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Need some help with my Vlookup or a new idee
Hi
I have a table of 16087 rows and 7 columns. and im strugling with similer names in column A and Vlookup that picks the first hit.
This is a dogbreed that have dogs with simple names and i want to pick right father/mother combinations based on age and probability to puppies.
Now i have these lookups in place
=VLOOKUP(D2;$A$2:$B$9;2;FALSE) "Father"
=VLOOKUP(F2;$A$2:$B$9;2;FALSE) "mother"
I have there names but i like to also add Reg nr
my table looks like this and are sorted on "Born" the date the puppies where born :
| Name | Reg_Name | Reg_Father | Father | Reg_Mother | Mother | Born |
| Father one | IS00000/00 | #N/A | not known | #N/A | not known | 12.06.1986 |
| Mother one | IS00 | #N/A | not known | #N/A | not known | 12.06.1987 |
| Father two | IS00000/01 | IS00000/00 | Father one | #N/A | not known | 24.06.1988 |
| Father one | IS0001/12 | IS00000/00 | Father one | IS00 | mother one | 01.01.2012 |
| Mother two | IS0001/13 | IS00000/01 | Father two | IS00 | mother one | 01.02.2013 |
| puppy 1 | VIH 155 | IS00000/00 | Father one | IS0001/13 | mother two | 01.04.2015 |
| puppy 2 | VIH 156 | IS00000/00 | Father one | IS0001/13 | mother two | 01.04.2015 |
| puppy 3 | VIH 157 | IS00000/00 | Father one | IS0001/13 | mother two | 01.04.2015 |
what i want is to pick the right "father_one" with the age nearest to the puppies but still older than the puppies (and with a age differanse less than 14 years had been nice to have)
Is there any functions i can combine to get this to work?
What i want is to find the "Reg_Father" and "Reg_mother" based on their name, this are values that are in the Reg_name column before the puppies are born, the problem is when at father or mother has the same name as one of their forfathers then Vlookup picks the first occurrence of that name. I want it to pick the last occurrence before the puppies was born not the first and not the last because it may appear later in the list aswell.
so to sum it up i want:
- mother and father reg nr
- closest to puppies born date
- but not after they have been born
- based on mother/fathers name
br
Jimmy
Hi Jimmy,
I was not able to convert your text back to Excel sheet from my browser, at least for reasonable time. Here is the sample which illustrates the idea
Entire formula to find Reg No is
=INDEX($C$3:$C$10,MATCH(AGGREGATE(14,6,1/($B$3:$B$10=$F$3)/($G$3>$D$3:$D$10)*$D$3:$D$10,1),$D$3:$D$10,0))
Here AGGREGATE find the largest date in Date column for which Name=a
($B$3:$B$10=$F$3)
and date is less than Born
($G$3>$D$3:$D$10)
You may add here more criteria if needed.
MATCH find position of that date in Date column and INDEX returns Reg No for that position.
Please see attached.
Hi Jimmy,
I was not able to convert your text back to Excel sheet from my browser, at least for reasonable time. Here is the sample which illustrates the idea
Entire formula to find Reg No is
=INDEX($C$3:$C$10,MATCH(AGGREGATE(14,6,1/($B$3:$B$10=$F$3)/($G$3>$D$3:$D$10)*$D$3:$D$10,1),$D$3:$D$10,0))
Here AGGREGATE find the largest date in Date column for which Name=a
($B$3:$B$10=$F$3)
and date is less than Born
($G$3>$D$3:$D$10)
You may add here more criteria if needed.
MATCH find position of that date in Date column and INDEX returns Reg No for that position.
Please see attached.
Thank you for a good solution but it works only if there are just one dog with the same birthdate as father/mother dog if there are more than one dog with taht birthdate then it returns the first "REG" number and not the actuale regnr of the dog.
this are my formulas now:
=INDEX($B$2:$B$16088;MATCH(AGGREGATE(14;6;1/($A$2:$A$16088=$D2)/($G2>$G$2:$G$16088)*$G$2:$G$16088;1);$G$2:$G$16088;0))
=INDEX($B$2:$B$16088;MATCH(AGGREGATE(14;6;1/($A$2:$A$16088=$F2)/($G2>$G$2:$G$16088)*$G$2:$G$16088;1);$G$2:$G$16088;0))But i have scaled it down a little in the excel sheet that i have uploaded here so you can see my dilemma
Name Reg_Name Reg_Father Father Reg_Mother Mother Born Father one IS00000/00 #NUM! not known #NUM! not known 12.06.1986 mother one IS00 #NUM! not known #NUM! not known 12.06.1987 Father two IS00000/01 IS00000/00 Father one #NUM! not known 24.06.1988 Father two IS0001/12 IS00000/00 Father one #NUM! not known 01.01.2012 Father one IS0002/12 IS00000/00 Father one IS00 mother one 01.01.2012 mother two IS0001/13 IS0001/12 Father two IS00 mother one 01.02.2013 puppy 1 VIH 155 IS0001/12 Father one IS0001/13 mother two 01.04.2015 puppy 2 VIH 156 IS0001/12 Father one IS0001/13 mother two 01.04.2015 puppy 3 VIH 157 IS0001/12 Father one IS0001/13 mother two 01.04.2015 puppy 4 VIH 158 IS0001/12 Father one IS0001/13 mother two 01.04.2015 as you see here it actually picks the reg nr for "Father two" even it is the "father one" who is the criteria
Can i solv this in a way? Else the formula works good much better than what i had before.
br
Jimmy
Hi Jim,
I din't took into account you have a lot of puppies born at the same date. Adjusted formula is
=IFERROR(INDEX($B$2:$B$11,MATCH(1,INDEX((AGGREGATE(14,6,1/($A$2:$A$11=$D2)/($G2>$G$2:$G$11)*$G$2:$G$11,1)=$G$2:$G$11)*($D2=$A$2:$A$11),0,1),0)), "no match")
Please see attached
If I understand your issue correctly, you have an issue with the VLOOKUP Function discriminating between duplicate or similar names. Try making a new column an Concatenate the Name and the Date in question. Something like "Smokey_1965" and then use the VLOOKUP Function on the new column. Hope this works :-)
