So I have an issue I cannot wrap my brain around. I am creating an employee vacation tracker, and I have already multiple sheets with different data, i.e. one consists of Google Form answers about when the employee wants to take time off work for holidays. Please note that I also already have data on employee availability each standard day of the workweek.
Alright, onto the problem. Let's say 'Lukas' is a part-time employee and only works Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. He sends in his vacation plan: he will be enjoying the seaside from 1.8. until 15.8. How on earth can I combine multiple sheets and data in such a way, to only count his holidays by his actual workdays? I can not even begin to write the formula - this is where I should note I am a beginner at Sheets.
CodePudding user response：
I think I understand what you're aiming for, but your description is a little vague.
If I'm correct, you'd like to achieve the following:
- Combine the data from two different data sources, being; a. A sheet with the weekly employee's availability. b. The Output from the Google Form containing (additional) holiday requests.
- Compare this data with the working schedules.
- Only account for the days where holiday requests / unavailable days overlap with scheduled working days.
Can you let me know if I'm correct? If so, I can try to help you into the right direction.
CodePudding user response：
Alright - I took a look at your mock-up sheet, I must admit it's still felt somewhat unorganized.
Due to the lack of enough dummy data and without being certain whether or not you empty/refresh the weekly availability tabs (I'd recommend you not to do so), it wasn't fully clear what you wanted.
Nonetheless, I couldn't resist, I've been working on several projects and your topic gave me some creative inspiration, so I went ahead and did a major rebuild in your mock-sheet.
Should you want to use or implement it, here's some info good to know:
The Employees tab is meant as an input field for any coming and going employees; just add any names there and they will be automatically added to the main schedule.
I mocked some more data, so the output might not be what you expected, but; In the Holiday overview tab you can see all employees with the days they've taken, planned, and left.
In the Schedule Dashboard tab, you will find three main sections.
- The working schedule based on the data from the Weekly Availability tab of which I guess you manually move over data to from the Availability Responses tab.
- The Holiday schedule; this fully takes into account whether or not it overlaps with a supposed working day, or if the person was off already anyhow. Therefore; Holiday is shown when it overlaps with a scheduled working day and Day Off is shown when it doesn't. Only the Holidays are deducting the remaining holidays.
- The right one I did based on my own experiences; it works like an alerting sign that whill show you if holidays are approved while still being scheduled, where I work we do this the other way around. Holiday Request > We unschedule > We approve holidays > No overlaps should exist.
I posted some comments in the sheet here and there on orange tiles.
Curious to know if this helped!