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Multi-dependent dropdown lists
- itaroledSep 01, 2022Copper ContributorNikolinoDE
I used a combination of your attachment and mathetes attachment to help solve the problem of creating the multidependent dropdowns so thank you both once again! I have one more issue arising however.
I will need this series of dropdowns to occur roughly 15-20 times in a given sheet, and each series will need to be independent of eachother. Is there a way to copy and paste these throughout a sheet without needing to rewrite their filters, validations, and formulas manually?
Thanks!- mathetesSep 01, 2022Silver Contributor
Is it safe to assume this reply of yours to NikolinoDE supersedes the private message you sent me? That, in other words, you've answered the question you were asking me?
It would be helpful to me (and I suspect to NikolinoDE as well) if you could attach a copy of your existing solution with an example or two of those additional sets of multi-dependent drop-downs. That way we could work with what you have. You probably will have to do it again as a private message to each of us.
In the absence of that, not seeing how you've done it, my gut tells me that you might want to set up a table with the names of the various drop-downs and their relationships, and then use VLOOKUP to retrieve the name or reference to the appropriate list, embedding that in an INDIRECT. BUT I hasten to add, this is just a gut sense of what might work.
I'm giving an example of that VLOOKUP nested in an INDIRECT in cell I8 of the attached spreadsheet. This gets results, in this case from one of two tables of discounts. It can easily be extended.This doesn't have the multi-variable drop down, but using this method in conjunction with whatever you've already done may serve to get the result you want. Oh, this is also important: you need to make use of named ranges. If you're not familiar with named ranges, here's a good reference.
- itaroledSep 03, 2022Copper ContributorYou should both now have my copy in your inbox! Before redoing it with your suggestions here, I wanted to let you see it as it was with the dropdown lists working (on the relative intensity sheet), with the only problem being the ability to duplicate and create multiple dropdown list series. Let me know if you think the same suggestion applies now that you have seen it, thanks!
- itaroledSep 01, 2022Copper ContributorI will give it a shot and let you know NikolinoDE
thank you!