Rattlerbytes
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I've created a basic 'waiting list / register' database with the autofilter on. It's being used by a gymnastics club and one of the queries they are continually being asked by parents of children on the waiting list is this, "How far down the list is my child?"
The columns that are relevant to this query are;-
A) Class By Age (e.g. S0-S1, S2, S3 etc)
B) Original Date Added (e.g. 2-Sep-08, 14-Jun-07 etc)
E) Name (i.e. First Name)
F) Last Name
I have used the autofilter to specify the Class By Age but then have a problem when trying to determine where a specific child is on the waiting list, i.e. in relation to all the others in the same class, because the given dates determine that the earliest child to join the waiting list is the first child to be offered a place on the register. The 'Original Date Added' column does show when all the children joined the waiting list but I need to get a result that shows a specific child is the 'n'th person out of 120.
The gymnastics club can then gauge how long it should take before that child can join the register.
It's fairly simple to copy the filtered class list to another worksheet and then do a simple sort but I'm hoping there is a reasonably simple way to achieve the intended result on the existing spreadsheet.
It would be nice to have something that ultimately says something like;-
"SMITH MELANIE is 30/120 in S0-S1 Class"
The columns that are relevant to this query are;-
A) Class By Age (e.g. S0-S1, S2, S3 etc)
B) Original Date Added (e.g. 2-Sep-08, 14-Jun-07 etc)
E) Name (i.e. First Name)
F) Last Name
I have used the autofilter to specify the Class By Age but then have a problem when trying to determine where a specific child is on the waiting list, i.e. in relation to all the others in the same class, because the given dates determine that the earliest child to join the waiting list is the first child to be offered a place on the register. The 'Original Date Added' column does show when all the children joined the waiting list but I need to get a result that shows a specific child is the 'n'th person out of 120.
The gymnastics club can then gauge how long it should take before that child can join the register.
It's fairly simple to copy the filtered class list to another worksheet and then do a simple sort but I'm hoping there is a reasonably simple way to achieve the intended result on the existing spreadsheet.
It would be nice to have something that ultimately says something like;-
"SMITH MELANIE is 30/120 in S0-S1 Class"