Google-sheets – Have indirect update row when pasted on new rows

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According to this answer, I am fetching data from another sheet over rows:

https://webapps.stackexchange.com/a/24478/29203

The problem for me is as I am fetching over rows, the supplied answer does not work because if I copy the value fetching formula from B1 and past it into C1, D1 and so on, they all display the same values. Because the end of the cell reference is not updated. It's a string, so it wouldn't. Is there anyway to concatenate a "normal" cell reference into this mix, to make this work?

The code in question is

=indirect(A1&"!B2")

So, I am thinking I need to replace the last "!B2" with something that takes a normal cell reference (not string) and converts it into a string. I tried ADDRESS(), but could not get it to work.

Best Answer

This might be correct:

=INDIRECT(datasourcepoint!$A$1&"!A"&ROW(B2))

I am actually fetching the sheet name from another sheet (it just contains the name of the source data sheet to use). The trick was to add &ROW(B2) instead of 2" towards the end.

Related Solutions

Google-sheets – Update the reference in Indirect() when new columns are added

You should mark column AG in some way so it can be identified as the column that indirect needs. For example, by placing "Data" in the first row of that column.

Then you can use match to find the number of that column, which becomes a part of cell reference in R1C1 notation.

=indirect($A$1 & " Data!R3C" & match("Data", 1:1, 0), false)

This formula refers the cell in 3rd row of the column with header "Data", on the sheet specified in cell A1.

Google-sheets – Dynamic updating referenced cell from another workbook after adding/deleting rows using IMPORTRANGE – use ARRAY or VLOOKUP

this can be achieved by adding an extra column far away, where it can be hidden and then populating this column by joining desired set of cells by unique separator until split will occur on the second spreadsheet. note that:

adding or deleting rows will not affect dynamicity of IMPORTRANGE
adding deleting columns will break all imported data
there is no need for an extra column if there is a unique separator per every IMPORTRANGE of data and the search is applied always to such unique separator

in this particular case, there was used column AG from which IMPORTRANGE was fed.

in Spreadsheet1 in Sheet1!AG (no matter of row number) there are formulas which JOIN content of L50 and M50 as well as the content of L51 and M51, etc... (no matter if it's done directly or indirectly as far as the output is TEXT):

=JOIN("¤"; L50; MIN(FILTER(L:L; ISNUMBER(SEARCH("*banana*"; P:P))     
                               +ISNUMBER(SEARCH("*banana*"; Q:Q))
                               +ISNUMBER(SEARCH("*banana*"; R:R)))))

outputing: next banana¤30-Aug-2004

=JOIN("¤"; L51; MIN(FILTER(L:L; ISNUMBER(SEARCH("*orange*"; P:P))     
                               +ISNUMBER(SEARCH("*orange*"; Q:Q))
                               +ISNUMBER(SEARCH("*orange*"; R:R)))))

outputing: next orange¤2-Oct-2003

=JOIN("♥"; L52; AVERAGE(FILTER(L:L; ISNUMBER(SEARCH("orange"; P:P))
                                   +ISNUMBER(SEARCH("orange"; Q:Q))
                                   +ISNUMBER(SEARCH("orange"; R:R)))))

outputing: X♥25-Sep-2013

=JOIN("♀"; L53; MIN(FILTER(L5:L48; ISNUMBER(SEARCH("*banana*"; Q5:Q48))
                                  *ISNUMBER(SEARCH("open";     R5:R48)))))

outputing: next banana♀20-Aug-2000

=JOIN("♂"; L54; AVERAGEIFS(M5:M48; R5:R48; "open", 
                                   Q5:Q48; "*banana*"))

outputing: avg days open (banana)♂74.41

=JOIN("♪"; L55; Q50/Q51)

outputing: util♪0.370544987

=JOIN("♫"; L56; MINIFS(M5:M48; R5:R48; "open", 
                               Q5:Q48; "*banana*"))

outputing: newest (mo)♫3.48

=JOIN("¤"; L57; M56*30.5)

outputing: newest(days)¤106.2580645

=JOIN("♤"; L58; M58)

outputing: avg LMT♤25051.35484

at this point, it doesn't matter if the format of joined cells is outputting elsehow (eg. 2nd part of the output should be formatted as $, %, mm/dd/yyyy) because in Spreadsheet2 after splitting you can format it back as you wish

in Spreadsheet2 you are free to paste following formula at any column and any row as well as you are free to:

add or delete any rows in Spreadsheet1
and add or delete any rows or columns in Spreadsheet2

