lukasvjohansson
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Hi,
I have a problem regarding a structure for project management and specifically deadlines.
On the rows I have different customers/projects which each have columns with different activities, e.g.:
[TABLE="width: 500"]
<tbody>[TR]
[TD]Project/Customer[/TD]
[TD]Deadline activity 1[/TD]
[TD]Deadline activity 2[/TD]
[TD]Deadline activity 3[/TD]
[TD]Deadline activity 4[/TD]
[TD]...[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Customer 1[/TD]
[TD]2019-02-28[/TD]
[TD]2019-03-05[/TD]
[TD]2019-03-07[/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Customer 2[/TD]
[TD]YES[/TD]
[TD]Not possible[/TD]
[TD]2019-03-01[/TD]
[TD]2019-04-02[/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Customer 3[/TD]
[TD]YES[/TD]
[TD]2019-01-02[/TD]
[TD]YES[/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Customer 4[/TD]
[TD]YES[/TD]
[TD]2019-03-02[/TD]
[TD]2019-03-13[/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Customer 5[/TD]
[TD]YES[/TD]
[TD]YES[/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD]Not possible[/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Customer...[/TD]
[TD]YES[/TD]
[TD]YES[/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD]Not possible[/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[/TR]
</tbody>[/TABLE]
For example, the data could look like this. Where yes indicates a finished deadline, not possible is an activity that is not possible to perform, and for the blank cells there is not a deadline in place yet, but will be added later. Dates that has already passed may be still kept in the table, like in activity 2 and customer 3 in the example above. I have already applied a conditional formatting on this table, but now...
... I would like to create a separate ranking table of, for e.g., the top 10 most pressing activities, regardless of customer and activity:
[TABLE="width: 500"]
<tbody>[TR]
[TD]Ranking[/TD]
[TD]Customer[/TD]
[TD]Activity[/TD]
[TD]Date[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]1[/TD]
[TD]Customer 1[/TD]
[TD]Deadline activity 1[/TD]
[TD]2019-02-28[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]2[/TD]
[TD]Customer 4[/TD]
[TD]Deadline activity 2[/TD]
[TD]2019-03-02[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]3[/TD]
[TD]...[/TD]
[TD]...[/TD]
[TD]...[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]4[/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]5[/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]6[/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]...[/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[/TR]
</tbody>[/TABLE]
Ive tried with =SMALL function and using the ranking as the N.th smallest date, but realised that since old dates might be included, the difference from TODAY() function is probably most applicable to get which date is coming up next. Ive made som progress with MMULT function, but at that point things got a bit too complex for me. My greatest challenge seem to be that the table that should be modified includes date, strings and blank cells. And since date is just a format and is still seen as number, I have a hard time separating them.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Basically my need is to develop a easy, comprehensive to-do list that can handle multiple projects (about 50+) and multiple deadlines on many different activity types (>10)
Best regards
Lukas
I have a problem regarding a structure for project management and specifically deadlines.
On the rows I have different customers/projects which each have columns with different activities, e.g.:
[TABLE="width: 500"]
<tbody>[TR]
[TD]Project/Customer[/TD]
[TD]Deadline activity 1[/TD]
[TD]Deadline activity 2[/TD]
[TD]Deadline activity 3[/TD]
[TD]Deadline activity 4[/TD]
[TD]...[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Customer 1[/TD]
[TD]2019-02-28[/TD]
[TD]2019-03-05[/TD]
[TD]2019-03-07[/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Customer 2[/TD]
[TD]YES[/TD]
[TD]Not possible[/TD]
[TD]2019-03-01[/TD]
[TD]2019-04-02[/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Customer 3[/TD]
[TD]YES[/TD]
[TD]2019-01-02[/TD]
[TD]YES[/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Customer 4[/TD]
[TD]YES[/TD]
[TD]2019-03-02[/TD]
[TD]2019-03-13[/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Customer 5[/TD]
[TD]YES[/TD]
[TD]YES[/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD]Not possible[/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Customer...[/TD]
[TD]YES[/TD]
[TD]YES[/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD]Not possible[/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[/TR]
</tbody>[/TABLE]
For example, the data could look like this. Where yes indicates a finished deadline, not possible is an activity that is not possible to perform, and for the blank cells there is not a deadline in place yet, but will be added later. Dates that has already passed may be still kept in the table, like in activity 2 and customer 3 in the example above. I have already applied a conditional formatting on this table, but now...
... I would like to create a separate ranking table of, for e.g., the top 10 most pressing activities, regardless of customer and activity:
[TABLE="width: 500"]
<tbody>[TR]
[TD]Ranking[/TD]
[TD]Customer[/TD]
[TD]Activity[/TD]
[TD]Date[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]1[/TD]
[TD]Customer 1[/TD]
[TD]Deadline activity 1[/TD]
[TD]2019-02-28[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]2[/TD]
[TD]Customer 4[/TD]
[TD]Deadline activity 2[/TD]
[TD]2019-03-02[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]3[/TD]
[TD]...[/TD]
[TD]...[/TD]
[TD]...[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]4[/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]5[/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]6[/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]...[/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[/TR]
</tbody>[/TABLE]
Ive tried with =SMALL function and using the ranking as the N.th smallest date, but realised that since old dates might be included, the difference from TODAY() function is probably most applicable to get which date is coming up next. Ive made som progress with MMULT function, but at that point things got a bit too complex for me. My greatest challenge seem to be that the table that should be modified includes date, strings and blank cells. And since date is just a format and is still seen as number, I have a hard time separating them.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Basically my need is to develop a easy, comprehensive to-do list that can handle multiple projects (about 50+) and multiple deadlines on many different activity types (>10)
Best regards
Lukas
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