Merging data

Sheet1 contains a list of course codes and the dates the courses are running
eg.
CSB00 09-Jan-2006
CSB00 10-Jan-2006
CSB01 09-Jan-2006
CSB02 10-Jan-2006

Sheet2 contains a list of students and the courses assigned to the students
eg.
James CSB00 Dep1
Jones CSB00 Dept1
Sam CSB00 Dept2
John CSB00 Dept2
(Data in different cells for name, course, Dept)
Please a macro or VB to assign students (max say 2 per course date) to
course dates and distribute across department ie one fron Dept1 and the other
from Dept2. Please make it as general as possible as I wish to apply to a
large database

Thanks in advance
--
JA

Hi
Your input is clear but what do you want your output to look like? You
say

"Please a macro or VB to assign students (max say 2 per course date) to

course dates and distribute across department ie one fron Dept1 and
the other
from Dept2."

What should that look like? Give a few lines of example output.

What does "max say..." mean? What decides if there are 2, 1 or 0? Spell
out the decision clearly.

What does "as general as possible" mean?

regards
Paul


asante_za wrote:
> Sheet1 contains a list of course codes and the dates the courses are running
> eg.
> CSB00 09-Jan-2006
> CSB00 10-Jan-2006
> CSB01 09-Jan-2006
> CSB02 10-Jan-2006
>
> Sheet2 contains a list of students and the courses assigned to the students
> eg.
> James CSB00 Dep1
> Jones CSB00 Dept1
> Sam CSB00 Dept2
> John CSB00 Dept2
> (Data in different cells for name, course, Dept)
> Please a macro or VB to assign students (max say 2 per course date) to
> course dates and distribute across department ie one fron Dept1 and the other
> from Dept2. Please make it as general as possible as I wish to apply to a
> large database
>
> Thanks in advance
> --
> JA

Further to Paul's note, are there only ever two departments? What are the
maximums - courses, attendees,departments etc. What happems in there are more
potential attendees than places (number of potential attendees > max(courses
planned) * max(attendees per course)?

"[email protected]" wrote:

> Hi
> Your input is clear but what do you want your output to look like? You
> say
>
> "Please a macro or VB to assign students (max say 2 per course date) to
>
> course dates and distribute across department ie one fron Dept1 and
> the other
> from Dept2."
>
> What should that look like? Give a few lines of example output.
>
> What does "max say..." mean? What decides if there are 2, 1 or 0? Spell
> out the decision clearly.
>
> What does "as general as possible" mean?
>
> regards
> Paul
>
>
> asante_za wrote:
> > Sheet1 contains a list of course codes and the dates the courses are running
> > eg.
> > CSB00 09-Jan-2006
> > CSB00 10-Jan-2006
> > CSB01 09-Jan-2006
> > CSB02 10-Jan-2006
> >
> > Sheet2 contains a list of students and the courses assigned to the students
> > eg.
> > James CSB00 Dep1
> > Jones CSB00 Dept1
> > Sam CSB00 Dept2
> > John CSB00 Dept2
> > (Data in different cells for name, course, Dept)
> > Please a macro or VB to assign students (max say 2 per course date) to
> > course dates and distribute across department ie one fron Dept1 and the other
> > from Dept2. Please make it as general as possible as I wish to apply to a
> > large database
> >
> > Thanks in advance
> > --
> > JA
>
>