Return unique values while ignoring blanks.

Clayton Richards
Clayton Richards ✭✭✭
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Hello!

I'm trying to find a function similar to vlookup or index that will return a unique value where there are duplicate search values. In this example, individuals book a desk on a given date. Since form submissions create a new row, the bookings flow in like this:

Sheet # 1

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My goal is now to collect these bookings on a separate sheet, this time organizing bookings by date. For example:

Sheet # 2

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Since there are multiple bookings on the same date, traditional vlookup functions, data mesh, and others I've tried do not seem to work. I last attempted this function that I borrowed from a google search to extract only unique values. Working only within the "Desk 1" column, for now. I replaced named ranges w/ column names here to help things make sense.

=IFERROR(INDEX({Sheet # 1 [Desk 1]}, MATCH(0, COUNTIF([email protected], IF({Sheet# 1 [Date]} =[email protected], {Sheet #1 [Desk # 1]},[email protected])), 0)), "ERROR")

This function returns "ERROR" every time. Any thoughts/improvements? Would SS Pivot accomplish this same task?

THANK YOU!

-Clay

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Hi @Tamar<\/a> <\/p>

I think this is happening becuase you are editing a range that exists in the original location. Instead of editing the range in the new location, be sure to delete the entire range and then click in the place where it was in the formula. Then choose another range. <\/p>

I hope that helps.<\/p>

Matt<\/p>"}]}},"status":{"statusID":3,"name":"Accepted","state":"closed","recordType":"discussion","recordSubType":"question"},"bookmarked":false,"unread":false,"category":{"categoryID":322,"name":"Formulas and Functions","url":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/categories\/formulas-and-functions","allowedDiscussionTypes":[]},"reactions":[{"tagID":3,"urlcode":"Promote","name":"Promote","class":"Positive","hasReacted":false,"reactionValue":5,"count":0},{"tagID":5,"urlcode":"Insightful","name":"Insightful","class":"Positive","hasReacted":false,"reactionValue":1,"count":0},{"tagID":11,"urlcode":"Up","name":"Vote Up","class":"Positive","hasReacted":false,"reactionValue":1,"count":0},{"tagID":13,"urlcode":"Awesome","name":"Awesome","class":"Positive","hasReacted":false,"reactionValue":1,"count":0}],"tags":[]},{"discussionID":107085,"type":"question","name":"Using INDEX\/MATCH to pull a date and CountIF not recognizing as a date","excerpt":"Hi, I'm using INDEX\/MATCH to pull a date from one report into another based on the same ID number. If there is no match, an error message populates. =IFERROR(INDEX({Corporate CAPA Closed Effective Date}, MATCH([InfoCard Number]@row, {Corporate CAPA Closed InfoCard Number}, 0)), \"CAPA Not Closed\") Once the formula is…","snippet":"Hi, I'm using INDEX\/MATCH to pull a date from one report into another based on the same ID number. If there is no match, an error message populates. =IFERROR(INDEX({Corporate CAPA…","categoryID":322,"dateInserted":"2023-06-29T15:11:26+00:00","dateUpdated":null,"dateLastComment":"2023-06-30T11:58:32+00:00","insertUserID":146974,"insertUser":{"userID":146974,"name":"Jack Parry","url":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/profile\/Jack%20Parry","photoUrl":"https:\/\/us.v-cdn.net\/6031209\/uploads\/defaultavatar\/nWRMFRX6I99I6.jpg","dateLastActive":"2023-06-29T20:28:15+00:00","banned":0,"punished":0,"private":false,"label":"✭✭"},"updateUserID":null,"lastUserID":45516,"lastUser":{"userID":45516,"name":"Paul Newcome","title":"","url":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/profile\/Paul%20Newcome","photoUrl":"https:\/\/us.v-cdn.net\/6031209\/uploads\/userpics\/082\/nQPUTVFKKWDJ2.jpg","dateLastActive":"2023-06-30T12:55:57+00:00","banned":0,"punished":0,"private":false,"label":"✭✭✭✭✭✭"},"pinned":false,"pinLocation":null,"closed":false,"sink":false,"countComments":3,"countViews":34,"score":null,"hot":3376179598,"url":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/discussion\/107085\/using-index-match-to-pull-a-date-and-countif-not-recognizing-as-a-date","canonicalUrl":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/discussion\/107085\/using-index-match-to-pull-a-date-and-countif-not-recognizing-as-a-date","format":"Rich","tagIDs":[254],"lastPost":{"discussionID":107085,"commentID":383295,"name":"Re: Using INDEX\/MATCH to pull a date and CountIF not recognizing as a date","url":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/discussion\/comment\/383295#Comment_383295","dateInserted":"2023-06-30T11:58:32+00:00","insertUserID":45516,"insertUser":{"userID":45516,"name":"Paul Newcome","title":"","url":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/profile\/Paul%20Newcome","photoUrl":"https:\/\/us.v-cdn.net\/6031209\/uploads\/userpics\/082\/nQPUTVFKKWDJ2.jpg","dateLastActive":"2023-06-30T12:55:57+00:00","banned":0,"punished":0,"private":false,"label":"✭✭✭✭✭✭"}},"breadcrumbs":[{"name":"Home","url":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/"},{"name":"Formulas and Functions","url":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/categories\/formulas-and-functions"}],"groupID":null,"statusID":3,"attributes":{"question":{"status":"accepted","dateAccepted":"2023-06-29T20:28:12+00:00","dateAnswered":"2023-06-29T17:10:07+00:00","acceptedAnswers":[{"commentID":383157,"body":"

