Advanced filter macro failing

[HANSEMINATOR]

Hi!

After having solved countless Excel related tasks using this forum, I thought I'd better register and say hi and thanks.

I am however also at the moment seriously stuck and could use help.

Problem is that I want to filter data finding all relevant people based on:

• Location
• Activity Dates (only people active between two dates)
• Group

I was inspired by this approach Advanced custom date filter in Excel 2007 | Get Digital Help - Microsoft Excel resource

only thinking that I could take my form data and make a hidden version of what has been done in the example above.

My vba code does however fail, which is very weird, because the code has been generated by a recording a macro, which succeeds when i record it!

Have anybody ever experienced this? Or do you perhaps have a other suggestion how to filter the data?

The filter code which is generated by the macro looks as follows:

    ThisWorkbook.Sheets("Data").Range("A1:O788").AdvancedFilter Action:=xlFilterInPlace, CriteriaRange:= _
    Sheets("Hiddensheet").Range("A1:O2"), Unique:=False

Really appreciate the help
Regards

 

[Norie]

How does it fail?

What's your criteria and what's in the criteria range?

 

[HANSEMINATOR]

It fails by not finding the same entries as are found when I use the exact same data and criteria range and run the advanced filtering tool "inside" excel.

It never finds any entries actually.

My criteria range is the first two rows Range A1:Y2 and looks like this:

I want to be able to find all entries with a specific location, group that has an end date within a specific interval. So I am giving the filter 4 criteria.
[TABLE="width: 750"]
<tbody>[TR]
[TD][/TD]
[TD]A[/TD]
[TD]B[/TD]
[TD]C[/TD]
[TD]D[/TD]
[TD]E[/TD]
[TD]F[/TD]
[TD]G[/TD]
[TD]H[/TD]
[TD]I[/TD]
[TD]J[/TD]
[TD]K[/TD]
[TD]L[/TD]
[TD]M[/TD]
[TD]N[/TD]
[TD]O[/TD]
[TD]P[/TD]
[TD]Q[/TD]
[TD]R[/TD]
[TD]S[/TD]
[TD]T[/TD]
[TD]U[/TD]
[TD]V[/TD]
[TD]X[/TD]
[TD]Y[/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]1[/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD]Location[/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD]End Date[/TD]
[TD]End Date[/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD]Group[/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]2[/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD]xx[/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD]>=dd/mm/yyyy[/TD]
[TD]<=dd/mm/yyyy[/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD]xxx[/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]3[/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[/TR]
</tbody>[/TABLE]

The data sheet which it is filtering looks as follows:

Has a lot of headings and only real difference is that there is only one End Date column

[TABLE="width: 750"]
<tbody>[TR]
[TD][/TD]
[TD]A[/TD]
[TD]B[/TD]
[TD]C[/TD]
[TD]D[/TD]
[TD]E[/TD]
[TD]F[/TD]
[TD]G[/TD]
[TD]H[/TD]
[TD]I[/TD]
[TD]J[/TD]
[TD]K[/TD]
[TD]L[/TD]
[TD]M[/TD]
[TD]N[/TD]
[TD]O[/TD]
[TD]P[/TD]
[TD]Q[/TD]
[TD]R[/TD]
[TD]S[/TD]
[TD]T[/TD]
[TD]U[/TD]
[TD]V[/TD]
[TD]X[/TD]
[TD]Y[/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]1[/TD]
[TD]First Name[/TD]
[TD]Last name[/TD]
[TD]Location[/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD]End Date[/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD]Group[/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]2[/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD]xx[/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD]xxx[/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]3[/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[/TR]
</tbody>[/TABLE]

 

[HANSEMINATOR]

FIXED the date problem!

Seems that Excel uses my EU dd/mm/yyyy settings when running the advanced filter from GUI, but when applying the filter in VBA it will use the US format...

 

[Norie]

Glad you got it sorted.

By the way, you don't need to have the criteria in the same columns as the data.

So you could put the criteria in A1:D2.