Excel alerts

Valentino

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Hi everyone,

In an excel file i am refreshing data from a web query every 10 minutes. In the sheet i have some if formulas which check whether certain conditions have been met. If these are met, i would like to get a notification or alert, not necessarily by email but just in excel as i have the file open all day but just not scanning it all the time. Is there an easy way to do this, or can it only be done by vba? Is there some example of this solution/vba script?

Many thanks for your thoughts!!!

Valentino
 

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Glad you got it sorted.
Hi Johnny,
the last few days i have been very busy testing the code to generate alerts once certain conditions are met. As said, it works very well now that i rebuild my workbook a bit.
Additionally, I have been trying to adjust the code (see below) a bit to add something to the output, unfortunately when i tried so the code failed.

As you are the creator of the vba code, would you be so kind to see if it's easy to make this adjustment? If so, could you please give me some guidance how to do it..?
What i would like to achieve, is to change the current notification from "(1) Asset10" (indicating that Asset10 changed from "0" to "1", see blue cell in picture below) into "(1) Asset10 Completed" (so add value from column B highlighted in yellow to the notification).

Below please find the code that i have been working with.

If easier to start a new thread for this please indicate, but i figured it was more on topic of this thread as it's an addition tot he existing code.

Many thanks for thoughts!

Valentino


VBA Code:
Private Sub Worksheet_Calculate()
'
'   V1.2
'   1st 10 minute refresh will create the destination if it doesn't exist & will save the Formula column results to create a base line to compare to.
'   All other 10 minute refreshes will compare the current formula column to the previous formula column and display the row #s that changed to '1' or '-1'.
'
'   Check the lines at the top of the script that end with ' <---
'       Those lines are the lines that may need to be changed to reflect your particular setup.
'
'
    Dim FormulaStartRow                 As Long, LastRowAssetColummn    As Long
    Dim DestinationSheet                As String
    Dim AssetColumn                     As String, FormulaColumn        As String
    Dim wsDestination                   As Worksheet, wsSource          As Worksheet
'
    DestinationSheet = "TenMinuteUpdates"                           ' <--- Set this to the name of the sheet to store 10 minute results into
    Set wsSource = ThisWorkbook.Sheets("Sheet1")                    ' <--- Set this to the sheetname that has the '1's & '0's
'
      FormulaColumn = "E"                                           ' <--- Set this to the formula Column letter
    FormulaStartRow = 2                                             ' <--- Set this to the start row of formulas in the FormulaColumn
       AssetColumn = "A"                                            ' <--- Set this to the Asset Column letter, this column is used to determine last row
'
    LastRowAssetColummn = wsSource.Range(AssetColumn & Rows.Count).End(xlUp).Row ' Determine last row of data
'
    If Application.CountIf(wsSource.Range(FormulaColumn & FormulaStartRow & _
            ":" & FormulaColumn & LastRowAssetColummn), "1") > 0 Or _
            Application.CountIf(wsSource.Range(FormulaColumn & FormulaStartRow & _
            ":" & FormulaColumn & LastRowAssetColummn), "-1") > 0 Then  ' If the range contains any value of 1 or -1 then ...
'
        Dim DestinationSheetExists      As Boolean
        Dim FormulaColumnRow            As Long, OutputArrayRow As Long
        Dim LastDestinationColumnNumber As Long
        Dim RowOffset                   As Long
        Dim AssetColumnArray            As Variant, FormulaColumnArray          As Variant
        Dim OutputArray                 As Variant, PreviousFormulaResultArray  As Variant
'
        On Error Resume Next                                        '   Bypass error generated in next line if sheet does not exist
        Set wsDestination = ThisWorkbook.Sheets(DestinationSheet)   '   Assign DestinationSheet to wsDestination
        On Error GoTo 0                                             '   Turn Excel error handling back on
'
        If Not wsDestination Is Nothing Then DestinationSheetExists = True      '   Check to see if the DestinationSheet exists
'
' Create DestinationSheet if it doesn't exist
        If DestinationSheetExists = False Then                                  '   If DestinationSheet does not exist then ...
            ThisWorkbook.Sheets.Add(After:=wsSource).Name = DestinationSheet    '       Create the DestinationSheet after the Source sheet
