Pulling data from a specific worksheet depending on what Quarter it is

[jconkl02]

I have a formula that goes like this:
=COUNTIFS('Q3 Tickets'!$B:$B,">="&AM$2,'Q3 Tickets'!$B:$B,"<"&AM$3,'Q3 Tickets'!$E:$E,"SEV1")

It is looking in a worksheet called Q3 Tickets and finding all of the tickets that were created this week and were a Severity 1 ticket.

What I want to do is have it be able to pull the data from Q3 Tickets in the 3rd quarter, but be smart enough to go to the aptly named Q4 Tickets in a couple of weeks. Any ideas?

 

[sfpowell]

It sounds like you want to user the INDIRECT formula here to change from Q3 to Q4.

The next question would be how do you want it to know when it is supposed to switch from Q3 to Q4?
If you want to just use today's date then you can determine the quarter today is in using the formula:

=ROUNDUP(MONTH(TODAY())/3,0)

and that will just give you a number 1, 2, 3, or 4.
If it's based on a date in a particular cell instead of the date you are actually using the spreadsheet then just replace TODAY() with the cell address.

Combining that with the INDIRECT formula in the formula you provided would give you the following:

=COUNTIFS(INDIRECT("'Q" & ROUNDUP(MONTH(TODAY())/3,0) & " Tickets'!$B:$B"),">="&AM$2,INDIRECT("'Q" & ROUNDUP(MONTH(TODAY())/3,0) & " Tickets'!$B:$B"),"<"&AM$3, INDIRECT("'Q" & ROUNDUP(MONTH(TODAY())/3,0) & " Tickets'!$E:$E"),"SEV1")

Hopefully that gets you going in the right direction.

 

[jconkl02]

sfpowell , you nailed it. Thank you. This does exactly what I wanted and gives me ideas for other ways to use INDIRECT. Thank you.

 

[sfpowell]

Excellent. Thanks for the feedback.