a twist: I’d like to have a single drop-down in my spreadsheet, along with 2 radio buttons, to select the content of the drop-down (Name or UniqueCode). I remember using CHOOSE to select from a list of ranges, and passing the linked cell of the radio buttons as the first parameter to the CHOOSE function. Something like:
=CHOOSE(radio_select, Range1, Range2) as a named range, and use it on the DropDown. but it doesn’t seem to work. any ideas?

Thanks as always for force me to use my rusty grey matter !!!

the first Column (ID) is the one I use.

Nevertheless, I’ve found the solution using Chandoo’s sorting with alphabetical formulas’ post, using countif to determine the order of the text, and it worked wonderfully !!!

Thanks to all !!

What I have done so far is, using this post, create an sorted UniqueCode list, which I’m feeding a dropdown with.

My problem now is how to create another sorted list, now using the Name field ( and no macros,if possible), since I cannot see how to order text if possible. I thought on a very, very very complex formula to translate each letteer of the text into a number, and then order by that, but I’m sure there is a better, more efficient, and much more simple way to do so.

Hope this helps.

Thanks, Martín.

http://chandoo.org/wp/2008/11/25/advanced-data-validation-techniques-in-excel-spreadcheats/
http://chandoo.org/wp/2008/11/19/vlookup-match-and-offset-explained-in-plain-english-spreadcheats/

Let me know if you still have a problem implementing this.

a little help with a twist: I have a list with 3 columns: ID, Name and UniqueCode. I wanto to show a dropdown to select a single item either by Name (sorted ascending), or by the UniqueCode (sorted ascending). I’ve just inserted 2 radio buttons to select the criteria, but I don’t know how to continue.. PLease Help !!!

Thanks,

Martín

depends on what you mean by ‘filtering of KPI’. You can add Excel’s filter to an additional row above the data, however, if you filter the data, the scroll bar will not adjust its size and this looks a bit weird. Furthermore the filter does not adjust itself to any user changes on the dashboard like scrolling up or down, changing sort criteria or sort order. You can write some VBA code, of course, to overcome these drawbacks, but I think there is no way of doing this without VBA.

Having said that, if you want to select a certain KPI in a column (like having five KPIs in total, but only showing one or two of them on the dashboard), you can use combo boxes and change the third parameter of the OFFSET formulas on the worksheet Calculation to use the target cell of your combo boxes.

use the target cell of the horizontal scroll bar as the 3rd parameter in your OFFSET formulas (column offset).

Here is an example for download:

http://www.box.net/shared/n0ojl367vu

You need OFFSET formulas in the column headers as well.

Please be advised that you may run into a problem, if you have different number formats per column. OFFSET simply fetches the data. It does not bring back the number formats.