Is it possible to reference the name of the current table in a formula?

Question

Hi,
I am wanting to be able to reference the name of the same table that I am entering a formula into, i.e.:
=SUMIFS(Net,Event,"CURRENT TABLE NAME HERE",Category,"Publicity")
Is this possible?
Thanks,
Nick

Answer 1

AppleScript can access the current table name, so it if you are doing a lot of formula entry in different tables you could click once in a table and have a short script insert the formula for you.  Here's a simple example:
Say you have a data table like this:
Event
Category
Net
Event 1
Publicity
10
Event 2
Celebration
20
Event 1
Supplies
5
Event 1
Salaries
20
Event 3
Celebration
25
Event 1
Publicity
20
Event 2
Publicity
11
Event 1
Accounting
20
And (important) you have 'Use Header Names as Labels' turned on in Numbers > Preferences.
You caninsert this formula:
=SUMIFS(Net,Event,"Event 1",Category,"Publicity")
... into a table named Event 1 that looks like this:
Cat
Amount
Publicity
30
...with a script like this:
-- NB:  the \ "escape" the quotation marks so AppleScript takes them literally
tell application "Numbers"
  set t to document 1's active sheet's first table whose selection range's class is range
  set c to t's selection range's first cell
  set c's value to "=SUMIFS(Net,Event," & "\"" & t's name & "\"" & ",Category,\"Publicity\")"
end tell
The script automatically inserts the name of the table you have clicked in.
(To use the script just copy and paste into Script Editor, click once in the cell where you want the formula (B2 in the example) and click the 'Run' triangle button in Script Editor.)
SG