Excel 2016 create a tracking file
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I have multiple excel files (one for each month) that record the status of a given action. The status can be "Scheduled, Defferred, Fail, Success".
Currently I am loading the data straigh into Excel via a Data Source and Create a pivot table from there. Unfortunately, pivot table does not put the cell value it only counts the values which is helpful but not 100% what I need.
What I am trying to achieve is to get a table with all objects and their status in any given month.
example:
Object | Month 1 | Month 2| Month 3
Object1| Fail | Success| Success
Object2| Fail | Fail | Fail
Each month corresponds to a Excel file ( this is fine with the Data Source).
Without getting into Macro creation (I'm not proficient at it) is there any way I could do this with Excel?
Thank you,
UPDATE
Using the suggestion to have it in tabular form generates the following:
Object | Status | Month 1 | Month 2 |Month 3
Object1| Sucess | 1 | |
Object1| Fail | | 1 | 1
Object2| Success| 1 | 1 |
This is far harder to read, especially when I have close to 1000 lines.
My goal is to have it easy enough that I can pull data from this report easily.
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asked Nov 21 at 9:42
Alexandre Alves
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I have multiple excel files (one for each month) that record the status of a given action. The status can be "Scheduled, Defferred, Fail, Success".
Currently I am loading the data straigh into Excel via a Data Source and Create a pivot table from there. Unfortunately, pivot table does not put the cell value it only counts the values which is helpful but not 100% what I need.
What I am trying to achieve is to get a table with all objects and their status in any given month.
example:
Object | Month 1 | Month 2| Month 3
Object1| Fail | Success| Success
Object2| Fail | Fail | Fail
Each month corresponds to a Excel file ( this is fine with the Data Source).
Without getting into Macro creation (I'm not proficient at it) is there any way I could do this with Excel?
Thank you,
UPDATE
Using the suggestion to have it in tabular form generates the following:
Object | Status | Month 1 | Month 2 |Month 3
Object1| Sucess | 1 | |
Object1| Fail | | 1 | 1
Object2| Success| 1 | 1 |
This is far harder to read, especially when I have close to 1000 lines.
My goal is to have it easy enough that I can pull data from this report easily.
microsoft-excel microsoft-excel-2016
asked Nov 21 at 9:42
Alexandre Alves
1012
put whatever you had in the `values' section of the pivot table into the 'rows' section, and display everything in tabular form with no sub totals, this way you can show the exact values as opposed to a count of values
– PeterH
Nov 21 at 9:47
Thank for the quick feedback. I did try that, but what I get is empty table. On the header I get Month. The first column I get all objects and associate status. But the table itself is empty.
– Alexandre Alves
Nov 21 at 9:53
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I have multiple excel files (one for each month) that record the status of a given action. The status can be "Scheduled, Defferred, Fail, Success".
Currently I am loading the data straigh into Excel via a Data Source and Create a pivot table from there. Unfortunately, pivot table does not put the cell value it only counts the values which is helpful but not 100% what I need.
What I am trying to achieve is to get a table with all objects and their status in any given month.
example:
Object | Month 1 | Month 2| Month 3
Object1| Fail | Success| Success
Object2| Fail | Fail | Fail
Each month corresponds to a Excel file ( this is fine with the Data Source).
Without getting into Macro creation (I'm not proficient at it) is there any way I could do this with Excel?
Thank you,
UPDATE
Using the suggestion to have it in tabular form generates the following:
Object | Status | Month 1 | Month 2 |Month 3
Object1| Sucess | 1 | |
Object1| Fail | | 1 | 1
Object2| Success| 1 | 1 |
This is far harder to read, especially when I have close to 1000 lines.
My goal is to have it easy enough that I can pull data from this report easily.
microsoft-excel microsoft-excel-2016
asked Nov 21 at 9:42
Alexandre Alves
1012
I have multiple excel files (one for each month) that record the status of a given action. The status can be "Scheduled, Defferred, Fail, Success".
Currently I am loading the data straigh into Excel via a Data Source and Create a pivot table from there. Unfortunately, pivot table does not put the cell value it only counts the values which is helpful but not 100% what I need.
What I am trying to achieve is to get a table with all objects and their status in any given month.
example:
Object | Month 1 | Month 2| Month 3
Object1| Fail | Success| Success
Object2| Fail | Fail | Fail
Each month corresponds to a Excel file ( this is fine with the Data Source).
Without getting into Macro creation (I'm not proficient at it) is there any way I could do this with Excel?
Thank you,
UPDATE
Using the suggestion to have it in tabular form generates the following:
Object | Status | Month 1 | Month 2 |Month 3
Object1| Sucess | 1 | |
Object1| Fail | | 1 | 1
Object2| Success| 1 | 1 |
This is far harder to read, especially when I have close to 1000 lines.
