Referencing cells in other tables

I am trying to build an application that requires formulas that need to reference cells in another table. Is this possible. If not is there a way to have rows in a table hidden so that only the summary totals are showing. So far it appears neither can be done.
Steve

We have had similar questions in the past, and no one has been able to reference one table from another.
To hide a row is not easy either. The best thing seems to be to set the colours of both text and borders to white (or anyhow the background of the page) or 0% opacity, even though the row still takes up space.

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Referencing cells in other numbers spreadsheet files

A couple of questions:
1)I have two sheets (Sheet A and Sheet b) in the same file. Both sheets have a single table named Table 1 in them. I can double tap on a cell in Sheet A Table 1, tap on the equal sign in the entry box. I can then go to Sheet B Table 1 and double tap on a cell. Numbers inserts a reference of Sheet B::Table 1::Col Row. I can now change the value in Sheet B and Sheet A updates automatically. My question is can I type in the reference to the cell in Sheet B and not do all the finger tapping?
2)Can I type in a reference to another cell in a table on a sheet in another Numbers file located on my iPad. If not is there a way to tap to the reference?

I have had no luck typing in any formulas in iPad numbers directly. I can do it using the desktop version, but not the iPad. I found I had to do all the finger tapping the op mentions. Even to type simple formulas that I know how to do by heart, I had to search the function list and select the item from the list.
If I use the keyboard that comes up within the equation editor it places everything in quotes and sees it as text. Which doesn't invert to the actual equation. If I use the text input and type an equal sign with the equation it still sees it only as text.
If you know how to do the typing thing, please give us more in depth instructions on how to do this in numbers for iPad as that would be beneficial to a degree you annotate fathom.
Referencing the other file thing doesn't work in desktop at all, so thi is only reefing to how to get to type in my formuas by hand in. Single file, referring to a single file in iPad numbers.
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Jason

Referencing Cells in another table dynamically

I am preparing a SS with one table per month - I want to start each table with the ending data from the previous table. I can do this by settin a fixed size for the table. Is there a way to reference the last row of another table if I don't know how long that table is? I tried ROWS, but got an error with the form
=ROWS(2008.1::G:2008.1::G) (2008.1 is the table name) TIA

Hello
On this point I disagree. I didn't asked Numbers to +update the value of all strings in all formulas just because they happened to match a table name that+ I renamed.
The given string IS the 5th operand in this formula and Numbers IS aware of the meaning of this operand.
=INDIRECT(ADDRESS(ROWS(2008_1 :: G),COLUMN(G),,,"2008_1"))
operand 1 is ROWS(2008_1 :: G)
operand 2 is COLUMN(G
operand 3 is empty
operand 4 is empty
operand 5 is "2008_1"
To be more explicit, this operand is not a simple string, it IS a table identifier.
If it contains "::" it IS a tableof_asheet identifier.
This may perfectly be parsed without clobbering other occurences of the same strings which don't have the same meaning.
The problem would be the same if, in formulas using a cell address defined by a concatenation (if I remember well you posted some of them) , editing a table name would not be reflected in the formula. I did not tested but I will do.
Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE vendredi 11 janvier 2008 21:00:50)

Referencing cells in other documents?

Is there a way to have a cell reference the value of a cell in another Numbers document?

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Accessing sheets and cells under others in Numbers 3.1

Hi,
I have a rather elaborate Numbers spreadsheet that represents pages of a wall calendar. For each month, each day cell has other tables overlaying it; one to show the text for holiday names, some in the upper left and lower right areas to display small versions of the previous and next month's days, and one to overlay and hide day cells that shouldn't be shown (such as day 30 in February). The entire calendar (except for the placement of the holiday names) is driven by the year value on the first page. This has worked well for me for the past two years, when I was using a version of Numbers from one of the iWork suites, but during the past year, I upgraded to what is now Numbers 3.1. I need to make some adjustments to cells and sheets that are normally not the topmost cells, and in the past, I seem to recall that I could access the appropriate sheet by clicking the appropriate value of a hierarchical listing of sheets that ran down the left side of the display. I don't see this in Numbers 3.1, and though I can bring cells and sheets to the top for editing by selecting the cells / sheets that currently are above the one I want to edit and moving them either "Backward" or "Back", I'm getting lost because I have no visual way to determine what the current layering is. Is there any way to activate the left-side hierarchical display that existed in the previous version of Numbers, or at least to display the named sheets in my speadsheet so I can select specific ones by name?
Thanks,
Ken

