Q: Help with drop down menus
Hello
I'm making a crocery list spreadsheet in Numbers and I have some nice ideas. I just began working with numbers and had never used programs like excel for over 3 years.
I have 6 rows and 2 sheets in my document
Rows: 1a-Kind of shop 2b-Priority 3c-Product description 4d-Quantity 5e-Max prices 6f-Total of the quantity of the product
Sheets: A-Grocery list B-Database
1a: Dropdown menu - /Supermarket/PetShop/ToolShop/Bakkery/ElectroShop/
2b: Rating cell
3c: Dropdown menu - Variable lists
4d: Stepcounter cell - Goes up and down by quantity of "1"
5e: Value cell
6f: Value cell - 4d*5e
What I want it to do is (Numberlist = The steps that you have to take / Sublist = Information on what happens when the action is done):
As example I'm going to enlist some products into my spreadsheet for the "PetShop" and at the end of my post I'm going to list up the different tables in de Database sheet and their values.
1: You choose your Kind of shop "1a" for example PetShop
* Cells in collum 3c show dropdown menu with data from "PetShopProductList" in Database sheet
2: In collum 3c you choose a product "ex.: Dog Biscuits" from the dropdown menu
* Cells in 5e collum retrieve data from "PetShopProductList" in Database sheet and show the price for the right product
3: Choose the priority from the 5 star selector, in collum 2b, for your product, if its urgent 5 stars, if not 1
4: Choose your quantity in collum 4d
* The price from collum 5e multiplies with the quantity from collum 4d and shows in collum 6f
The thing now is, I use the PetShop as an example but here's the thing I'm stuck on:
- when your grocery list is finished, and you choose a different Kind of shop in 1a, I want the collum cells from 3c(below the previous list of PetShop) to show data in a dropdown menu retrieving data from another table in sheet Database.
For example:
- My PetShop list is finished and I choose "Bakkery" in "1a"
- Collum 3c shows a dropdown menu with data from "BakkeryProductList" instead of the one from the PetShop
- Also the previous dropdown menu's above, from the PetShop list, may not be deleted, the entered data must remain.
Thank you in advance
MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X El Capitan (10.11.3)
Posted on Mar 2, 2016 1:18 AM