Help me I've lost days trying to extract and concatenate unique values

[DigitalZugzwang]

In the table below is for a job tracking project. Job No, defines the job. Site, where the job happened. Act, the activity that took place. Comp, the component involved in the activity. Finally, costc, which are the cost centers for the implementation of the act+comp.

What I'm trying to do is:
1st - extract the site based on job number. I can do this with {=index([site],match(0,if($b$1=[job no],countif($g$1:g1,[site],""),0)) I do wonder if there is a better way than an array as the table gets larger?

2nd - How to extract and concatenate the act and related comp for each site of the job. This is the part I'm totally stuck on.

[TABLE="width: 530"]
<colgroup><col width="99" style="width:74pt" span="4"> <col width="134" style="width:100pt"> </colgroup><tbody>[TR]
[TD="width: 99, bgcolor: #5B9BD5"]site[/TD]
[TD="width: 99, bgcolor: #5B9BD5"]act[/TD]
[TD="width: 99, bgcolor: #5B9BD5"]comp[/TD]
[TD="width: 99, bgcolor: #5B9BD5"]costc[/TD]
[TD="width: 134, bgcolor: #5B9BD5"]Job No[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Test[/TD]
[TD]Install[/TD]
[TD]Antenna[/TD]
[TD]Labor[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]1[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]Test[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]install[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]Antenna[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]Materials[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent, align: right"]1[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Test[/TD]
[TD]install[/TD]
[TD]Antenna[/TD]
[TD]Equipment[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]1[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]Test[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]Decom[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]Lines[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]Labor[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent, align: right"]1[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Test[/TD]
[TD]Decom[/TD]
[TD]Radio[/TD]
[TD]Labor[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]2[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]OMG[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]Maintain[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]Antenna[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]Labor[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent, align: right"]2[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]OMG[/TD]
[TD]Maintain[/TD]
[TD]Radio[/TD]
[TD]Labor[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]2[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]OMG[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]Maintain[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]Lines[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]Labor[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent, align: right"]2[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Test[/TD]
[TD]Install[/TD]
[TD]Lines[/TD]
[TD]Labor[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]2[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]Test[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]Install[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]Lines[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]Equipment[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent, align: right"]2[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]SmellsBad[/TD]
[TD]decom[/TD]
[TD]Antenna[/TD]
[TD]Labor[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]1[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]SmellsBad[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]decom[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]Antenna[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]Equipment[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent, align: right"]1[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]SmellsBad[/TD]
[TD]decom[/TD]
[TD]Antenna[/TD]
[TD]Materials[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]1[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]Need1more[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]Maintain[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]Antenna[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]Labor[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent, align: right"]3[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Need1more[/TD]
[TD]Maintain[/TD]
[TD]Radio[/TD]
[TD]Labor[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]3[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]Need1more[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]Maintain[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]Radio[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]Equipment[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent, align: right"]3[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]ROLF[/TD]
[TD]Install[/TD]
[TD]Radio[/TD]
[TD]Labor[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]3[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]ROLF[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]Install[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]Radio[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]Equipment[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent, align: right"]3[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]ROLF[/TD]
[TD]Install[/TD]
[TD]Radio[/TD]
[TD]Materials[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]3[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]OMG[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]Install[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]Lines[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]Labor[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent, align: right"]4[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]OMG[/TD]
[TD]Install[/TD]
[TD]Lines[/TD]
[TD]Equipment[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]4[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]OMG[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]Install[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]Antenna[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]Labor[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent, align: right"]4[/TD]
[/TR]
</tbody>[/TABLE]


So doing this for Job No 1 should result in:


[TABLE="width: 247"]
<colgroup><col width="113" style="width:85pt"> <col width="134" style="width:100pt"> </colgroup><tbody>[TR]
[TD="width: 113, bgcolor: transparent"]Site[/TD]
[TD="width: 134, bgcolor: transparent"]Description[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]Test[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]Install: Antenna; Decom: Lines, Radio[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]SmellsBad[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]Decom: Antenna[/TD]
[/TR]
</tbody>[/TABLE]

Thank you in advanced for any and all help, advice, and/or insight. This has been killing me for days!

 

[MrKowz]

Welcome to the forums!

We actually may be able to get a bit crafty with pivot tables to accomplish this.

Try this out. Create a PivotTable with that data. put "Job No", and "Costc" in the "Filters" Area, put "Site", "act", and "comp" in the rows field. Now go to the Design tab under PivotTable Tools.
* Under "Subtotals", choose "Do Not Show Subtotals".
* Under "Grand Totals", choose "Off For Rows and Columns"
* Under "Report Layout", choose "Show in Tabular Form"

Now, you can use the Job No dropdown and the costc dropdown to filter your data to display the summary.

Excel 2013/2016
	A	B	C
1	Job No	1
2	costc	Labor
3
4	site	act	comp
5	SmellsBad	Decom	Antenna
6	Test	Decom	Lines
7		Install	Antenna
Sheet10

 

[DigitalZugzwang]

That worked excellent but I guess I didn't point out one part. The reason for this is to be able to generate a bid quote or an invoice or something along those lines. I was working with pivot tables earlier (no where as nice as this turned out) but I couldn't figure out how to extract it into a form where I could have the site listed with the act/comp info concatenated. Do you know how to pull the info off of the pivot table?