I've been trying to create a couple of drop down lists that are dependent on data in a pivot table. Basically,it related to a raw materials in a drop down list as parent and the child list is a list of all batch numbers relating to that raw material.
I've used this contextures blog as a base and managed to get it work, if I edit the sample sheet and change the pivot data to my data source but if I do it an a new sheet of my own design, it doesn't work. It's something to do with the relative cell reference names. There's a note on the sheet that reads - "Note that the StateNo and StateCityNo range names only work in Sheet1. They use relative references to read the value of the state from the cell to the left of the active cell. If you want to use the data validation drop-downs in a different Sheet, you would need to create a new set of range names specific to that Sheet." I'm not sure what this means or what I need to change in my external sheet. The cell it references in the Name Manager seems to change when I change the drop down options.
[blog.contextures.com/archives/2010/03/31/dependent-data-validation-from-pivot-tables]
Apologies for the vagueness. I'll do my best to answer any questions and try upload my sheet later. I'm using Excel 2013 too.
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