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    Formula for Calculating Total Time

    Good Day,

    I found an excel tool on-line and kind of formatted it to suit an analysis that we want to to asses the time it takes to do specific task. That part was done but now my manager wants me to be able to pull the weekly totals from the productivity analysis workbook to the other weekly analysis workbook. Now I am not that good in excel and was wondering if there is a formula that can be used to automatically pull the information from one sheet to another. I have attached a workbooks for your review I had to separate them as the excel file was to large so one is a picture and the other is an excel file.

    PRODUCTIVITY ANALYSIS wk2.xls

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    Re: Formula for Calculating Total Time

    Hello
    The formula will depend on whether you need to consolidate the times per employee or just transfer the values from the one sheet to the other sheet. Is each employee assigned a specific task or can different people do same tasks ?

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    Re: Formula for Calculating Total Time

    The total time, total working hours, total discrepancies and total work is what needs to be compiled in the second workbook from the first workbook. Each employee do the same task but at different times or days, they would be each given their own workbook to save for each month, hopes this helps to explain it.

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    Re: Formula for Calculating Total Time

    Hello
    So would there be 1 summary and many employee workbooks OR each workbook has a summary and the employees records?

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    Re: Formula for Calculating Total Time

    Each workbook would have a summary of the employees records.

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    Re: Formula for Calculating Total Time

    Hello

    Now in your 4 columns (total time, total working hours, total discrepancies and total work) please check my logic and if that is correct
    • total time = time as entered in the other sheet
    • total working hours = number of workdays in the week * 8 hours per day ?
    • total discrepancies = difference between total working time and total time
    • total work = some measure of output, perhaps as entered in the other sheet

    Then we are almost ready for the formula

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    Re: Formula for Calculating Total Time

    [LIST=1][*]Total Time = to the sum total time spent completing application for the week or month[*]Total Working hours = the same as above, the sum total amount of time on task like Application[*]Total discrepancies= the total sum of time spent completing a task in a given week or month[*]Total working hours = the total sum for the week or month

    So lets say in a given week or month an employee completed the task Applications at least ten times, what I want the formula to pull is the total time, total hours total discrepancies, total working hours and completing that specific task.

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    Re: Formula for Calculating Total Time

    PRODUCTIVITY ANALYSIS wk2.xlsx

    Hello
    Thanks for the formula. I am still missing some information (and your attached picture was similar to the summary sheet but it had different columns, so I am not sure where that fits in) but nevertheless have put something together. So I have only added limited calculations.

    The basis of the formula uses SUMIFS which really sums all values in a range, based on 1 or more criteria. There seems to be some issues with using sumif / countif formula across sheets, so I added extra columns on your detailed sheets to work out the values and then transferred this to the summary sheet. There are ways around this using SUMPRODUCT but I will need to understand the details of the issue and why other formula are needed to 'wrap' - before recommending such.

    If you change the employee, the respective values are displayed.

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    Re: Formula for Calculating Total Time

    Hello again
    I got the sumproduct formula to work, so here it the same without the extra columns.

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    Re: Formula for Calculating Total Time

    Thank you I would review it an let you know, sorry for all the mix up and the back and forth.

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    Re: Formula for Calculating Total Time

    Thank you I would review it an let you know, sorry for all the mix up and the back and forth. I looked at the formulas and maybe you are still a bit confused. let me tray and explain again.

    I had to post the workbooks separately because it was too big, it is actually on document. On workbook 1 which is a monthly sheet, outlines the task to be completed by an employee for a given month, each employee can do the same task nay not necessarily at the same time. What I want to be able to do on workbook 2 is calculate a weekly analysis of the the total task done per week.

    So lets say that in workbook 1 during week one for example April 1, 2013 to April 5, 2013 the employee completed a task (applications) three times, In workbook 2 the weekly analysis I want be able to calculate the total time spent in that week to complete that one specific task (applications), as stated each employee would be given separate work books to use.

    Hope this helps.

    Thanks for all you help though.
    Cheril Ann

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