Right now I am using data validation for my method to populate these combos.
I have a sheet with two combo boxes. One lists RC's (Responsiblilty Centers) and the other lists the Departments depending on which RC the user chooses in list one. I am not sure I did this right because a user choose a certain department and Department Drop Down List for some reason is now limited to the School of Nursing departments related to the user’s entry on the contract log. All the department field drop downs for entire sheet are now restricted to the information related to a user's choice on Line 1 & 2.
I had to cut it down severely due to your example size requirements. The first list was called validrcs and the second was The combo boxes pull their data from lists on sheet 1. The original one has 44 items in the first list and over 1300 in the second list. However, depending on what is chosen in list 1 determines which part of list 2 is displayed. I think it needs to requery after each choice is made. Can this be done? How? I am seriously lost here. Any help is appreciated. The data validation for the second list is: =INDIRECT(SUBSTITUTE(validrcs," ","_"))
I tried changing the data validation for column b to
=INDIRECT(SUBSTITUTE(A4," ","_")) in cell b4 and then copy this validation down the column it should work.
Howver the way you are doing it if column a is changed after column b then the validation method will not work so is there a better way to do this?
I have a sheet with two combo boxes. One lists RC's (Responsiblilty Centers) and the other lists the Departments depending on which RC the user chooses in list one. I am not sure I did this right because a user choose a certain department and Department Drop Down List for some reason is now limited to the School of Nursing departments related to the user’s entry on the contract log. All the department field drop downs for entire sheet are now restricted to the information related to a user's choice on Line 1 & 2.
I had to cut it down severely due to your example size requirements. The first list was called validrcs and the second was The combo boxes pull their data from lists on sheet 1. The original one has 44 items in the first list and over 1300 in the second list. However, depending on what is chosen in list 1 determines which part of list 2 is displayed. I think it needs to requery after each choice is made. Can this be done? How? I am seriously lost here. Any help is appreciated. The data validation for the second list is: =INDIRECT(SUBSTITUTE(validrcs," ","_"))
I tried changing the data validation for column b to
=INDIRECT(SUBSTITUTE(A4," ","_")) in cell b4 and then copy this validation down the column it should work.
Howver the way you are doing it if column a is changed after column b then the validation method will not work so is there a better way to do this?
