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    Count days of week based on dates and specific text

    Hi all,

    I'm not sure if this is something that Excel will be able to help me with, but thought I would post and ask if anyone has any ideas.
    I work for an organisation where we rent out rooms for people to stay in. There are different charges depending on the day of the week (weekday, Saturday, Sunday, Public Holiday) and people set up a certain number of these types of night to begin with for, say, 12 months. We need to know when taking a booking how many of each night type they have left.
    What I want is to integrate a counting mechanism with our booking system, which looks something like this:

    25/06/2018 26/06/2018 27/06/2018 28/06/2018 29/06/2018 30/06/2018 1/07/2018
    Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday

    Bedroom 1 Jane Jane Jane Jane Jane Jane Jane
    Bedroom 2 Tom Tom Tom Bob Bob Bob Bob
    Bedroom 3 Alice Alice Alice Alice


    And I want Excel to count and collate the various day types for each person.

    Total Weekdays Weekdays Used Total Saturdays Saturdays Used Total Sundays Sundays Used Total Public Holidays Public Holidays Used
    Jane 20 5 10 1 10 1 2 0
    Tom 10 3 10 0 10 0 5 0
    Bob 35 2 5 1 5 1 1 0
    Alice 20 2 2 1 2 1 1 0

    I am happy to have multiple sheets (eg. if I need a list of Public Holiday dates), but it probably wouldn't be viable to have a sheet per user as it we have 100+ clients and always having more.


    Any assistance would be much appreciated!

    Thanks,
    Erin

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    Re: Count days of week based on dates and specific text

    You would be better attaching a sample workbook showing sample data and expected output.

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    Re: Count days of week based on dates and specific text

    Sorry, the formatting didn't work the way I thought it would. Attached is a sample workbook with this data.

    Thanks
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    Re: Count days of week based on dates and specific text

    It would be easier if you collected and collated the booking data in a normalised format (i.e. one row per booking) and then generated both 'user views' from that data.

    Normalised data would look like this:

    Excel 2016 (Windows) 32 bit
    A
    B
    C
    D
    1
    Date Day Room Client
    2
    25/06/2018
    Monday Bedroom 1 Jane
    3
    25/06/2018
    Monday Bedroom 2 Tom
    4
    26/06/2018
    Tuesday Bedroom 1 Jane
    5
    26/06/2018
    Tuesday Bedroom 2 Tom
    6
    27/06/2018
    Wednesday Bedroom 1 Jane
    7
    27/06/2018
    Wednesday Bedroom 2 Tom
    8
    28/06/2018
    Thursday Bedroom 1 Jane
    9
    28/06/2018
    Thursday Bedroom 2 Bob
    10
    28/06/2018
    Thursday Bedroom 3 Alice
    11
    29/06/2018
    Friday Bedroom 1 Jane
    12
    29/06/2018
    Friday Bedroom 2 Bob
    13
    29/06/2018
    Friday Bedroom 3 Alice
    14
    30/06/2018
    Saturday Bedroom 1 Jane
    15
    30/06/2018
    Saturday Bedroom 2 Bob
    16
    30/06/2018
    Saturday Bedroom 3 Alice
    17
    01/07/2018
    Sunday Bedroom 1 Jane
    18
    01/07/2018
    Sunday Bedroom 2 Bob
    19
    01/07/2018
    Sunday Bedroom 3 Alice
    Sheet: Sheet3

    Then it's just a case of using the COUNTIFS function to extract the information you need.
    Last edited by AliGW; 06-20-2018 at 01:17 AM.
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    Re: Count days of week based on dates and specific text

    Hi,

    Thanks for your reply. I'm a little confused about how I would be able to generate this data. Are you able to provide me with an example or a function?

    Thanks
    Erin

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    Re: Count days of week based on dates and specific text

    I think you may have misunderstood.

    You are making the mistake many do when starting out with Excel: in your file, you are gathering together your data in a format that is easy to read and interpret. That's not the optimum way to do it.

    You should start by collecting the data in the format I have shown you - that's your raw data, what is input manually by your data monkey. From that data, you generate the various user-friendly views and analyses of that data that you wish to have. Does this make any more sense?

    I don't have time to show you how to build the two tables in your attachment at the moment as I am just about to go out to work, but I am sure someone else here will run with it.

    If you already have a lot of data, it can easily be transformed into what you see above using Power Query, which is what I used on your data. Once transformed, you would add the data to your database using this collection table going forward.
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