Sep 08 2020 01:05 PM
Hey, I am working on a school project and I would like to know if what I want to create is even possible in Excel.
I have a simple table with employees, hours and salary. What I want to know if is it possible to just provide Excel with a date and hour and it would automatically count how many hours an employee had worked, select shift by itself and count the salary according to selected shift and money rate? I know just some basics from my statistics course at college and I am not sure if Excel (or myself perhaps) could do it.
I have uploaded my sheet so anyone can see what I mean. I am thankful for every reply.
Sep 08 2020 06:00 PM
Solution
You've said it's a school project and you want to know if what you want to create is even possible in Excel. Right?
The answer to that question is "Yes, it is possible."
It probably would take a bit more explanation of what you want to do, but Excel is very good at that kind of thing. So since it's a project for school, have at it. I'll point you in the direction of the many functions that enable one to look things up from a table. And I'd suggest searching (probably on Google) for how those work.... there are in Excel several ways to accomplish it.
Or were you expecting somebody here to do your homework for you?
Sep 08 2020 10:30 PM
@mathetes No, not at all, sir, I want to do it myself, but I didn't know if Excel was even capable of doing it. I'll try my best to do it with the help of Google. Thank you very much for your reply!
Sep 10 2020 12:43 PM
@mathetes Sir, I have managed to create almost my whole table. I only have a problem with Shift H, which starts at 17:00 on Friday and ends at 6:00 on Monday. Could you please provide me with some help with column L? I know I need to add =IF(C2="Friday" then do this, if not, do that, but I can't get it to work.
Sep 11 2020 06:28 AM - edited Sep 11 2020 06:29 AM
What you've done is impressive. Instead of giving you the answer, I want to give you a few other pointers.
So let me turn it back to you now, with those pointers, and see if you can resolve your weekend issue.
Sep 11 2020 06:32 AM
@mathetes Thank you very, very much. I couldn't get clues like that in Google, that's why I asked you, sir. I will try to implement those functions over the weekend and I'll get back to you when I manage to make it work.
Sep 11 2020 07:34 AM
Here's a great website for help with Excel functions. https://exceljet.net/
I recommend also looking at examples on that site for the functions WORKDAYS, VLOOKUP, XLOOKUP, as well as the ones I included in my sample.
Sep 12 2020 05:11 AM
@mathetes Thank you, sir. I have used the functions you provided, as well as I got help from exceljet. In cell Q13 I have created a function which gives H or 0, depending on the number of day from WEEKDAY and hour. I have then created a new sheet with 31 days of this function. Then, for every shift in K, L, M, N I entered IF statement, which depending on the outcome of the function in new sheet either counts the number of hours in each shift or just gives 0,00 and continues.
It works to a point in which two shifts collide with each other. When it is Friday >=17:00 up until Monday <=06:00 it works really good, however, when an employee works for example Monday 04:00 until Monday 12:00 it gives 6hrs in K, 0,08hrs in H, and loses the rest of the time. Did I overdid it to a point where it just simply can't work or is it fixable?
I am really grateful for your help, if I am abusing your free time please just let me know.
Also, it is difficult for me to explain what I did and what I mean because English is not my main language, therefore I am sorry if you can't understand me clearly.
Sep 12 2020 06:21 AM - edited Sep 12 2020 06:27 AM
You are explaining yourself very well in English.
You might (this is a guess on my part) benefit from the IFS function...take a look at it on exceljet. It sometimes is easier than nesting IF within IF within IF.
I will not be able to take a close look until much later today, I'm afraid. I had wondered about that matter of crossing shift boundaries, but it did seem as if you had it resolved in your earlier version. So keep working....I'll look later, but maybe you will be able to do it on your own. That's always more satisfying.
Sep 12 2020 01:18 PM
I'd suggest to start from day one. Shifts could be defined as
in final version format Shift Star/End as time to hide years.
Into the main table I added two helper columns (S and T)
not to complicate main formula, but mainly to clean confusing records as start on Sun 22:00 and end on Sun 03:00.