The INDEX function should be retaining the data type (in this case date value). It sounds like the issue is that there is at least one blank or no-date value within the range. To accommodate that you would use:<\/p>


<\/p>

=COUNTIFS({All Sites CAPA}, CONTAINS(\"CAPA\", @cell), {All Sites CAPA Effective Date}, IFERROR(<\/strong>MONTH(@cell), 0)<\/strong> = 6, {All Sites CAPA Closed On Time?}, CONTAINS(\"CAPA Overdue\", @cell))<\/p>"}]}},"status":{"statusID":3,"name":"Accepted","state":"closed","recordType":"discussion","recordSubType":"question"},"bookmarked":false,"unread":false,"category":{"categoryID":322,"name":"Formulas and Functions","url":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/categories\/formulas-and-functions","allowedDiscussionTypes":[]},"reactions":[{"tagID":3,"urlcode":"Promote","name":"Promote","class":"Positive","hasReacted":false,"reactionValue":5,"count":0},{"tagID":5,"urlcode":"Insightful","name":"Insightful","class":"Positive","hasReacted":false,"reactionValue":1,"count":0},{"tagID":11,"urlcode":"Up","name":"Vote Up","class":"Positive","hasReacted":false,"reactionValue":1,"count":0},{"tagID":13,"urlcode":"Awesome","name":"Awesome","class":"Positive","hasReacted":false,"reactionValue":1,"count":0}],"tags":[{"tagID":254,"urlcode":"Formulas","name":"Formulas"}]},{"discussionID":107113,"type":"question","name":"How to return a BLANK if we have a BLANK cell using a COUNTIFS formula","excerpt":"This formula is currently working, and it is returning how many items are reviewed for each \"Project Lead\". The first part of the formula is basically saying that we would count them, as long as we have a \"Reviewer\" name added in the \"Reviewer\" column. =IFERROR(COUNTIFS(Reviewer:Reviewer, <>\"//m.santa-greenland.com/community/discussion/80365/\", [Project Lead]:[Project…","snippet":"This formula is currently working, and it is returning how many items are reviewed for each \"Project Lead\". The first part of the formula is basically saying that we would count…","categoryID":322,"dateInserted":"2023-06-29T22:39:31+00:00","dateUpdated":null,"dateLastComment":"2023-06-30T02:51:05+00:00","insertUserID":157974,"insertUser":{"userID":157974,"name":"Filippo","url":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/profile\/Filippo","photoUrl":"https:\/\/us.v-cdn.net\/6031209\/uploads\/defaultavatar\/nWRMFRX6I99I6.jpg","dateLastActive":"2023-06-30T13:16:54+00:00","banned":0,"punished":0,"private":false,"label":"✭✭"},"updateUserID":null,"lastUserID":157974,"lastUser":{"userID":157974,"name":"Filippo","url":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/profile\/Filippo","photoUrl":"https:\/\/us.v-cdn.net\/6031209\/uploads\/defaultavatar\/nWRMFRX6I99I6.jpg","dateLastActive":"2023-06-30T13:16:54+00:00","banned":0,"punished":0,"private":false,"label":"✭✭"},"pinned":false,"pinLocation":null,"closed":false,"sink":false,"countComments":2,"countViews":25,"score":null,"hot":3376173036,"url":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/discussion\/107113\/how-to-return-a-blank-if-we-have-a-blank-cell-using-a-countifs-formula","canonicalUrl":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/discussion\/107113\/how-to-return-a-blank-if-we-have-a-blank-cell-using-a-countifs-formula","format":"Rich","lastPost":{"discussionID":107113,"commentID":383252,"name":"Re: How to return a BLANK if we have a BLANK cell using a COUNTIFS formula","url":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/discussion\/comment\/383252#Comment_383252","dateInserted":"2023-06-30T02:51:05+00:00","insertUserID":157974,"insertUser":{"userID":157974,"name":"Filippo","url":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/profile\/Filippo","photoUrl":"https:\/\/us.v-cdn.net\/6031209\/uploads\/defaultavatar\/nWRMFRX6I99I6.jpg","dateLastActive":"2023-06-30T13:16:54+00:00","banned":0,"punished":0,"private":false,"label":"✭✭"}},"breadcrumbs":[{"name":"Home","url":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/"},{"name":"Formulas and Functions","url":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/categories\/formulas-and-functions"}],"groupID":null,"statusID":3,"attributes":{"question":{"status":"accepted","dateAccepted":"2023-06-30T02:51:53+00:00","dateAnswered":"2023-06-29T22:55:01+00:00","acceptedAnswers":[{"commentID":383233,"body":"

