I am having some issues with specifying a dynamic cell range for a "data validation".
I'm aware you can do some tricky stuff with = "Projections!M4:M"&O2. You can update the content of cell O2 for example to 3 and the output would be Projections!M4:M3.
This makes the value "dynamic". These tricks don't seem to work in the "Cell Range:" input field in the Data Validation selection/configuration screen.
My problem is, I hate seeing drop down arrows (call me o.c.d) for rows that have no content, my number of rows will grow in the future so I don't have any other option than selecting M4:Mfills the whole 1002 rows with drop down arrows.
Has anyone worked out a trick to make dropdown arrows only show up for rows that are filled?
I'm using = COUNTA(B4:B)to get the number of rows that are filled and = "Projections!M4:M"&O2 to make the desired Projections!M4:MX string but the "Cell Range" input field in the Data validation screen doesn't accept this as valid either.
Well I didn't find a direct solution, but something that I can work with to resolve my issue which was I hate seeing drop down arrows for empty rows.
I turned a filter on for a column that will always be filled in and filtered by conditions Cell is not empty but i'd prefer a better solution.
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I've two fields on account form, one is two option(checkbox) and other is text box. As par my requirements, I've to not show the label of the checkbox but show them as simple fields without caption. I am done with it but stuck in a problem that it create a huge space between two fields, as shown in following screenshot. I would like to hear from your side to resolve this problem.
You could try this:
Set the tab to two columns, settings the first column around 5-10% (experiment with the value)
put the checkboxes in the first section, the other fields in the second one
set the first section to have 1 pixels for label width (instead of default 115)
I'm not sure how it would turn out, and would probably need some tweaking (to account for different form/window widths) but you might accomplish something close to what you need.
Another approach would be to build a custom HTML webresource, put it in an IFRAME as the only form element, and rebuild the form from scratch as you like... but it's probably best left as a last-est resort
You can convert the section from 2 columns to 4 columns, span the textbox field to 3 columns. This will reduce the checkbox field columns to 25% and textbox to 75%
This is the maximum we can do in supported way.
I'm trying to use the filter() formula within a spreadsheet, from another tab within that spreadsheet.
I've got a number of drop-down menus that, when used, bring up the relevant data from the table I'm filtering from.
I've managed to make it work when it's a table of data from row 2 downwards (row 1 being a header row), but now the table starts from the 6th row down with other information above it (most of it, however, is blank). As such, now all of the options come up automatically when the drop down menus are blank.
I either need the formula below to start from the 6th row down, or to ignore the blank cells. It must be an easy solution but for the life of me, I can't find it anywhere on the internet (I'm pretty new with spreadsheet formulas so please be gentle).
This is the formula I've been using that works when there are no blank rows:
=FILTER(Sheet2!A:T,(Sheet2!D:D=B12)+(Sheet2!F:F=C12)+(Sheet2!G:G=D12)+(Sheet2!H:H=E12)+(Sheet2!I:I=F12)+(Sheet2!N:N=G12)+(Sheet2!O:O=H12)+(Sheet2!T:T=I12))
If it helps, the drop-down options are both numbers and text, and I'm using Google Sheets rather than Excel.
You can probably just change your ranges to 'A6:T' instead of 'A:T'. 'A:A' range syntax gets all rows in that column. 'A6:A' will start it at 6 but not define an ending row, which I think is what you want.
This is your formula with those small changes:
=FILTER(Sheet2!A6:T,(Sheet2!D6:D=B12)+(Sheet2!F6:F=C12)+(Sheet2!G6:G=D12)+(Sheet2!H6:H=E12)+(Sheet2!I6:I=F12)+(Sheet2!N6:N=G12)+(Sheet2!O6:O=H12)+(Sheet2!T6:T=I12))
The =isBlank() formula may be useful to you as well. It takes a cell reference and returns true/false. You can wrap this in NOT() to give the opposite result, i.e =NOT(ISBLANK(A1)) will return true if there is a value.
my problem is maybe simple but i don't get it.
i have this Crosstab :
So my idea is to hide all rows where ALL data fields ("Wert_Bezeichnung") are empty. But this is not possible easy if i get it right, because the birt renderer thinks the rows are never be empty because the left two columns ("Position" and "Bezeichnung") are never be empty. that are the row names.
Is it possible to hide the rows without touching the java code behind?
thanks in advance
As you describe the issue, it seems these empty rows are generated by the dataset itself. Double-check if property "Show empty rows" of this crosstab is unchecked.
Anyway, you should just have to add a dataset filter with an expression excluding empty rows.
Edit the main dataset of your datacube
In "Filters" tab, add a new condition
select field "Wert_Bezeichnung" and operator "Is not null"
If it doesn't work, it means these rows are loaded with something different than a null value, for example an empty string. You need to adjust the dataset filter accordingly.
I'm in great need of help. I've a form which asks basic questions and puts the results into rows of an existing spreadsheet.
Specific data from those responses are "promoted" to 2nd, 3rd and 4th tabs based on IF formulas on tabs 2+ checking the value of a pull down selection on in the corresponding row on each previous tab. (Waterfall)
My challenge is - forms data is inserted into a new row (Does not use existing) and if I set the pulldown value to "Approved" on the first tab, the formulas on the second tab which were contiguous now skip the row where the form data was automatically entered.
I suspect I need to learn how to properly use ArrayFormula, etc, but have not managed to fix this looking at existing examples combined with my IF statements.
Help is appreciated. Sample is here. Safe to ignore the first and last tabs.
Thank you.
You can try using an open-ended range with ArrayFormula. For example, the formula on "2-Pipeline" in cell D3 could be:
=arrayformula(IF('1-IdeasReceived'!U2:U="Approved",'1-IdeasReceived'!L2:L, ))
The ranges U2:U and L2:L should pick up all rows in those columns, even after you've had forms submitted.
Since this is an ArrayFormula over column ranges, you only need it in cell D3; it will inject CONTINUE formulas down the rest of the column.
Warning: Your spreadsheet is combining dynamic row content (e.g. pulled from another sheet) with static content (e.g. "Environment, Health & Safety" column on "2-Pipeline" sheet). This is bound to result in misalignment if rows are added or deleted in the middle of the source data.
I have a column in a Google spreadsheet with data validation, that makes a drop down menu available when editing existing rows. Occasionally though contributors create new rows at the bottom of the doc and this validation is lost.
I would like to keep this validatation in the column even in newly created rows (excluding the header row).
I have seen much of this discussion throughout stackoverflow and google help forums, but still cannot find a clear answer.
My hunch is that this would involve Google Apps Acript using an onEdit trigger and then either paint formatting or a combination of the confusing class DataValidationBuilder. (https://developers.google.com/apps-script/reference/spreadsheet/data-validation-builder) but I'm not sure beyond that.
While not necessarily elegant I found the following to work:
create your validation on the entire column
once that's done click the cell(s) that represent the heading, select data / validation, and then click on 'remove validation' on that single cell.
This way any newly inserted rows will inherit the validation set up on the entire column and you don't have to always be reminded that your heading isn't a valid value.
onEdit trigger which uses Range.getDataValidation() and Range.setDataValidation() to copy the rule from an existing row to the new row
While in the data validation dialog screen you can manually enter the range as "Sheet1!A:A" to apply the formula to all of column A.
This also includes new rows added afterwards
I'm not sure if this is a new feature but this worked. Set the validation as list from interval and interval as:
'sheet'!C2:C
This includes all new rows excluding title(first row)