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Data organisation puzzle - creating a bespoke list from 3 criteria - read from a single set of data
Morning All!
A "nearly Merry Xmas" to all members 🙂
I am seeking a little help, please. I have a set of data that identifies "Employees", their "Department" and their delegated financial "Authority". When a Department seeks to spend some money, it is necessary for someone with adequate (i.e. more than the spend value) financial Authority to approve the spend.
So; taking the inputs "Department" and "spend value", I wish to output a list of "Employees". Easy, you say - and I agree; however, to make this more complicated, I am trying to achieve this in a single cell that takes Department and spend value from other cells on the same row - each row of the worksheet is an individual Spend Request and there are hundreds. In addition, there are 2 types of spend to account for (procurement and change), for which Employees have separate levels of Authority (typically 100% and 20% - but this is not a certainty, so Employees have 2 values of Authority).
Method; once the Department (list) is selected, a type of spend identified (procure or change) and a spend value is input, the "Authority" cell needs to offer the user only those options that are applicable.
To give an idea of the data (although not to the scale I need to action), please see the attached.
I would like to thank you for reading this and in advance for any useful solutions that are offered.
Regards, David.
It should be possible to do this using the FILTER function, but for some reason I couldn't get it to work.
So here is a solution using VBA which should work in all (desktop) versions of Excel. You'll have to allow macros when you open the workbook.
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It should be possible to do this using the FILTER function, but for some reason I couldn't get it to work.
So here is a solution using VBA which should work in all (desktop) versions of Excel. You'll have to allow macros when you open the workbook.