Hello,
I am a relatively inexperienced Excel user, but I need to create a workbook that will do something fairly advanced. I will be using Excel 2010 and Windows 7.
Goal: I need to track the check-out and check-in of computer laptops by different users with a bar-code scanner. Each user has an ID card with a unique number, and each laptop has a bar-code with its own number. I would like for each user to scan their card then the laptop to check it out, then just re-scan the laptop when they check it in. It needs to be a fairly automatic process where I can come check the log periodically to see who has which laptop, or who checked which one out a few days prior. It's not unusual for some laptops to be out for a couple weeks while other laptops are being checked out and in daily. To complicate matters, I also can't trust the users to know which cells to highlight when they use the scanner, so I'm hoping that there's a way for the program to know which cells to populate based on whether the machine is being checked out or in (first scan vs second).
The resultant log will look something like this:[TABLE="class: grid, width: 500, align: center"]
<tbody>[TR]
[TD]Laptop #[/TD]
[TD]User[/TD]
[TD]Date Out[/TD]
[TD]Date In[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
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[TD][/TD]
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[TD][/TD]
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[TD][/TD]
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[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[/TR]
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[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
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[TD][/TD]
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[/TR]
</tbody>[/TABLE]
I will have a list on another tab with the users' ID numbers and their names. I need their actual names to populate the User cells above.
Thank you in advance for considering my problem and any help you can provide will be greatly appreciated.
DT
I am a relatively inexperienced Excel user, but I need to create a workbook that will do something fairly advanced. I will be using Excel 2010 and Windows 7.
Goal: I need to track the check-out and check-in of computer laptops by different users with a bar-code scanner. Each user has an ID card with a unique number, and each laptop has a bar-code with its own number. I would like for each user to scan their card then the laptop to check it out, then just re-scan the laptop when they check it in. It needs to be a fairly automatic process where I can come check the log periodically to see who has which laptop, or who checked which one out a few days prior. It's not unusual for some laptops to be out for a couple weeks while other laptops are being checked out and in daily. To complicate matters, I also can't trust the users to know which cells to highlight when they use the scanner, so I'm hoping that there's a way for the program to know which cells to populate based on whether the machine is being checked out or in (first scan vs second).
The resultant log will look something like this:[TABLE="class: grid, width: 500, align: center"]
<tbody>[TR]
[TD]Laptop #[/TD]
[TD]User[/TD]
[TD]Date Out[/TD]
[TD]Date In[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
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[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[/TR]
</tbody>[/TABLE]
I will have a list on another tab with the users' ID numbers and their names. I need their actual names to populate the User cells above.
Thank you in advance for considering my problem and any help you can provide will be greatly appreciated.
DT