Hi everybody,
I wasn't able to find the answer. I'm sorry, but maybe you can help.
This is what I'm trying to do:
I have a Sharepoint log file, where I tick check boxes and enter data. To make it simple, let's compare it to a market and fruits:
I would have the following values:
ID, automatically generated
Customer, entered manually
Product: Bananas, Apples, Oranges important here is, these are multiple checkboxes because a customer might buy more than one product
Country, where is the customer from, only one value per customer
While I can view this data in the Sharepoint file quite good, once I export it to Excel I struggle.
In Sharepoint I can filter for Bananas, and it will show me all customers who bought a banana independently if they bought something else too.
Once exported to Excel I only get customers that bought only Bananas, the others will be listed as Banana#;Apples or Banana#;Oranges or even Banana#;Apples#;Oranges.
Now I want to make a table with the countries and the Products, but obviously I only want 3 Product columns then instead of all combinations.
It would look something like this:
ID Country Product
1USBanana
2USApple
3UKBanana#;Apple
4UKBanana#;Orange
If I now try to make some nice looking tables to use for visualizing data, I can filter for countries:
US would look like
Banana 1, Apple 1
However, UK would look like
Banana#;Apple 1
Banana#;Orange 1
but I want
Banana 2
Apple 1
Orange 1
I tried to work around that in the logging file, by changing the question "Product" from multiple check boxes into many questions:
"Banana yes/no"
"Apple yes/no"
"Oranges yes/no"
With that I can have a look at the products, to see which countries are most interested in them.
However, if I select more than one product in the labels, it just refines the data by "what ID fulfills Bananas and Apples" or it gives me a TRUE/FALSE table, which isn't really helpfull either.
Any idea guys?
Thanks a lot!