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Checkboxes with dynamic linkes cell?

Joris Hermans

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Hello there to you all.

I've been strugling for some times with this issue ... and it seems I can not find the sollution myself .. That's way I post my question here.

Some feedback.
I need to build some kind of "to do list", but with tons of reporting linked to it.

The first chalange I encounterd, was to present the user a list of only active tasks and no blank lines.
As shown in my graph, I find a sollution (maybe not optimal, but fine for the moment) by first creating a temporary table, using vlookups and validation of the status. Next stap was creating a new table, dropping the empty lines.
So far, so good.

Now I'm presenting this dataset to the users in some modified views; only a limited set of records (5 lines) witch the user can scroll using a Form Controll scroller.
At the end of each line, (the first next collumn after the table/view), I put 5 checkboxes, so users can change the status of that record.
Altought the checkbox and its position on the sheet do not change, the cell it need to be linked at, will change depending on the line number (sequence), is on the acual row.
So, checkbox 1 - 5 should first be linked to the first 5 records of "Status" of the first table "Status"
But when the users looks at record 4 - 9, the same checkoxes should be linked to the values of records 4 - 9.

I made some kinda screenshot to clear things out.

ALL suggestions to handle this (even if it means I will have to rebuild the sheet from scratch), are welcom.
BUT ... I prefer to do so NOT using VBA. Will it be possible?

Image 1.jpg
 
Hi,

The checkbox form control linkedcell cannot be dynamic. it would not take indirect, address or offset functions.

At the same time you can still use it dynamically.

Lets say the checkbox are linked to column L2:L6, as in the screen shot.

The formula in tblSource, Cell D2, should be set as vlookup of dynamic view table consisting of L as column to be retrived. It would be something like this in col D, of tblSource
=Vloolup(A2,J2:L6,3,0).

The concept is column J in dynamic view is used as unique identifier of tblsource, so use the same to update the status as well.

Regards,
Prasad DN
 
Sorry, the suggested solution from me doesnt work properly, when you show the next set of data, no doubt the checkbox updates points to next set of data in tblSOURCE but the previous set of other set of data would result in #N/A.

:(

Regards,
Prasad DN
 
Hello Prasad.
Although I'm still suffering from this chalenge, I do appreciate the effort you took trying to help me. I'm sure we (u-hum ... someone :) ) will come up with a briljant sollution (or work arround)
 
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