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    Question Inventory Related Help

    Hello,
    I am not entirely sure what im looking for to accomplish what i want to do, hence why im here. my problem is i have an ever changing inventory system it is 3 columns infinitely long. (column A,B,C) Column A is for Dates Column B is the name of the produce (many reoccurring names) and column C is for the SKU's of the product. what i want to be able to do is have a drop down list i can chose a name from and it will display all the SKU's that pertain to that specific item. so i have something like this:
    A | B | C
    8/1/1 |Item A |2090100
    8/1/1 |Item C |2180101
    8/1/1 |Item A |6090101

    i want a drop down menu i can chose from a range of item names and it puts the corresponding SKU's in a list, the first number of the SKU is irrelevant, the second,third and fourth numbers are what the item is(EX, Item A 090, Item C 180) but the list shows up as shown above. the dates don't matter for this list just the SKU pertaining to the selected item.

    thanks.

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    Re: Inventory Related Help

    Something like this?
    A
    B
    C
    D
    E
    F
    G
    1
    Date name SKU
    123
    Date name
    2
    1-Jan
    aa
    123
    1-Jan
    aa
    3
    2-Jan
    bb
    234
    3-Jan
    cc
    4
    3-Jan
    cc
    123
    5-Jan
    bb
    5
    4-Jan
    aa
    345
    7-Jan
    aa
    6
    5-Jan
    bb
    123
    7
    6-Jan
    cc
    234
    8
    7-Jan
    aa
    123
    9
    8-Jan
    bb
    345
    10
    9-Jan
    cc
    456

    E1= the SKU you want
    F2=IFERROR(INDEX(A:A,SMALL(IF($C$2:$C$10=$E$1,ROW($A$2:$A$10)),ROWS($A$1:A1))),"")
    ...confirmed by pressing CTRL+SHIFT+ENTER to activate the array, not just ENTER. You will know the array is active when you see curly braces { } appear around your formula. If you do not CTRL+SHIFT+ENTER you will get an error or a clearly incorrect answer.
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    Re: Inventory Related Help

    similar to what im looking for but not quite. take E1 make it a drop down to select a name then G column would be a list of the 7 digit SKU's that match the item. I have SKU's like this
    EX.
    0180106 <- for the skus the first number is not important to the search but still needs to be present, the 180 is the item that would be selected in the drop down list
    1180000
    3180005
    5090111 <- 090
    6090100
    0260007 <- 260
    4260002

    so when I chose "item A" from the drop down list every 7 digit SKU pertaining to "item A" should appear in a list taken from the master list of jumbled around SKUs.

    this is kind of what im looking for
    EX.

    cell E1...Column G
    Item A...0180106
    ............1180000
    ............3180005...ect

    sorry for the late reply (work) and thank you for posting. sorry im not very good with forums any more.
    Last edited by vennum6; 08-19-2016 at 05:01 PM.

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    Re: Inventory Related Help

    Hi,

    This may be possible with a Pivot Table but would need a copy of your de-sensitised raw data in order to test.

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    peterrc

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    Re: Inventory Related Help

    This solution uses three helper columns (K:M) which are hidden. The first two helper columns contain a list of the items and SKU's. The third helper column is populated using the formula:
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    Column I is then populated using a filtering array entered formula for versions of excel previous to 2010:
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    Re: Inventory Related Help

    Quote Originally Posted by vennum6 View Post
    similar to what im looking for but not quite. take E1 make it a drop down to select a name then G column would be a list of the 7 digit SKU's that match the item. I have SKU's like this...
    I suggest then that you

    upload a small (clean) sample workbook (not a pic) of what you are working with, and what your expected outcome would look like.

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    Re: Inventory Related Help

    So are your items like this? Or do you have a specific 3 digit number for item A and you want that to be in the drop down table instead.



    Date Item SKU Helper
    Date 180 0180106 =B2&"_"&countif($C$2:$C2,"*"&B2&"*")
    Date 180 1180000
    Date 180 3180005
    Date 090 5090111
    Date 090 6090100
    Date 260 0260007
    Date 260 4260002


    Either way, you need to list all of the 3 digit numbers in a separate row, so you can use data validation to make your drop down table. Once you have your list, we can proceed to the next step with a small sample size. Do you know how many matches your maximum amount of matches will be? Because you'd want the matching formula to be set up in the "max" amount of cells for your output. Do you want your list to go down or across? Are you opposed to having it more like:

    Sheet 2
    Criteria 1st Match 2nd Match 3rd Match 4th Match
    180 =IFERROR(INDEX(Sheet1!$C$2:$C$8,MATCH(Sheet2!$A2&"_"&COLUMNS(Sheet2!$B:B),$D$2:$D$8,0)),"")
    090
    260
    720

    or

    Sheet 2
    Criteria 180 090 260 720
    1st Match =IFERROR(INDEX(Sheet1!$C$2:$C$8,MATCH(Sheet2!B$1&"_"&ROWS(Sheet2!$B$2:$B2),$D$2:$D$8,0)),"")
    2nd Match
    3rd Match
    4th Match

    Because then you can see all of your data without having to go through a gigantic drop down menu depending on how large your data size is. A possibility of 1000 unique values to match against isn't something I'd want to scroll through. I await your answers, and hopefully a sample sheet.

    Hopefully my formulas are right, I just typed them out since no sample book to work with, too lazy to open excel. Logic provided by Pete_UK and adapted to this (he helped me with a similar problem).
    Last edited by TheN; 08-21-2016 at 01:47 AM.

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