Need an if/then function from one sheet to another.

[DyneD]

Hello everyone,

I'm working on a spreadsheet for employee scheduling. I currently have two sheets, one for the people at their places, and another for what days and what shift they work.

Is there any way I can make a formula that looks at names of the people at their jobs, and then puts a value into a second sheet where their name is.

So the first sheet has the days of the week horizontally, and the 3 shifts vertically.

The second sheet has the days of the week horizontally, and the names vertically.

I want to be able to type a persons name into the first chart for a day, and have it put 8-1st, 8-2nd, or 8-3rd into the second sheet, under the appropriate person.


Thanks

Dyne

[DyneD]

Here's an example of the scheduler. If I type in an employees name into the "schedule" worksheet, I'd like 8-1st, 8-2nd, or 8-3rd to pop up in the "Matrix" tab, on the appropriate day for that person.

Thanks

Dyne

[FDibbins]

Hi and welcome to the forum

without seeing what you are working with, this is an untested guess, but try playing around with either vlookup() or index/match/match.

If you still have a problem, i would suggest you upload a sample work book, (all sensitive data removed), showing what data you are working with, a few examples of what your expected outcome is, and how you arrived at that
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[DyneD]

Thanks for the help, here's an example of the workbook and its two sheets.

Dyne

Test.xls

[FDibbins]

Thanks for the file, but could you please include a few examples of what your expected outcould would be (manually entered if need be), as well as how you arrived at that

[DyneD]

So an example of what I'm looking for is if I enter "John Smith" into the intersection of "Tuesday" and "1500-2330" on the Schedule worksheet, I will get an 8-2nd on the Matrix worksheet at the intersection of "John Smith" and "Tuesday".

Even better would be if I could have a dropdown list of all the employees at each intersection on the Schedule worksheet, which would then put the appropriate shift into the Matrix worksheet.


Thanks,

Dyne