Data slicer
To help you slice parts of data, we provide the OBB.GET function. This function allows to slice rows, columns or range subsets. It is useful to extract specific fields from the OBB. custom functions. Data can be sliced by label or index.
Example
- Suppose you called an
OBB.function and it returned the following data at cells A1:D3:
| period_ending | revenue | cost_of_revenue | gross_profit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023/09/30 | 383 285 000 000.00 | 214 137 000 000.00 | 169 148 000 000.00 | |
| 2022/09/24 | 394 328 000 000.00 | 223 546 000 000.00 | 170 782 000 000.00 | |
| 2021/09/25 | 365 817 000 000.00 | 212 981 000 000.00 | 152 836 000 000.00 |
- Slicing a single row:
=OBB.GET(A1:D3,DATE(2023,9,30))
note
When passing date labels make sure to use the format YYYY/MM/DD or refer to a cell range containing Excel date format - DATE(year,month,day).
- Slicing a single column:
=OBB.GET(A1:D3,,"revenue")
- Slicing by index:
=OBB.GET(A1:D3,2,3)
tip
To slice the from the last row use negative numbers. For example, =OBB.GET(A1:D3,-1,-2) will return the last row and the second to last column.
- Slicing multiple rows and columns:
=OBB.GET(A1:D3,{"2023/09/30","2021/09/25"},{"cost_of_revenue","gross_profit"})
tip
The easiest way to pass ranges is to write them into cells and reference them in the function. For example, =OBB.GET(...,A1:A2) where A1 contains "item1", A2 "item2".