Can anyone please help me in developing a a single/same formula in "C" that
could count the total linked cells. Lets take an example, "A" represents
Executives, "B" represents their Heads and "C" should be reflecting the span
of total control over the staff strength:

A B C
P - 17 (4 VPs, 6 AVPs, 6 Officers & 1 Asst.)
VP1 P 9 (3 AVPs, 5 Officers & 1 Asst.)
VP2 P 3 (2 AVPs & 1 Officer)
VP3 P 1 (1 AVP)
VP4 P 0 (No subordinate)
AVP1 VP1 3 (2 Officers & 1 Asst.)
AVP2 VP1 2 (2 Officers)
AVP3 VP1 1 (1 Officer)
AVP4 VP2 1 (1 Officer)
AVP5 VP2 0 (No subordinate)
AVP6 VP3 0 (No subordinate)
Officer1 AVP1 1 (1 Asst.)
Officer2 AVP1 0
Officer3 AVP2 0
Officer4 AVP2 0
Officer5 AVP3 0
Officer6 AVP4 0
Asst.1 Officer1 0

Please Urgent Help is required!

Kindly, note that the rows may be in any order.

This sort of problem is discussed frequently in the SQL Server/Transact SQL
newsgroup, because it is non-trivial and requires recursive routines that
traverse the hierarchy tree and execute queries at eachnode. As such, it is
something far better handled by a database.

You may want to look at this link for a generic description of what's
required in SQL

http://www.vbmysql.com/articles/data...data-in-mysql/

"FARAZ QURESHI" wrote:

Can anyone please help me in developing a a single/same formula in "C" that
could count the total linked cells. Lets take an example, "A" represents
Executives, "B" represents their Heads and "C" should be reflecting the span
of total control over the staff strength:

A B C
P - 17 (4 VPs, 6 AVPs, 6 Officers & 1 Asst.)
VP1 P 9 (3 AVPs, 5 Officers & 1 Asst.)
VP2 P 3 (2 AVPs & 1 Officer)
VP3 P 1 (1 AVP)
VP4 P 0 (No subordinate)
AVP1 VP1 3 (2 Officers & 1 Asst.)
AVP2 VP1 2 (2 Officers)
AVP3 VP1 1 (1 Officer)
AVP4 VP2 1 (1 Officer)
AVP5 VP2 0 (No subordinate)
AVP6 VP3 0 (No subordinate)
Officer1 AVP1 1 (1 Asst.)
Officer2 AVP1 0
Officer3 AVP2 0
Officer4 AVP2 0
Officer5 AVP3 0
Officer6 AVP4 0
Asst.1 Officer1 0

Please Urgent Help is required!

Kindly, note that the rows may be in any order.

As an alternative to SQL, but requiring a fair amount of coding in VBA or
perhaps VB Express, would be to use your data to populate a Windows Treeview
control, then use the Treeview's methods to count the nodes subordinate to
each node in your table.

Any way you look at this, it is a somewhat complicated task


"FARAZ QURESHI" wrote:

Can anyone please help me in developing a a single/same formula in "C" that
could count the total linked cells. Lets take an example, "A" represents
Executives, "B" represents their Heads and "C" should be reflecting the span
of total control over the staff strength:

A B C
P - 17 (4 VPs, 6 AVPs, 6 Officers & 1 Asst.)
VP1 P 9 (3 AVPs, 5 Officers & 1 Asst.)
VP2 P 3 (2 AVPs & 1 Officer)
VP3 P 1 (1 AVP)
VP4 P 0 (No subordinate)
AVP1 VP1 3 (2 Officers & 1 Asst.)
AVP2 VP1 2 (2 Officers)
AVP3 VP1 1 (1 Officer)
AVP4 VP2 1 (1 Officer)
AVP5 VP2 0 (No subordinate)
AVP6 VP3 0 (No subordinate)
Officer1 AVP1 1 (1 Asst.)
Officer2 AVP1 0
Officer3 AVP2 0
Officer4 AVP2 0
Officer5 AVP3 0
Officer6 AVP4 0
Asst.1 Officer1 0

Please Urgent Help is required!

Kindly, note that the rows may be in any order.