Staff Rota Formula

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Hey everyone.

I've created a staff rota spreadsheet which takes a list of staff members and returns 2 staff names with either a blank "date" cell or the oldest date.

I'm a bit stuck though as I can't seem to get the formula to return 2 unique names. Here are some images to explain further, you will see for Centre 3 on the Formula tab that it is returning the same staff name twice - is anyone able to help at all?

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The formula is as follows:
=INDEX(IFERROR(FILTER('Staff List'!$B$2:$B$80,('Staff List'!$C$2:$C$80=C$1)*('Staff List'!$D$2:$D$80="")),FILTER(SORT(FILTER('Staff List'!$B$2:$D$80,('Staff List'!$C$2:$C$80=C$1)),3,1),{1,0,0})),SEQUENCE(2),SEQUENCE(,1))

Thank you so much in advance!
 

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Hi & welcome to MrExcel.
How about
Excel Formula: 
=INDEX(SORT(FILTER('Staff list'!$B$2:$D$80&"",('Staff list'!$C$2:$C$80=C$1)),3,1),{1;2},1)
 
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Fluff said:
Hi & welcome to MrExcel.
How about
Excel Formula: 
=INDEX(SORT(FILTER('Staff list'!$B$2:$D$80&"",('Staff list'!$C$2:$C$80=C$1)),3,1),{1;2},1)
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Hi Fluff,

Thanks so much for your response & your warm welcome.

My apologies, I don't think I used enough detail to explain the intent of the formula.

So I need the rota to return the 2 members of staff that either do not have a "Last Date" or the earliest date in "Last Date" column, moving down the rows using the incremental number in column A.

So for example; For Centre 3, this should be returning Name 2 and Name 4. For Centre 4 this should be returning Name 3 and Name 6. For Centre 5 this should be returning Name 1 and Name 2.

I hope that is a little clearer.

Thank you so much for your help.
R
 
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Fluff said:
That is what it should be doing.
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So using the formula you've provided, Centre 1 looks like this:

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So I would expect this to return Name 2 and Name 3, however it is currently returning Name 2 and Name 4, so is missing Name 3 even though this cell is blank:

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It is repeating this on all centres where it is missing blank cells.

Thank you
R
 
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Check that the cells are actually empty, rather than contain a space or such like.
 
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I cannot replicate that behaviour, can you post some sample data.

MrExcel has a tool called “XL2BB” that lets you post samples of your data that will allow us to copy/paste it to our Excel spreadsheets, so we can work with the same copy of data that you are. Instructions on using this tool can be found here: XL2BB Add-in

Note that there is also a "Test Here” forum on this board. This is a place where you can test using this tool (or any other posting techniques that you want to test) before trying to use those tools in your actual posts.
 
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Fluff said:
I cannot replicate that behaviour, can you post some sample data.

MrExcel has a tool called “XL2BB” that lets you post samples of your data that will allow us to copy/paste it to our Excel spreadsheets, so we can work with the same copy of data that you are. Instructions on using this tool can be found here: XL2BB Add-in

Note that there is also a "Test Here” forum on this board. This is a place where you can test using this tool (or any other posting techniques that you want to test) before trying to use those tools in your actual posts.
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Here is the staff list tab:

Rota - Test.xlsx
ABCD
1NameCentreLast Date
21Name 1Centre 105/01/2022
32Name 2Centre 1
43Name 3Centre 1
54Name 4Centre 1
65Name 5Centre 1
76Name 6Centre 127/01/2022
87Name 7Centre 1
98Name 8Centre 1
101Name 1Centre 2-
112Name 2Centre 2
123Name 3Centre 2-
134Name 4Centre 225/05/2022
145Name 5Centre 2
156Name 6Centre 2
167Name 7Centre 2
178Name 8Centre 221/10/2021
189Name 9Centre 220/07/2022
1910Name 10Centre 229/04/2022
201Name 1Centre 326/10/2021
212Name 2Centre 3
223Name 3Centre 311/05/2022
234Name 4Centre 306/09/2021
245Name 5Centre 307/12/2021
251Name 1Centre 423/09/2021
262Name 2Centre 405/10/2021
273Name 3Centre 4
284Name 4Centre 422/06/2022
295Name 5Centre 402/11/2021
306Name 6Centre 4
317Name 7Centre 4
321Name 1Centre 5
332Name 2Centre 5
343Name 3Centre 5
354Name 4Centre 5
365Name 5Centre 5
376Name 6Centre 5
381Name 1Centre 617/09/2021
392Name 2Centre 616/06/2022
401Name 1Centre 724/11/2021
412Name 2Centre 7
421Name 1Centre 8-
432Name 2Centre 8-
443Name 3Centre 8
454Name 4Centre 817/03/2022
465Name 5Centre 806/10/2021
476Name 6Centre 8
487Name 7Centre 8
498Name 8Centre 8
509Name 9Centre 8
5110Name 10Centre 8
521Name 1Centre 9
532Name 2Centre 908/03/2022
543Name 3Centre 901/10/2021
554Name 4Centre 908/03/2022
565Name 5Centre 927/05/2022
576Name 6Centre 9
587Name 7Centre 925/04/2022
598Name 8Centre 916/03/2022
609Name 9Centre 925/04/2022
6110Name 10Centre 901/10/2021
6211Name 11Centre 913/06/2022
6312Name 12Centre 9
6413Name 13Centre 9
6514Name 14Centre 917/09/2021
6615Name 15Centre 918/05/2022
6716Name 16Centre 9
681Name 1Centre 10
692Name 2Centre 10
703Name 3Centre 1008/11/2021
714Name 4Centre 1018/03/2022
725Name 5Centre 1008/12/2021
736Name 6Centre 1029/10/2021
747Name 7Centre 1015/07/2022
758Name 8Centre 10
769Name 9Centre 10
7710Name 1Centre 11
7811Name 2Centre 11
7912Name 3Centre 11
8013Name 4Centre 11
Staff List


And here is the formula tab:

Rota - Test.xlsx
ABCDEFGHIJK
1Centre 1Centre 2Centre 3Centre 4Centre 5Centre 6Centre 7Centre 8Centre 9Centre 10Centre 11
2Name 2Name 3Name 1Name 1Name 2Name 3Name 1Name 1Name 1#CALC!#CALC!
3Name 4Name 6Name 2Name 2Name 1Name 6Name 6Name 2Name 2#CALC!#CALC!
Formula
Cell Formulas
RangeFormula
A1:K1A1=TRANSPOSE(UNIQUE('Staff List'!$C$2:$C$80,FALSE))
A2:K3A2=INDEX(SORT(FILTER('Staff List'!$B$2:$D$80&"",('Staff List'!$C$2:$C$80=C$1)),3,1),{1;2},1)
Dynamic array formulas.
 
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Thanks for that.
The formula in A2 is looking at C1 for the centre not A1
 
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