Pivot table Unique dates

[Misca]

Is there a way to count the unique dates (or values) in the pivot table data? I can think of a couple workarounds to solve the problem but not without the limitations.

 

[Fazza]

Hi, Misca. If you search old posts there will be examples; especially posts by me. regards, F

ps Or post a specific example

 

[Fazza]

Here is one example from a few months ago, http://www.mrexcel.com/forum/showthread.php?t=376471 There are many others; there will be some variety amongst them. The approaches are usually quite specific to the question; so it usually is best to post a specific question. Still, if you search amongst a number of the old examples the general ideas should help you solve most similar questions. This (the above link) was a simple example.

 

[Misca]

Hi, Fazza, and thanks for your help!

I had already figured out the "=1/countif(C:C,C2)" -workaround which works fine for simple datasets but my datasets have roughly 50 columns and the users usually change the pivot table layouts quite a lot when they analyze the data. This particular case has shipment data on it and the table is being used to identify shipments from certain zip codes to certain customers by months and the costs are being calculated on the Current Way vs Suggested Way. The "Suggested way" being a specific route on nightly bases - but only for those nights when there's been shipments to these certain customers. Shouldn't be that hard a task but it is because the data may have several shipments from here to there with the same dates and some days only shipments to certain places, not all of them.

I was thinking of coming up with a some kind of SUMPRODUCT-workaround before deciding to ask for people wiser than me for some advice. There's just too many possibilities to filter the data with so I thought maybe there's an easier way...