(Jan!$B6)>0,Jan!$B6,0)&IF(LEN(Jan!$C6)>0,Jan!$C6,0)&IF(LEN(Jan!$D6)>0,Jan!$D6,0),IF(LEN(d_patt)>0,REPLACE(default,SEARCH(LEFT(d_patt,3),default),6,d_patt),default)),“”)
If $B6, $C6 and $D6 can only be either empty or a numerical number, in other words, if they are never a letter or special character, the 'd_patt' function can be further shortened as follows:
Which results in the full formula:
=IF(LEN($A3)>0,"ROT"&IF(LEN(Teams!$BHR4)>0,MID(Teams!$BHR4,MOD(NETWORKDAYS.INTL(Teams!$C4,I$2,"0000000")-1,LEN(Teams!$BHR4)/3)*3+1,3),"000")&LET(default,"OVT000SSI000SSO000SDS000HOL000LID000UNP000FLD000MAT000LIS000CBR000ABS000",d_patt,VLOOKUP(Jan!$E6,SETTINGS!$A$12:$B$27,2,FALSE)&(Jan!$B6+0)&(Jan!$C6+0)&(Jan!$D6+0),IF(LEN(d_patt)>0,REPLACE(default,SEARCH(LEFT(d_patt,3),default),6,d_patt),default)),“”)
I am working on a log system for a machine shop and each part has a part number. I am creating an excel spreadsheet to account for the time of checkout, bin location, part #, and check out quantity. I have worked out the kinks to add a time stamp but I am still having issues with figuring out how to auto-populate the part numbers and the quantity of parts checked out (i.e. I checked out 20 ball bearings, part #-50000; check out quantity-20)
I have already done the time stamp using circular reference. My first attempt was trying to use Consolidate and I attempted to do the check out quantity using a COUNTIFS formula.
[Countifs formula][1]
=COUNTIFS(C:C, C2)
I got excel to count the number of parts scanned with the same part #, but when I use the consolidate feature and the statement below pops up. I am unsure what it means. Is there any easier way to scan 20 parts with the same part number so the check out system is similar to a grocery checkout?
I'm managing the server awards for a gaming community and using Google Forms for the first time. The voting phase ended, I moved the form responses into an excel sheet in Google Docs.
It goes like this (Answers from 89 forum accounts [ROWS] for 31 questions [COLUMNS])
(https://i.imgur.com/w9ICMjv.png)
The nominations were put as multiple-choice votes in the Forms as can be seen here, if this helps at all.
(https://i.imgur.com/4OQxiKH.png)
Most of the attempts I've read on the internet read back to integer values, whereas I'm using strings. Plus, I really have no idea how to work formulas on Excel.
I need the results to be like this, if possible.
Name One —> Most repeated name in Column C, from Row 2 to Row 30.
(47) —> Amount of times Name One is repeated in Column C.
Name Two and Three show us the second and third most repeated names.
(https://i.imgur.com/EkocuoG.png)
If you are using Google Sheets
To get your top three in column C, add this formula into another sheet.
=QUERY('Your sheet name'!A1:Z100,
// Change the sheet name and the last cell reference to suit.
// Keep the single quotes around the sheet name if it has a
// space or a non-alphanumeric character in it.
"Select C, count(C) group by C order by count(C) desc limit 3")
Thanks to #pnuts's answer on another question for allowing me to double check without turning on my laptop. :)
Have tested it and it's working for me.
I have a long list of products (+20,000 items) of surgical instruments. Sometimes I receive requests for different names of these products which is impossible to manually match in my list.
I was thinking of a formula to find or suggest the closest result of match for the common words in each cell.
I have created this formula:
=INDEX('Products'!G:G,MATCH((("*"&LEFT(A2,5),'Products'!G:G,0))
(where Products G:G refers to my long list.
it gave some results correctly but more than 80% of the result came back with false results.
please see the attached image to show you the result.
is there is a way I can get more accurate result?
or I was thinking of finding major category of each item such as:
Category 1: Scissors, Retractors, Knives, etc.
Category 2: Straight, Curved, Angeled, etc.
Category 3: Sharp, Blunt, etc.
Category 4: 10mm, 130mm, 24cm, etc. (size)
which is easy for me to do it.
then use the same formula but with referring to the common words..
something like:
=INDEX(Products!G:G,MATCH("*"&LEFT(E2,5)&"*"&F2&"*"&G2&"*",Products!G:G,0))
where E2, F2, G2 refers to the categories..
I tried but it gave false results as well.