My goal is to have it easy enough that I can pull data from this report easily.
microsoft-excel microsoft-excel-2016
microsoft-excel microsoft-excel-2016
asked Nov 21 at 9:42
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asked Nov 21 at 9:42
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asked Nov 21 at 9:42
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put whatever you had in the `values' section of the pivot table into the 'rows' section, and display everything in tabular form with no sub totals, this way you can show the exact values as opposed to a count of values
– PeterH
Nov 21 at 9:47
Thank for the quick feedback. I did try that, but what I get is empty table. On the header I get Month. The first column I get all objects and associate status. But the table itself is empty.
– Alexandre Alves
Nov 21 at 9:53
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put whatever you had in the `values' section of the pivot table into the 'rows' section, and display everything in tabular form with no sub totals, this way you can show the exact values as opposed to a count of values
– PeterH
Nov 21 at 9:47
Thank for the quick feedback. I did try that, but what I get is empty table. On the header I get Month. The first column I get all objects and associate status. But the table itself is empty.
– Alexandre Alves
Nov 21 at 9:53
put whatever you had in the `values' section of the pivot table into the 'rows' section, and display everything in tabular form with no sub totals, this way you can show the exact values as opposed to a count of values
– PeterH
Nov 21 at 9:47
put whatever you had in the `values' section of the pivot table into the 'rows' section, and display everything in tabular form with no sub totals, this way you can show the exact values as opposed to a count of values
– PeterH
Nov 21 at 9:47
Thank for the quick feedback. I did try that, but what I get is empty table. On the header I get Month. The first column I get all objects and associate status. But the table itself is empty.
– Alexandre Alves
Nov 21 at 9:53
Thank for the quick feedback. I did try that, but what I get is empty table. On the header I get Month. The first column I get all objects and associate status. But the table itself is empty.
– Alexandre Alves
Nov 21 at 9:53
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I was going at this in the wrong direction in the end. I do not need to have a Pivot table but while importing the data, I can actually treat it in a way that will create the table as I want.
As a final set of setting up my data source, I select the column that has the files names (Month.xlsx), Select Transform (tab), Pivot Column.
Then I just need to select that I want the values for Status and to not Aggregate the values.
The resulting table has exactly what I was looking for.
answered Nov 21 at 21:36
Alexandre Alves
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1 Answer
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active
oldest
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active
oldest
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active
oldest
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up vote
0
down vote
accepted
I was going at this in the wrong direction in the end. I do not need to have a Pivot table but while importing the data, I can actually treat it in a way that will create the table as I want.
As a final set of setting up my data source, I select the column that has the files names (Month.xlsx), Select Transform (tab), Pivot Column.
Then I just need to select that I want the values for Status and to not Aggregate the values.
The resulting table has exactly what I was looking for.
answered Nov 21 at 21:36
Alexandre Alves
1012
add a comment |
up vote
0
down vote
accepted
I was going at this in the wrong direction in the end. I do not need to have a Pivot table but while importing the data, I can actually treat it in a way that will create the table as I want.
As a final set of setting up my data source, I select the column that has the files names (Month.xlsx), Select Transform (tab), Pivot Column.
Then I just need to select that I want the values for Status and to not Aggregate the values.
The resulting table has exactly what I was looking for.
answered Nov 21 at 21:36
Alexandre Alves
1012
add a comment |
up vote
0
down vote
accepted
up vote
0
down vote
accepted
I was going at this in the wrong direction in the end. I do not need to have a Pivot table but while importing the data, I can actually treat it in a way that will create the table as I want.
As a final set of setting up my data source, I select the column that has the files names (Month.xlsx), Select Transform (tab), Pivot Column.
Then I just need to select that I want the values for Status and to not Aggregate the values.
The resulting table has exactly what I was looking for.
answered Nov 21 at 21:36
Alexandre Alves
1012
I was going at this in the wrong direction in the end. I do not need to have a Pivot table but while importing the data, I can actually treat it in a way that will create the table as I want.
As a final set of setting up my data source, I select the column that has the files names (Month.xlsx), Select Transform (tab), Pivot Column.
Then I just need to select that I want the values for Status and to not Aggregate the values.
The resulting table has exactly what I was looking for.
answered Nov 21 at 21:36
Alexandre Alves
1012
answered Nov 21 at 21:36
Alexandre Alves
1012
answered Nov 21 at 21:36
Alexandre Alves
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answered Nov 21 at 21:36
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put whatever you had in the `values' section of the pivot table into the 'rows' section, and display everything in tabular form with no sub totals, this way you can show the exact values as opposed to a count of values
– PeterH
Nov 21 at 9:47
Thank for the quick feedback. I did try that, but what I get is empty table. On the header I get Month. The first column I get all objects and associate status. But the table itself is empty.
– Alexandre Alves
Nov 21 at 9:53