I am trying to allow the user to search on any of 4 criteria and have the rest of the 3 remaining field data validate based on the first search for selection.
I have four fields that I am trying to make dependent drop downs for the remaining 3 based on what you search for 1st. For example:
Scenario 1 - I search the data range validation for NAME and select a name in Cell L2.
I want the Phone, Email and Address to become dependent on the name was chosen (as there may be multiple records with the name of the person chosen).
I have accomplished this by using a secondary filter formula to filter address based on the name chosen and then applied data validation from the filter.
My problem is that I can't seem to figure out how to do the same thing if they pick the address first. Because my data validation is set on the filtered values and not the entire database. If they picked the address first, I want to validate based on ALL addresses and then filter-validate the NAME, PHONE and EMAIL.
I really just want them to be able to search whatever of the 4 criteria and then validate the other 3 on that result.
Any thoughts would help.
You can see my formula for filtering Addresses based on the Name selection in Cell S2 of the Customer Record Tab.
=if(L6="Address",filter('Sample Data'!$C:$C,'Sample Data'!$E:$E=L6),IF(L6="Phone",filter('Sample Data'!$C:$C,'Sample Data'!$D:$D=L3),IF(L6="Email",filter('Sample Data'!$C:$C,'Sample Data'!$J:$J=L4),L2)))
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1E7adi88aEgvdV4ao8unbMHgZLEyu5CCRdTOjv8thjtc/edit#gid=1427488050
Select Name and only the Phones, Emails and Addresses for that selected name can be selected.
Select the Address and only the Names, Phones and Emails for that Address can be selected.
Same for Phone and for Email
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I'm trying to create a drop down picker that shows a list of values, but actually stores a related value.
The list I'm working with looks like:
ID Desc
AA An option
AB Different option
B3 Some other option
So I want the user to see the description, but the value stored when they have picked one is the ID column.
I've search a lot but can only find either simple data validation or dymanic (Multiple dropdows based on a prior drop down)
My users won't remember the ID's, but by having the text descriptions they will find it easier.
Any help please?
Lots of searching for clues, but can only find either simple single column drop downs, or dynamic.
Lets say, you want to select description id D7 cell then want to show result from J Column as per ID of selected description. Then Try-
=XLOOKUP(XLOOKUP(D7,B2:B4,A2:A4),I2:I4,J2:J4)
In Google Sheets I have a column containing a list of available Serial Numbers (say, column A).
Somewhere else (say, column B) a user must choose the serial number used among those listed in column A; I use Data Validation with a drop-down list in order to prevent the user to use a non-existent serial number.
My goal is to allow the user only choose the remaining available serial numbers, by removing from the drop-down list all the serial numbers already used.
By using the FILTER function, combined with MATCH and ISNA, I am able to create a column of available serial numbers (say, column C). The function used is:
=FILTER(A2:A;ISNA(MATCH(A2:A;B2:B;0))).
Then I moved the Data Validation list of column B (where the user must select the serial number used) from column A (all serial numbers) to column C (filtered serial numbers). I also added the "Reject input" in the Data Validation form, so I can allow the user only to enter a value listed in column C.
It works, but all the previously entered serial numbers on column B have a small red triangle showing that data is not valid. Of course, this happens because all entered values are removed from the data validation list.
I could simply ignore the red triangles, but I don't like this solution that much, because it always looks like there's an error on the sheet, and when we will have many data inside it would be difficult to distinguish this problem from any others.
Is there a different way to solve?
Thanks
with formula only you can use:
=TRANSPOSE(FILTER(A2:A, NOT(COUNTIF(C3:C4, A2:A)), A2:A<>""))
=TRANSPOSE(FILTER(A2:A, NOT(COUNTIF({C2; C4}, A2:A)), A2:A<>""))
=TRANSPOSE(FILTER(A2:A, NOT(COUNTIF(C2:C3, A2:A)), A2:A<>""))
then hide columns and use validation:
where this is the result:
demo sheet
update:
1st fx:
=TRANSPOSE(FILTER(A2:A, NOT(COUNTIF(C3:C4, A2:A)), A2:A<>""))
2nd and every next fx:
=TRANSPOSE(FILTER(A$2:A, NOT(COUNTIF({
INDIRECT("C2:C"&ROW()-1); INDIRECT("C"&ROW()+1&":C")}, A$2:A)), A$2:A<>""))
I have a google sheet something with 3 columns Column Name , Tech Club Name , Tech Club Email id . I want to have column Tech Club Email id to have unique entries . If someone tries to enter a duplicate entry it should reject it with an error message of Entry already present .
I have this data validation rule:
forumula: =COUNTIF($C$2:$C10,$C2)<2
Instead of the formula whenever I enter duplicate entry in the column it doesn't reject the input it only gives warning on the previous input as shown below:
How can have a data validation rule which simply rejects user from entering the duplicate value ?
The cell range entered in the Data Validation Box should not be the whole column (which contains 1000 rows), but rather a more limited range. If you want to check between the C2 and C10 cells, I would suggest changing the cell range from:
Sheet1!C1:C1000
to:
Sheet1!C2:C10
although you can choose a wider range if you want, it just cannot be the whole column.
I had logged in as xelsysadm in oracle identity manager and created different users, then i tried to create custom validation for fields such as telephone number and last name, but i don't know where to specify the regular expression and in what way the regular expression is to be specified. I had activated the sandbox,customized it and from the options i chose structure(located at the top left corner) and selected the telephone number column which is to be custom validated, then chose the corresponding tag for the telephone number column from right-side, then various display options were displayed such as VALUE, PARTIAL TRIGGERS etc, but i don't know where to specify the regular expression for validation and in what way it is to be mentioned.
I specified the below tag in VALUE field, but the result was not the expected.
af:validateRegExp pattern="/^+(\d+\s?)+$/"
Where to specify and how to specify the regular expression?
I specified af:validateRegExp pattern="/^+(\d+\s?)+$/" in the value field but it is not working as expected.
af:validateRegExp pattern="/^+(\d+\s?)+$/"
I expect the result to be like, when in future on creating a new user there should be strict validation for telephone number field like there must be a '+' sign in the beginning followed by numerical digits.
I have two sheets: CONTACTS and UPDATES.
On the CONTACTS sheet there are 2 columns: COMPANY and NAME. If I have 10 contacts at a company, then there will be 10 rows with the same company in column 1, and the names of the 10 people in column 2. Now of course there's a lot of companies and names on this list.
On the UPDATES page, column 1 is a drop down that lets me select the name of the company. In column 2 I want to have a pull down that filters and shows me only the people in the company that's in column 1.
I've searched quite a bit and while I have found things that are similar, none of the tips are quite right / work for my use case.
Is there an easy way to do this?
Thanks for your help!
You can use UNIQUE + FILTER to filter the results, but that won't give you the a dropdown. For a filtered dropdown, you can use the formula to get the filtered list and then use that as your range.
For example, in your CONTACTS tab, add a new column FilteredList, with this formula in the first row:
=unique(filter(B:B,A:A=E1))
where B:B is the NAME column, A:A is the COMPANY column and E1 is where you select the company name on the UPDATES page.
Now, instead of making the NAMES list as your valid entries, set it to FilteredList.