Cross checking booked holiday with project dates

[Fawjon]

Hi

I have sheet1 (project dates) set up like this:

Start Date | End Date | Initial
15/01/2019 20/01/2019 BF
16/01/2019 16/01/2019 FB
01/02/2019 14/02/2019 BF
15/02/2019 28/02/2019 FB

...and sheet2 (booked holiday) set up like this:

Holiday Date | Initial
16/01/2019 BF
15/01/2019 FB
14/02/2019 BF
14/02/2019 FB

I would like to flag on sheet1 any projects that have date ranges which clash with the booked holidays (using the Initials as an identifier for clashes). Hopefully that makes sense? I've spent a couple of hours scouring the internet for an answer to this relatively simple function but I haven't had any luck.

Thanks for your help!

 

[Rijnsent]

Hi Fawjon,
I guess the COUNTIFS formula should be able to give you an answer.
E.g. like so (formula for sheet1, cell D2):
=COUNTIFS(sheet2!B:B,C2,sheet2!A:A,">="&A2,sheet2!A:A,"<="&B2)
Cheers,
Koen

 

[Fawjon]

Hi Fawjon,
I guess the COUNTIFS formula should be able to give you an answer.
E.g. like so (formula for sheet1, cell D2):
=COUNTIFS(sheet2!B:B,C2,sheet2!A:A,">="&A2,sheet2!A:A,"<="&B2)
Cheers,
Koen

Thanks for the reply Koen. I eventually found a way to do it using sumifs

=IFERROR(IF(SUMIFS(holidaylist!C:C,holidaylist!A:A,">="&[@Start],holidaylist!A:A,"<="&[@Finish],holidaylist!B:B,[@[PM 1clash]])>0,"Holiday",""),"")

(holidaylist!C:C = value of 1 for each record, holidaylist!A:A = holiday dates, holidaylistB:B = employee initials, @start = project start date, @finish = project end date, PM1clash = project employee initial)