I urge you in the strongest sense of the word to spend some time creating a good quality master table and then spinning off 1 table for each category.
make use of clean(), trim(), proper(), heck, if you need to copy the data in notepad++ and enable view all symbols then switch between ansi utf utf8 wtf omgwtf or any other encoding to ensure you dont have any hidden special characters than do it.
you have 4 categories, so that's 4 1 column tables. name them. no duplicates. no trash. no junk. sort your data. nice clean names/words/whatever you categorize by. if you absolutely must add an index or key column then go ahead but do yourself a favor and stop there. use a different table to deepen your relationships.
next step is to to create comboboxes. i'm not sure why but the combobox in excel is not the same combobox in the vba editor. you want the one in the editor. you can make a fancy user form or you can make a minimalist text box design. whatever you fancy. just make sure the combobox has a field for RowSource in the properties. for whatever reason i don't get that option if i am not in the vba editor when i create the box.
you're almost gauratneed to want drawmodal = false on every user form you make for these boxes
you probably really don't need more than 4 boxes but it depends what you're doing so that's up to you. name your combo boxes.
verify each box has: matchentry = 1-fmMatchEntryComplete
i recommend: style = 0 - fmStyleDropDownCombo
this will allow you to begin typing and autocomplete the first match and also let you select from a drop down list, starting with the the first match of the name you've typed.
you can set the number of elements in the list. default is 8. if you have a slow computer than i wouldn't push it much. if you have a best then give it a shot.
you can also change fonts for easier reading and a bunch of other format changes.
now the this is the most important part - RowSource will be one of those 4 tables
now that i've given instructions, let me explain why. some businesses don't have the best practices and i'm currently with one that's using an oracle erp solution for data management but the front end isn't used. data entry is done in excel and loaded into oracle using batches. lookups in oracle continue to be a psychological barrier for the ap/ar teams so i did exactly what i suggested here but took it a few steps farther.
i pulled the vendor master and i pulled teh customer master
i cleaned the data and compiles simple pure clean 1 column tables
then i created a form for the comboboxes
first came ap with vendor name
then vendor number
then vendor remittance location
our orderering facility number
selecting a vendor name populates the vendor number box with the possible vendor numbers. same for remittance location and ordering facility
i pulled a year's worth of transaction data and created a gl table. some vendors have only ever used 1 gl acount. some several. there's a % number next to each gl. that represents the value of transactions posted from that vendor to that gl for the last year.
next up a date picker and text boxes for invoice fields.
get it nice and tight on a form, set the tab stops, add a commit button and all of a sudden we have a front end excel platform that performs better than oracle - because people use
i haven't finished the ar side but it'll get done and i'll the angels will be rejoicing and singing my name for years to come.
1:1 matching with autofill and drop down functionality you can't beat it. that's what you get with my suggestion.
best of luck!
I am using Really Simple Traffic Logger to store Date, Timestamp, IP and visited site by users on my website. Each user visiting the website is assigned a UID by a parameter in the URL in the form of:
http://www.domain.com/site.php?=dTM_c1_uid7
dTM = customer,
c1 = category 1,
uid7 = uid for person 7
The csv file stored contains the following:
"DATE","TIME","IP","LOOKING_FOR"
"2016-05-22","07:30:40","XX.XX.XX.XX","/site.php?=dTM_c1_uid7"
"2016-05-22","07:31:10","XX.XX.XX.XX","/site.php?=dTM_c1_uid7"
"2016-05-22","07:31:19","XX.XX.XX.XX","/site.php?=dTM_c1_uid8"
the information is stored in a CSV-file, where I am attempting to sum the results of the data, which is to be visualized by another script in real-time. However, as many of the visitors are the same people visiting the website more than once, I would like to remove these based on the UID parameter in the URL, before calculating the sum, so each count (hit) can be calculated as unique hits.
I am therefore trying to work out a formula for auto-removing duplicates that contains the "_uid7" parameter, before calculating the sum.
Is there a smart method for constructing a formula in excel that can do that automatically?
Thank you.
Supposing your data starts from A1 Please post the following formula in B1and fill down the column B with data in column A
=TRIM(SUBSTITUTE(MID(A1,(SEARCH("dTM_c1_",A1,1)+7),99),CHAR(34),REPT(CHAR(32),99)))
You will get uid7, uid8 etc which can be counted or other processing can be done.
EDIT
Based on your comments and taking "dTM_c1_uidnn.." string counts of occurrence is shown in the following snapshots. I have shown two snap shots out of which one hides the helper column.
This is the best I could do at the moment. Column B can be filtered either with Excel native Remove Duplicates OR by a VBA routine. Finding unique values of numerical values is comparatively easy using Frequency Function But somehow after repeated attempts despite following some tutorials, I could not get the desired results for text strings. I would appreciate your feedback positive or negative. My efforts would continue to find the most optimal solution.