Im using VBA to program a function in excel that will search a list looking for certain names, count when certain sought for names come up and then output these counter values to individual cells.
How do I allocate the values to the function itself when I have a multi cell function? Ive chosen 4 cells next to each other in the same column and pressed CTRL-SHFT-ENTER to get a multi cell function I just dont know how to allocate results to the function so that it will show in the selected cells. What I've done so far is shown below:
Function ROM(ByVal lookup_value As Range, _
ByVal lookup_column As Range, _
ByVal return_value_column As Long) As String
Application.ScreenUpdating = False
Dim i As Long
Dim resultCount As Long
Dim resultsArray() As String
Dim arraySize As Long
Dim myrange As Range
Dim results As String
Dim TSS As Long
Dim OSS As Long
Dim AWS As Long
Dim JLI As Long
Dim answers(1 To 3, 1 To 1) As Variant
' The following code works out how many matches there are for the lookup and creates an
' array of the same size to hold these results
Set myrange = lookup_column
arraySize = Application.WorksheetFunction.CountIf(myrange, lookup_value.Value)
ReDim resultsArray(arraySize - 1)
' A counter for the results
resultCount = 0
TSS = 0
OSS = 0
AWS = 0
JLI = 0
' The equipment ID column is looped through and for every match the corresponding Equipment Type is
' saved into the resultsArray for analysis
For i = 1 To lookup_column.Rows.count
If Len(lookup_column(i, 1).Text) <> 0 Then
If lookup_column(i, 1).Text = lookup_value.Value Then
' If statement to ensure that the function doesnt cycle to a number larger than the
' size of resultsArray
If (resultCount < (arraySize)) Then
resultsArray(resultCount) = (lookup_column(i).Offset(0, return_value_column).Text)
results = (lookup_column(i).Offset(0, return_value_column).Text)
resultCount = resultCount + 1
' The following code compares the string to preset values and increments
' the counters if any are found in the string
If (InStr(results, "TPWS TSS") > 0) Then
TSS = TSS + 1
ElseIf (InStr(results, "TPWS OSS")) Then
OSS = OSS + 1
ElseIf (InStr(results, "JUNCTION INDICATOR (1 Route)") > 0) Then
JLI = JLI + 1
ElseIf (InStr(results, "AWS")) Then
AWS = AWS + 1
End If
End If
End If
End If
Next
answers(1, 1) = TSS
answers(1, 2) = OSS
answers(1, 3) = AWS
answers(1, 4) = 0
ROM = answers
Application.ScreenUpdating = True
End Function
When I try running the function it keeps saying type mismatch for answers. The cells selected for the multi cell formula are F18, G18, H18 and I18.