Match a person's name to multiple states

mkyb14

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Anyways, I have a master sheet of accounts with a state they are located in.
On another sheet I have an engineer assigned and multiple states they will cover for those accounts.

Sheet 1
Company A, CA, insert name of engineer from sheet 2 here<insert engineer="" name="">
Company B, NY, same<insert engineer="" name="">

Sheet 2 - legend for assignments
John Smith, CA, TX, OK
Jane Oliver, TN, WA, NY
James Dunn, OH,MN,ILL,ND,SD,MT

How can I in sheet 1, reference the assignments and state of the company and return the name of the engineer? I've been bouncing around google and can't seem to make anything work. is this an index,match etc? since there are something like 9 engineers assigned to all the states </insert></insert>
 
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Hello, how is your data laid out? Is "Company A, CA" in one cell, or is "Company A" and "CA" in separate cells?

Same for this: John Smith, CA, TX, OK are each of the items, name and each state in separate cells?
 
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Hello, how is your data laid out? Is "Company A, CA" in one cell, or is "Company A" and "CA" in separate cells?

Same for this: John Smith, CA, TX, OK are each of the items, name and each state in separate cells?


yes, everything is in a separate column.
 
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you can use Index and sumproduct function to get what you want

=INDEX(sheet2!$A$1:$G$3,SUMPRODUCT(--(sheet2!$A$1:$G$3=B2)*ROW(sheet2!$A$1:$G$3)),1)

sheet2!$A$1:$G$3 is legend for assignments
B2 is the company location(state)
 
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change the range to $A$1:$D$7, then it will work fine.

The first state "ca": sumproduct(XXXX) return 5 which is the row count from row1, but the range you chosen only have 3 rows. Errors then happened.
 
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@ mkyb14


Book1
ABCD
4Engineer NameStates they support
5John Smithcatxok
6Jane Smithaztnmn
7James Dunnwaormd
Sheet2


Book1
ABC
1Company NameStateengineer match state
2Company AcaJohn Smith
3Company BtxJohn Smith
4Company CmnJane Smith
5Company DmdJames Dunn
Sheet1


In C2 control+shift+enter, not just enter, and copy down:

=IF(COUNTIFS(Sheet2!$B$5:$D$7,$B2),INDEX(Sheet2!$A$5:$A$7,MIN(IF(Sheet2!$B$5:$D$7=$B2,ROW(Sheet2!$A$5:$A$7)-ROW(INDEX(Sheet2!$A$5:$A$7,1,1))+1))),"nat available")
 
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@ mkyb14

ABCD
Engineer NameStates they support
John Smithcatxok
Jane Smithaztnmn
James Dunnwaormd

<colgroup><col style="width: 25pxpx"><col><col><col><col></colgroup><thead>
</thead><tbody>
[TD="align: center"]4[/TD]

[TD="align: right"][/TD]
[TD="align: right"][/TD]

[TD="align: center"]5[/TD]

[TD="align: center"]6[/TD]

[TD="align: center"]7[/TD]

</tbody>
Sheet2
ABC
Company AcaJohn Smith
Company BtxJohn Smith
Company CmnJane Smith
Company DmdJames Dunn

<colgroup><col style="width: 25pxpx"><col><col><col></colgroup><thead>
</thead><tbody>
[TD="align: center"]1[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]Company Name[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]State[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]engineer match state[/TD]

[TD="align: center"]2[/TD]

[TD="align: center"]3[/TD]

[TD="align: center"]4[/TD]

[TD="align: center"]5[/TD]

</tbody>
Sheet1

In C2 control+shift+enter, not just enter, and copy down:

=IF(COUNTIFS(Sheet2!$B$5:$D$7,$B2),INDEX(Sheet2!$A$5:$A$7,MIN(IF(Sheet2!$B$5:$D$7=$B2,ROW(Sheet2!$A$5:$A$7)-ROW(INDEX(Sheet2!$A$5:$A$7,1,1))+1))),"nat available")

That worked, Thanks!
 
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