Hello,
I'm writing a bit more of the explanation because I don't (yet) have an example to add. And my boss wouldn't be very happy when throwing the original data on the internet.
I have an excel sheet with a table in and I made a dashboard where the user can define 3 criteria by means of a spinner button (forms element).
In this dashboard the user must specify ONE department with ONE year and ONE month. It's not possible to select ALL departments and ALL YEARS... The corresponding value is the looked up in the table and is shown in the dashboard. The different charts are updated accordingly.
Then I also made a new sheet where the user can define a date range and can select up to 6 criteria to choose from.
The date range is put in manually but the criteria are selected by 6 spinner buttons. In this lists I added the possibility to choose ALL values instead of ONE value.
example:
The table is about the complaints from our customers
- user enters date range
- user defines ONE Department or selects ALL Departments
- user defines ONE Contract Group or selects ALL Contract Groups
- user defines ONE Subject or selects ALL Subjects
... so up to 6 criteria
The selecting of ALL Departments or ALL Subjects is done by selecting the word "ALL".
Then by recording a macro and using the advanced filter the user can hit a button and the detailed result of the defined criteria is listed in a new worksheet. That is: all the lines from the complaint table that correspond to the defined criteria.
So far so good...
The thing is...
I also want to use the ALL-thing in a dashboard. In the first dashboard the user had to choose from ONE criterium and wasn't able to select ALL.
The user must be able to make different choices:
- users sets all criteria to ALL
- users specifies two criteria and sets the rest to ALL
- users specifies three criteria and sets the rest to ALL
- ...
Do you have suggestions how this can be defined? With only two variables it isn't a problem to do this but with 6 variables this get out of hand when trying defining this.
Thank you for your input.
Regards
Wim
I'm writing a bit more of the explanation because I don't (yet) have an example to add. And my boss wouldn't be very happy when throwing the original data on the internet.
I have an excel sheet with a table in and I made a dashboard where the user can define 3 criteria by means of a spinner button (forms element).
In this dashboard the user must specify ONE department with ONE year and ONE month. It's not possible to select ALL departments and ALL YEARS... The corresponding value is the looked up in the table and is shown in the dashboard. The different charts are updated accordingly.
Then I also made a new sheet where the user can define a date range and can select up to 6 criteria to choose from.
The date range is put in manually but the criteria are selected by 6 spinner buttons. In this lists I added the possibility to choose ALL values instead of ONE value.
example:
The table is about the complaints from our customers
- user enters date range
- user defines ONE Department or selects ALL Departments
- user defines ONE Contract Group or selects ALL Contract Groups
- user defines ONE Subject or selects ALL Subjects
... so up to 6 criteria
The selecting of ALL Departments or ALL Subjects is done by selecting the word "ALL".
Then by recording a macro and using the advanced filter the user can hit a button and the detailed result of the defined criteria is listed in a new worksheet. That is: all the lines from the complaint table that correspond to the defined criteria.
So far so good...
The thing is...
I also want to use the ALL-thing in a dashboard. In the first dashboard the user had to choose from ONE criterium and wasn't able to select ALL.
The user must be able to make different choices:
- users sets all criteria to ALL
- users specifies two criteria and sets the rest to ALL
- users specifies three criteria and sets the rest to ALL
- ...
Do you have suggestions how this can be defined? With only two variables it isn't a problem to do this but with 6 variables this get out of hand when trying defining this.
Thank you for your input.
Regards
Wim