Formulas here
Start:
=MOD(B3-1,7)+1+MOD(E3,1)
End:
=MOD(B3-1,7)+1+MOD(I3,1)+IF(MOD(I3,1)<MOD(E3,1),1,0)
payment is calculated as
=SUMPRODUCT(
IF( (S3>ShiftStart)*(T3<ShiftEnd),(T3-S3)*Rate*24,
(S3>ShiftStart)*
(S3 <ShiftEnd)*
(IF( ShiftEnd<=T3,ShiftEnd,T3) - S3)*Rate*24+
(T3>=ShiftStart)*
(T3<=ShiftEnd)*
(T3-IF(ShiftStart>=S3,ShiftStart,S3))*Rate*24
)
)
Here ShiftStart, ShiftEnd and Rate are named columns in helper range with shifts.
As a cosmetic comment to previous formulas, it's not necessary to use formulas as
=CHOOSE(C3,"Monday","Tuesday","Wednesday","Thursday","Friday","Saturday","Sunday")
to return weekday name, it's enough to apply dddd custom format to date.
Sep 13 2020 03:51 AM
@Sergei Baklan Sir, thank you for your time and help.
This cleans everything up for sure, however I still cannot make it work when shift H and D collide with each other..
In row 3 for instance if an employee starts work Sun 22:30, and ends work Mon 06:30, the outcome of working hours is correct - 8hrs, but neither my (with great help of @mathetes ) formula, nor yours work correctly. The sum product of these hours should be: 7.5hrs in shift H, 0.5hrs in shift D, multiplied by defined rates should give: 2992$. The same goes for Sun 23:30 - Mon 07:00.
Do I need to add more rows with defined hours to the sheet H for example :
Sun 22:30 | Mon 06:30 |
Sun 23:00 | Mon 07:00 |
Sun 23:30 | Mon 07:30 |
and index them with letters for example H1, H2, H3 and if that shift occurs the SUMPRODUCT would count it?
Sep 13 2020 07:11 AM
Yes, that was missed. I added the condition if both TiimeStart and TimeEnd are outside the hours:
=SUMPRODUCT(
IF( (S3>ShiftStart)*(T3<ShiftEnd),(T3-S3)*Rate*24,
IF( (S3<=ShiftStart)*(T3>=ShiftEnd),(ShiftEnd-ShiftStart)*Rate*24,
(S3>ShiftStart)*
(S3 <ShiftEnd)*
(IF( ShiftEnd<=T3,ShiftEnd,T3) - S3)*Rate*24+
(T3>=ShiftStart)*
(T3<=ShiftEnd)*
(T3-IF(ShiftStart>=S3,ShiftStart,S3))*Rate*24
)
)
)
Please check in attached file.
Sep 13 2020 12:43 PM
With you, I appreciate that @Sergei Baklan has, from all appearances, been able to resolve all of your functional issues.
I still want to puzzle through some of this to make sure I understand the use of MOD and SUMPRODUCT in this connection. I'm sure anything I would have come up with would have been more rudimentary, but at least I would have been able to explain it.
Thanks for a most interesting problem!
Sep 13 2020 01:33 PM - edited Sep 13 2020 03:28 PM
@mathetes , @Sergei Baklan I would really like to thank both of you for the help you have provided me with. A week ago I didn't know more than SUM and AVERAGE in Excel, now I am more aware of its powers and it made me sign up for a course so I can fully understand this great piece of software. Perhaps one day I could help someone here who might be in a position like I was these couple days ago. Once again, great thank you for the help, I appreciate it very much and I wish all the best for you.
Sep 14 2020 01:47 AM
@mathetes , the idea behind is that dates are integers and start from Jan 01, 1900 which is Sunday. With MOD(date, 7) we move any date into this first week and work with datetime only within it. MOD(time,0) is to be more safe, to be sure we have only time, not time plus one-two dates in case of incorrect entry.
SUMPRODUCT checks if start/end time is within time range for defined datetime, or our of the range, or one of the is in the middle and depends on that takes the difference.
Sep 14 2020 01:49 AM
@mikim1kolaj , you are welcome, glad to help. Excel is infinite, good luck on the way of improving your skills in it - that's never ended process.
Sep 08 2020 06:00 PM
Solution
You've said it's a school project and you want to know if what you want to create is even possible in Excel. Right?
The answer to that question is "Yes, it is possible."
It probably would take a bit more explanation of what you want to do, but Excel is very good at that kind of thing. So since it's a project for school, have at it. I'll point you in the direction of the many functions that enable one to look things up from a table. And I'd suggest searching (probably on Google) for how those work.... there are in Excel several ways to accomplish it.
Or were you expecting somebody here to do your homework for you?