 =SPLIT(
        ARRAY_CONSTRAIN(
                        QUERY(


        IMPORTRANGE("13evadbMLzvQVSGbYssn_0deFdcmb5l3sqpeFgcNTjOY"; "'Sheet1'!AG1:AG1000");

        "select Col1 where Col1 ='"&
        FILTER(

        IMPORTRANGE("13evadbMLzvQVSGbYssn_0deFdcmb5l3sqpeFgcNTjOY"; "'Sheet1'!AG1:AG1000");

                   ISNUMBER(
                            SEARCH("banana";

        IMPORTRANGE("13evadbMLzvQVSGbYssn_0deFdcmb5l3sqpeFgcNTjOY"; "'Sheet1'!AG1:AG1000"))

                   ))
                                    &"'"); 
                        1; 1); 
       "¤"; 1; 0)

this basically SEARCHes for text value "banana" in Spreadsheet1 under Sheet1 from range AG1:AG1000 and feed it to the FILTER which feeds criterion of QUERY which is ARRAY_CONSTRAINed to return one entry and that entry is SPLIT after unique separator "¤" (used earlier in JOIN) into two columns at the same row. and that's it.

if the content of cell L50 is static like banana and also unique per column you can SEARCH for "banana" otherwise you need to use unique separator per column and SEARCH for such separator instead of "banana"

for a successful linkup, you need to be sure that separator in SPLIT matches separator in JOIN ("¤"). you can use any symbol you wish as the separator (http://www.i2symbol.com/symbols)

example: for formula =JOIN("♤"; L58; M58) you can use:

 =SPLIT(
        ARRAY_CONSTRAIN(
                        QUERY(


        IMPORTRANGE("13evadbMLzvQVSGbYssn_0deFdcmb5l3sqpeFgcNTjOY"; "'Sheet1'!AG1:AG1000");

        "select Col1 where Col1 ='"&
        FILTER(

        IMPORTRANGE("13evadbMLzvQVSGbYssn_0deFdcmb5l3sqpeFgcNTjOY"; "'Sheet1'!AG1:AG1000");

                   ISNUMBER(
                            SEARCH("lmt";

        IMPORTRANGE("13evadbMLzvQVSGbYssn_0deFdcmb5l3sqpeFgcNTjOY"; "'Sheet1'!AG1:AG1000"))

                   ))
                                    &"'"); 
                        1; 1); 
       "♤"; 1; 0)

 =SPLIT(
        ARRAY_CONSTRAIN(
                        QUERY(


        IMPORTRANGE("13evadbMLzvQVSGbYssn_0deFdcmb5l3sqpeFgcNTjOY"; "'Sheet1'!AG1:AG1000");

        "select Col1 where Col1 ='"&
        FILTER(

        IMPORTRANGE("13evadbMLzvQVSGbYssn_0deFdcmb5l3sqpeFgcNTjOY"; "'Sheet1'!AG1:AG1000");

                   ISNUMBER(
                            SEARCH("♤";

        IMPORTRANGE("13evadbMLzvQVSGbYssn_0deFdcmb5l3sqpeFgcNTjOY"; "'Sheet1'!AG1:AG1000"))

                   ))
                                    &"'"); 
                        1; 1); 
       "♤"; 1; 0)

 =SPLIT(
        ARRAY_CONSTRAIN(
                        QUERY(


        IMPORTRANGE("13evadbMLzvQVSGbYssn_0deFdcmb5l3sqpeFgcNTjOY"; "'Sheet1'!AG1:AG1000");

        "select Col1 where Col1 ='"&
        FILTER(

        IMPORTRANGE("13evadbMLzvQVSGbYssn_0deFdcmb5l3sqpeFgcNTjOY"; "'Sheet1'!AG1:AG1000");

                   ISNUMBER(
                            SEARCH("avg LMT";

        IMPORTRANGE("13evadbMLzvQVSGbYssn_0deFdcmb5l3sqpeFgcNTjOY"; "'Sheet1'!AG1:AG1000"))

                   ))
                                    &"'"); 
                        1; 1); 
       "♤"; 1; 0)

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Related Solutions

Google-sheets – Update the reference in Indirect() when new columns are added

Google-sheets – Dynamic updating referenced cell from another workbook after adding/deleting rows using IMPORTRANGE – use ARRAY or VLOOKUP

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