@Filippo<\/a>, the most inelegant but dead simple thing to do is this:<\/p>

=IF(IFERROR(COUNTIFS(Reviewer:Reviewer, <>\"//m.santa-greenland.com/community/discussion/80365/\", [Project Lead]:[Project Lead], [Project Lead]@row), \"//m.santa-greenland.com/community/discussion/80365/\")<\/strong>=0, \"//m.santa-greenland.com/community/discussion/80365/\", IFERROR(COUNTIFS(Reviewer:Reviewer, <>\"//m.santa-greenland.com/community/discussion/80365/\", [Project Lead]:[Project Lead], [Project Lead]@row), \"//m.santa-greenland.com/community/discussion/80365/\")<\/strong>)<\/p>

Simplified, it's just this:<\/p>

=IF(<your formula> = 0, \"//m.santa-greenland.com/community/discussion/80365/\", <your formula>)<\/p>"},{"commentID":383252,"body":"

Very clever Lucas! Simple IF statement logic. It works perfectly, thanks!!!<\/p>"}]}},"status":{"statusID":3,"name":"Accepted","state":"closed","recordType":"discussion","recordSubType":"question"},"bookmarked":false,"unread":false,"category":{"categoryID":322,"name":"Formulas and Functions","url":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/categories\/formulas-and-functions","allowedDiscussionTypes":[]},"reactions":[{"tagID":3,"urlcode":"Promote","name":"Promote","class":"Positive","hasReacted":false,"reactionValue":5,"count":0},{"tagID":5,"urlcode":"Insightful","name":"Insightful","class":"Positive","hasReacted":false,"reactionValue":1,"count":0},{"tagID":11,"urlcode":"Up","name":"Vote Up","class":"Positive","hasReacted":false,"reactionValue":1,"count":0},{"tagID":13,"urlcode":"Awesome","name":"Awesome","class":"Positive","hasReacted":false,"reactionValue":1,"count":0}],"tags":[]}],"initialPaging":{"nextURL":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/api\/v2\/discussions?page=2&categoryID=322&includeChildCategories=1&type%5B0%5D=Question&excludeHiddenCategories=1&sort=-hot&limit=3&expand%5B0%5D=all&expand%5B1%5D=-body&expand%5B2%5D=insertUser&expand%5B3%5D=lastUser&status=accepted","prevURL":null,"currentPage":1,"total":10000,"limit":3},"title":"Trending in Formulas and Functions ","subtitle":null,"description":null,"noCheckboxes":true,"containerOptions":[],"discussionOptions":[]}">

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