You won't be able to use a User Defined Function in a pivot table's
calculated field.

Thomas Mueller wrote:
> Jep, first formula works correctly, thx! But I'd like to have something like
> a pivot field - gives the clients the possibility to add this field to the
> pivot table with drag'n'drop - without a "hack".
>
> I'll write a User Defined Function and put it in a calculated field, the
> only way to solve this problem (in my eyes).
> A lot of people have been having this problem for years - but there is no
> Excel built-in function... Looks like nobody of the Excel Dev Team cares
> about...
>
> Thx, Thomas
>
>
> "Gary76" <Gary76@discussions.microsoft.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
> news:15B3AA88-005F-4929-8402-8D32FEE7A393@microsoft.com...
>
>>How about something like:
>>
>>=SUMPRODUCT(1/COUNTIF(Data!$A$2:$A$24,Data!$A$2:$A$24)*(Data!$B$2:$B$24=Pivot!B6))
>>
>>in E6 (copied down), and something like:
>>
>>=COUNTIF(Data!$C$2:$C$24,Pivot!G7)
>>
>>in J7 (copied down)
>>
>>HTH
>>
>>"Thomas Mueller" wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>I've some problems to count unique items (Invoice #) in a pivot table.
>>>There
>>>is the default solution "Add-a-new-calculated-column" as mentioned on
>>>http://contextures.com/xlPivot07.html#Unique, but in my case, it doesn't
>>>works.
>>>
>>>My problem is, that these values aren't in a Excel worksheet; it's a
>>>external data source - a SQL-Select via DAO/ADO. Because of that, I don't
>>>have the possibility to add a new column. Another reason is, that the
>>>pivot
>>>table should always be dynamic: Group over this field, group over another
>>>field - and always show the number of unique invoices, not the sum of
>>>data
>>>rows (please take a look at the Excel sheet:
>>>http://e-tom.ch/Count_Unique_Invoice_No.xls).
>>>
>>>Thx, Thomas
>>>
>>>(or is there an easy way to write an User Definied Function and access to
>>>the data rows in each pivot table group?)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>
>


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