You say you "upgraded". Does that mean iWork '09 was on the computer before? If so, then it is still there. Upgrading to Numbers 3.1 does not remove Numbers 2.3. I guess they knew people might want to still use the old version.
Look here:
/Applications/iWork '09/
If you didn't have iWork '09 on the computer before, but still have the disk, try installing it again. I don't know where my disk is so I can't give it a try, but I can't think of a reason not to try. If it screws something up, you can always just uninstall everything and download 3.1 from the store again.

Cell references to other tables, keep from changing

Here's what I am trying to do. I have two tables, in two sheets. Sheet 1::Table 1 and Sheet 2::Table 2.
The cells in Table 2 are all referenced to cells in Table 1 (with a formula that looks like =Table 1::X7).
I want to be able to move the rows in Table 1 around but have the formulas in Table 2 not change their reference. Now it seems they follow along. So the reference in Table 2 is =Table 1::X7 and I move row 7 in Table 1 so that it becomes row 6, my reference in Table 2 changes to =Table 1::X6. I don't want it to change. Changing the reference from relative to absolute doesn't seem to change this.
Any suggestions?
Thanks! Brian

"I looked at INDEX and OFFSET but from what I can tell they don't accept a parameter for a different table."
OFFSET's base can be set as a cell on a different table. If that cell is in a Header row, it will not be included in sorts of the table, so in many cases cell A1 is chosen as 'base' (with row 1 set as a Header row), and offsets are calculated from that cell.
The example below shows results using OFFSET in columns B and C, and INDEX and OFFSET in column D, all of Table 2, to retrieve values from column X of Table 1. The yellow-filled row on Table 2 retrieves the values from the same cell as your =Table 1::X7 formula above. X7 is in the green filled row of Table 1.
The second pair of tables shows duplicates of the same pair of tables. Table 1 in this row has been sorted on the values in column B. Note that what was Row 7 of Table 1 is now Row 4 (although it is still labeled Row 7 in column A). Table 2 has not been sorted. The yellow-filled row is still in the same position and the formula in each of the three cells remains the same as it was in the first version of the table. The value retrieved is from cell X7 on the sorted Table 1.
Formulas (all in Table 2, entered in row 2, then filled down to row 10):
B2: =OFFSET(Table 1 :: $A$1,ROW()-1,23)
C2: =OFFSET(Table 1 :: $X$1,ROW()-1,0)
These two are pretty much the same.
The first uses A1 as the base, and requires a column offset of 23 steps to arrive at column X.
The second uses X1 as the base, and requires a column offset of 0 to remain in column X.
The row offset for both is set by the row in which the formula resides. ROW() returns the row number, from which 1 is subtracted to give an offset from row 1 of one step less than the row number of the formula's position.
D2: =INDEX(OFFSET(Table 1 :: $X$1,0,0,ROWS(Table 1 :: $X)),ROW())
This one uses OFFSET's ability to capture several values in an internal array, triggered here by adding a fourth argument to the function ( ROWS(Table 1::$X) ), to define the row-range as 'all of the rows in column X'. The values are extracted using INDEX.
Although INDEX has its uses, here I think it is redundant, and would use either of the two previous examples.
Regards,
Barry

Need a formula to calulate multiple cells and add the sum total to a cell in a other table

