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    Question cascading dropdown with 2 values to prepopulate (also in Quip)

    Hi all,

    My name is Monika from Germany. I am hoping someone can help with a formula and possibly with Quip conversion.

    I have created a cascading dropdown in Excel on sheet Selection. It reads from sheet DD. I have 2 issues:

    1) On two occasions, there is only one sub-selection possible, so I would like to adjust the formula, that if the selection is made, it prepopulates the corresponding value in column M, i.e., when "N/A (comment)" is selected in column L, "N/A (comment)" is automatically filled in in column M. I tried a bunch of IFS and IF(ANDs but everything fails.

    2) When it works, is there a way to put that into a Quip? The formula that works in Excel, isn't recognized in Quip. Maybe other functions would accomplish that? Quip seems very limited.

    Any help would be much appreciated.
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    Re: cascading dropdown with 2 values to prepopulate (also in Quip)

    Hello. What is Quip please?

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    Quip is a practically useless, washed down version of Excel from Salesforce with a limited number of functions.

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    Re: cascading dropdown with 2 values to prepopulate (also in Quip)

    I am guessing that quip supports some of the older Excel functions like OFFSET, MATCH, and SUMPRODUCT.
    If that is the case then perhaps this will help:
    1. Produce a column that lists the question for each answer as displayed in column C on the DD sheet
    2. Use the following formula to produce the drop downs: =OFFSET(DD!C$1,MATCH(L2,DD!C$2:C$19,0),1,SUMPRODUCT(--(DD!C$2:C$19=L2)),1)
    If this is not working, then giving us a list of quip functions would be helpful
    Let us know if you have any questions.
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    Re: cascading dropdown with 2 values to prepopulate (also in Quip)

    Hi, OFFSET and INDIRECT aren't support but INDEX and MATCH are. I tried variations of it but none worked. I can't paste links here, does this work? https://help.salesforce.com/s/articl...0389291&type=1. Eternally grateful. Monika
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    Re: cascading dropdown with 2 values to prepopulate (also in Quip)

    According to the URL quip supports the FILTER function, so one would think that you could simply use FILTER directly in the source formula for the drop downs, but apparently not.
    On the DD sheet six helper columns (F:K) are added which all have headers populated using: =INDEX(Selection!$L2:$L7,COLUMNS($F1:F1))
    The second row in each column is populated using: =FILTER($D2:$D19,$C2:$C19=F1)
    The drop downs on the Selection sheet have sources similar to: =DD!F2#
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    Re: cascading dropdown with 2 values to prepopulate (also in Quip)

    Hi Jete, I am making progress and =INDEX(Selection!$L2:$L7,COLUMNS($F2:F2)) works for the headers. =FILTER($A2:$A19,$A2:$A19) works for list on the DD sheet. But when I put =FILTER($A2:$A19,$A2:$A19=F1) quip throws an error. I got to get back to work now, but I will try to make that work in Excel so I can upload a new doc for verification, ok? Many many thanks.

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