Concatenate and Vlookup

Hi

I plan to use a category worksheet with Different Concatenate formulas to display products in different ways in a web store. I call up the Concatenate in the categories worksheet via a category number from the pricelist via Vlookup. This is okay.

One of the display formulas I have in the categories worksheet is

=CONCATENATE(p!D2,p!BM2,p!D2,p!BO2,p!D2,p!A2,p!D2,p!BS2,p!D2,p!B2,p!D2,p!BK2)
It shows "Eau De Toilette Spray by Carolina Herrera for Women"
Data taken from the pricelist.

The Above product is on Row 2.

I use the below in the pricelist to call the above Concatenate to give me the format I need for that item in the pricelist.
=(VLOOKUP(BQ2,'CATEGORY TABLE'!$A$1:$AH$4000,8,FALSE))
(bq2 is the lookup value as each Items belongs to a category)

How do I use the concatenate to display different products with the concatenate, Eg row's 3, 4, 5 are different items but it displays the same info as row 2 because I think it's taking the data already filled out in the formula that is on the category worksheet I use. Do I do a vlookup with the concatenate in the pricelist and don't use concatenate in the categories table like I have to then lookup the cell values. Or do I use the indirect function.

Any help would be muchly appreciated as my current spreadsheet is crashing my pc. Eg using nearly 3gb of ram due to 6 columns with about 3 dozen different variations of the above concatenate and many if formulas. On 10,000 rows.

Regards,
Aaron

Aaron

Can you put up a sample workbook that shows your structure and some data. Give an example of what you would like to return from that sample data.


rylo

Hi Rylo,

Thanks for getting back to Me.
I've uploaded a sample spreadsheet.

I have only put one category for the output as the file will be to large if I add
anymore than this.

If you look at the pricelist worksheet, you will see the correct data on Row 2.
Joop, next is Jazz on Row 3 but the data in the short name is the same as
row 2. The formula is okay, but the data is Row 2's.

I muchly appreciate your Help.

Regards,
Aaron

Thanks Nbvc.

Have upload as a Zip. Unfortunately it's in Excel 2000.

Regards,
Aaron

Hi Nbvc,

This is the problem I'm having,

In this instance Rows 1,2 and 3 in the pricelist worksheet, lookup row 1 which is category 1.

They all return the same result as I think because it’s pre filled out in the category Worksheet.

In the pricelist they should display

Row 1 Joop Cologne for men by Joop in a EDT Spray
Row 2 Jazz Cologne for men by Joop in a EDT Spray
Row 3 Opium Cologne for men by Joop in a EDT Spray

If a product were say on row 500 in the pricelist and it was selected as category 1. It should display the product name from row 500 in the pricelist using the formula from row 2 (cat 1) in the categories worksheet.

If a product was on row 200, 700 Etc and linked to category 2 which would be below Cat 1 they would use that concatenate formula Row 3 (cat 2), get the data from row 200 and 700 and output it in the pricelist on those rows
200 and 700 in Column D.

I don’t know if having the concatenate with vlookup in the pricelist and just the cells to range without the concatenate in the categories worksheet will work? Or an indirect?

I hope the above helps. I’ve read John Walkenbach’s excel formulas twice and tried to have the concatenate with the vlookup but keep getting formula errors.

Regards,
Aaron

Hi NBVC,

I've uploaded an updated spreadsheet with what is required to be output.
Basically the output format is correct. Eg taken from the categories table. The fixed part is, but not the name from Column A in the pricelist. If a product is on row 1000 and category 1 is selected, it needs to lookup cat 1 in the categories table, use the concatenate for that category and take the name in this example from row 1000.

What is happening at the moment is it's looking up cat one, which is on row 2, but because it's pointing to Pricelist A2 it's outputting that in all outputs.
Eg row 3, 4, 5 etc.

I'm lost with how to to have a vlookup and concatenate (indirect) together instead of vlookup on it's own looking up a pre-filled concatentate?

Someone suggested the below, but I havn't been able to grasp getting it to work.
http://www.excelforum.com/showthread.php?t=578236

You will probably need to concatenate the full path-range in a cell and then use VLookup(value,Indirect(cell),col-index,type)

Regards,
Aaron

Aaron

Still not making sense to me.

Can you forget about the formulas, and for all the data given, fill in the Category Table sheet completely manually, then explain what criteria was used to get the relevant data from the source.

As an example, you have 3 items for category 1. How / where on the output sheet should those 3 items be shown.


rylo