Im a chef and my monthly inventory is a time consuming task. I get invoices from multiple suppliers on each day of the week. I enter them into a spread sheet and then need to add the sum total for all the invoices for say MONDAY. That total needs to be entered into a cell in another table called "daily spend". Is there a formula to automatically add say all the invoices from monday and input the daily spend cell on that table. Here is an example
I created a column B-to give each day a number(sometimes multiple invoices come from the same supplier for each day)<GREEN>..If there was a way to do this differently...Im happy to change the layout of the spreadsheet. I want to add the total $ (column F) for each day together(all the blue fields) and then insert the total into another cell seen in the next table . So in this example its F4+F16+F17=?, ? inserted into N2 of the next table
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"I ve finally has a play with the advice you gave me but I have realized that the formula you gave me is for a week....and like I mentioned in my reply to you, one table is weekly the other is monthly....is there a way to overcome this? (my answer to you explains it)"
Hi Gavin,
Unfortunately, the scale of your illustrations in that reply made them difficult (or impossible) to read, even on the Retina screen.
The first formula, used to fill column B, extracts the Weekday number for each date. Since these numbers should be equivalent to the day of the month, You'll need to replace this with a formula that returns the Day value of each date:
Old:
B2: =WEEKDAY(A,2)
New:
B2: =DAY(A)
Fill down to end of column.
Because of the arrangeent of your Data table, you will need to repeat this formula in column H (with references to column G), etc. for each set of dates in the table.
The SUMIF formula in column F is fine as is, except that it assumes all condition data will be in column B of Data, and all data to be summed will be in column F of Data. Since this is obviously not the case for your Data table, you will need a separate iteration of the formula for each week in the table, with the four SUMIF statements enclosed in a SUM statement:
E2: =SUM(SUMIF(Data :: $B,A2,Data :: $F),SUMIF(Data :: $H,A2,Data :: $L),SUMIF(Data :: $N,A2,Data :: $R),SUMIF(Data :: $T,A2,Data :: $X))
Fill down for as many rows as there are days in the month being summarized.
Column references in the formula assume that six columns are used for each week, and that there is no gap in the table between weeks.
Note that the formula does not distinguish between transactions on July 7 and those on June 7 or August 7. Because of this, the Data table must be limited to transactions in a single calendar month.
Regards,
Barry

Table referenced by more than one other table

I'm no DBA so I was wondering if you could answer this fairly basic question. If I have a table that references more than 1 other table. For example Order links to a customer or Order can link to an Employee how would I represent that in the data model?
I'm guessing I could have the Order table have both an Employee ID and a Customer ID columns and null one or the other out depending on whether it was linked to an Employee or Customer but that seems a bit redundant in that there would always be at least one column being null.
Perhaps I could use table inheritance and just add the relevant foreign key col on the inherited tables but I'm fairly sure you can't have abstract tables.
Thanks for the help.

For example:
table a = Primary_key1, col2, col3
table b = Primary_key1, primary_key2, col3
table c = Primary_key2, col2
To join all this tables you must do something like this:
select ....
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Is there a way to edit, or link to other tables Forms on Numbers?

I was trying to edit a Form in Numbers, and also try to use multiple tables for a Form, and on that same topic, how can I link a cell from a table on a different tab to another table, i also tryed to format a cell as popup menu, and than poin the options on that menu to a cell on a table so it would update it self every time a new cell would be add.. is there any one with ideas how to?

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http://manuals.info.apple.com/en_US/Numbers09_UserGuide.pdf page 127
you can get more focused help on this question in the forum dedicated to Numbers on iOS: https://discussions.apple.com/community/app_store/iwork_for_ios

Using a button and a textfield in the same cell of a table

I have been struggling with this problem for ages, please someone help...
I am trying to implement a table similar to NetBeans property sheet editor where you have a textfield and a button with "..." in the same table cell. The button is used to invoke a custom editor.
I have most things working, custom renderers, custom editors and such.
However, the focus interactions on the table seem completely screwed. Clicking in the editor causes the cell to switch to editing mode as expected. Pressing cursor down or tab, which should close the editor and move focus to the next cell down does not work - the editor closes but the focus disappears to a completely different component elsewhere on my GUI.
My textfield and button are on a JPanel, and I return that JPanel when getTableCellEditorComponent is called.
If I switch out the JPanel and instead return the textfield, the focus works as normal.
I've even looked at the NetBeans source but I can't work out what their trick is.
Any tips would be gratefully received.
TIA.