            Set wsDestination = ThisWorkbook.Sheets(DestinationSheet)           '       Assign the DestinationSheet to wsDestination
        End If
'
' Save Assets into array
        AssetColumnArray = wsSource.Range(AssetColumn & _
                FormulaStartRow & ":" & AssetColumn & _
                LastRowAssetColummn)                                '   Save the values of the Asset Column range into the 2D 1 based AssetColumnArray RC
'
' Save formulas into array
        FormulaColumnArray = wsSource.Range(FormulaColumn & _
                FormulaStartRow & ":" & FormulaColumn & _
                LastRowAssetColummn)                                '   Save the values of the formula Column range into the 2D 1 based FormulaColumnArray RC
'
        ReDim OutputArray(1 To UBound(FormulaColumnArray))          '   Establish # of rows in 1D 1 based OutputArray
'
' Create Saved formula result column on DestinationSheet
        If wsDestination.Range("A1") = vbNullString Then
            wsDestination.Range("A1") = Date                        '   Display the Date on DestinationSheet
            wsDestination.Range("A2") = Time()                      '   Display the Time on DestinationSheet
            wsDestination.Range("A3") = "------------------"        '   Display spacer line on DestinationSheet
'
            wsDestination.Range("A4").Resize(UBound(FormulaColumnArray)) = _
                FormulaColumnArray                                  '   Display results to DestinationSheet
'
            wsDestination.UsedRange.EntireColumn.AutoFit            '   Autofit all of the columns
'
            GoTo SubExit
        End If
'
' Load previous formula results into array
        PreviousFormulaResultArray = wsDestination.Range("A4:A" & _
                wsDestination.Range("A" & Rows.Count).End(xlUp).Row)    '   Load previous formula results into PreviousFormulaResultArray
'
        OutputArrayRow = 0                                          '   Initialize OutputArrayRow to zero
        RowOffset = FormulaStartRow - LBound(FormulaColumnArray)    '   Determine Row difference between FormulaStartRow and start row of FormulaColumnArray
'
'-------------------------------------------------------------------
'
        For FormulaColumnRow = 1 To UBound(FormulaColumnArray, 1)   '   Loop through the FormulaColumnArray to check for '1's & '-1's
            If FormulaColumnArray(FormulaColumnRow, 1) = "1" Or _
                    FormulaColumnArray(FormulaColumnRow, 1) = "-1" Then '       If a '1' or '-1' is found then ...
                If PreviousFormulaResultArray(FormulaColumnRow, 1) = 0 Then '       If previous value was '0' then ...
                    OutputArrayRow = OutputArrayRow + 1                 '           Increment OutputArrayRow
'
                    OutputArray(OutputArrayRow) = "(" & _
                            FormulaColumnArray(FormulaColumnRow, 1) & _
                            ") " & AssetColumnArray(FormulaColumnRow, 1)    '           Save the changed to value & Asset into OutputArray
                End If
            End If
        Next                                                        '   Loop Back
'
        LastDestinationColumnNumber = wsDestination.Cells.Find("*", _
                , xlFormulas, , xlByColumns, xlPrevious).Column     '   Get last Column Number used in the DestinationSheet
'
        wsDestination.Cells(1, LastDestinationColumnNumber + 1) = Date      '   Display the Date on DestinationSheet
        wsDestination.Cells(2, LastDestinationColumnNumber + 1) = Time()    '   Display the Time on DestinationSheet
        wsDestination.Cells(3, LastDestinationColumnNumber + 1) = "------------------"  '   Display spacer line on DestinationSheet
'
        wsDestination.Cells(4, LastDestinationColumnNumber _
                + 1).Resize(UBound(OutputArray)) = _
                Application.Transpose(OutputArray)                  '   Display results to DestinationSheet
'
'Save current formula results to the DestinationSheet
        wsDestination.Range("A1") = Date                            '   Display the Date on DestinationSheet
        wsDestination.Range("A2") = Time()                          '   Display the Time on DestinationSheet
        wsDestination.Range("A3") = "------------------"            '   Display spacer line on DestinationSheet
'
        wsDestination.Range("A4").Resize(UBound(FormulaColumnArray)) = _
            FormulaColumnArray                                      '   Display results to DestinationSheet
'
        wsDestination.UsedRange.EntireColumn.AutoFit                '   Autofit all of the columns
    End If
'
'-------------------------------------------------------------------
'
SubExit:
End Sub
 

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In case you forgot, please refer back to post#s 34 & 36.
 
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