Thanks for your time, Jeanette...
Here is a bare-bones example of the problem I'm having. I'm running on JDK1.4 and JDK1.3.1_02.
I've tried some tricks (hacks) with getNextFocusableComponent and requestDefautFocus and such but with no success.
import java.awt.*;
import javax.swing.*;
import javax.swing.table.*;
* This example shows a keyboard/focus navigation problem when using a JPanel
* as a table cell editor. The JPanel contains a textfield and a button.
* Click in the editor to invoke it, and tab-off (or press cursor down). The
* edit ends, but the focus disappears rather than moving to the next cell in
* the table.
* Change the line that returns the panel to return a text field instead, and
* all is well.
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public static void main( String[] args )
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public Test()
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    f.setDefaultCloseOperation( JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE );
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    f.setVisible( true );
class TablePanel extends JPanel
    TablePanel()
      setLayout( new BorderLayout() );
      JTable table = new JTable();
      table.setDefaultEditor( Object.class, new MyEditor() );
      table.setModel(
        new DefaultTableModel(
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            {null, null},
            {null, null},
            {null, null},
            {null, null}
          new String[] { "A", "B" } ) );
      add( table, BorderLayout.CENTER );
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      return null;
    public Component getTableCellEditorComponent( JTable table, Object value,
                                                  boolean isSelected,
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    JTextField tf;
    MyEditorPanel()
      setLayout( new BorderLayout() );
      tf = new JTextField();
      add( tf, BorderLayout.CENTER );
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What I would like to do is to click on a cell in a table control, and have the value of the cell be displayed in a string indicator. What ever cell I click on, I would like the value to be displayed in the indicator.
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Solved!
Go to Solution.

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Event >>> ouse down for table.
Use Coords" to feed invoke node "point To Row Column" and returned "Cell Postion" can be unbundled to produce the row and column tht can be used to index out the value.
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Can VLOOKUP, OFFSET, INDEX and MATCH be used to SUM the value of cells from multiple tables?

I have a problem thats needs a sulution. I have a Spreadsheet with multiple sheets and tables. The (Truck ) Sheets each represent a "Site" and the tables within from 1-31 show inventory counts for each day of the month.
Shown below are Edited example's of a "Site" sheet and the Day tables contained within it.
The Spreadsheet expands as a new "Site" (Truck ) is added regularly. Currently there are 30 "Sites" (Trucks).
Also within the spreadsheet is a sheet (Checkpoint) which contains tables used to show summary data for each "Site" sheet. There is one table used to review one site, so currently there are 30 tables identical in format and structure reviewing 30 sites.
An edited example of the summary table for Truck 1 is shown below.
The table's in CP reference data within cells from other sheets. A LEN INDIRECT formula
=IF(LEN(INDIRECT("Truck 1::Day "&COLUMN(cell)−3&"::K53",addr-style))<1,"",INDIRECT("Truck 1::Day "&COLUMN(cell)−3&"::k53",addr-style))
was used to retrieve the values within certain cells. This formula works perfectly because when I add another "Site" I simply need to Dupicate a "Site" Template Sheet and then Copy Paste the LEN INDIRECT formula in to the newly created Summary table.
There is another sheet (Command Central) which contains a Master summary table. The Master Summary sheet is identical in structure to the CP Summary Tables. Its purpose is to show the combined data from the tables within Checkpoint (Truck 1-30). for instance MS::D5=Checkpoint::Truck 1:Truck 30::D5. I realize that Numbers cannot calculate cells within a range of table so I am hoping for a workaround.
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D5=Truck 1::D5,Truck 2::D5,Truck 3::D5...?
When I use that formula type I will have to edit the formula every time I add a new site.
Anothe issue Im having is getting D3:AH3 to show the correct count of names. I am using the following formula:
D3=SUM(COUNTA(Truck 1::D3,Truck 2::D3,Truck 3::D3,Truck 4::D3))−SUM(COUNT(UNION.RANGES(Truck 1::D3,Truck 2::D3,Truck 3::D3,Truck 4::D3)))
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Hello Wayne,
Here are screenshots of the tables in question. The first on is the Master summary table.
Cell D5 shows the value pulled from Checkpoint::Truck 1::D5
Cell E5 shows the value pulled from Checkpoint::Truck 2::D5
Cell F5 shows the value pulled from Checkpoint::Truck 3::D5
Cell G5 shows the value pulled from Checkpoint::Truck 4::D5

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I have LV7.1 Dev Suite. I would like to create a table that I can have drop-down lists in any given cell of the table. Is there a way to do this with the "table" selection in the lists & tables section of the controls palette?
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