@mattenvsys

You can compare any cell from any sheet to any cell from any sheet based on any criteria one can come up with, basically.

How you would do that kind of depends on the structure of the data. (maybe the structure from 2011 set is not same as 2017, but the data content is etc.)

" spreadsheet with habitat classes on row 1 and column A.' sounds like a cross table. So you should be able to identify any cell by its habitat class combination across the sheets.

Cell in a cross table can be accessed by 2 mergers after separating 1st column and first row from data, exploding the data.

Sample data would facilitate sample workbench.

Hi Gio,

Thanks for replying. I have uploaded a zipfile containing a sample shapefile and an extract of a spreadsheet.

In the shapefile, values in the field 'HAB2011' match those of row 1 in the spreadsheet. 'HAB2017' matches the values in column A.

I'm looking for a way to append a new field in the shapefile populated with either "compatible" or "not compatible" based on the combination of classes.

Hab_Test.zip

@gio

Hi, I didn't tag you in my previous reply so I was unsure if you noticed it.

Here's the sample data.

In the shapefile, values in the field 'HAB2011' match those of row 1 in the spreadsheet. 'HAB2017' matches the values in column A.

I'm looking for a way to append a new field in the shapefile populated with either "compatible" or "not compatible" based on the combination of classes.

Hab_Test.zip

@mattenvsys

Hi,

Here is a workbench applying the "cross table".

Crosstable_variant.fmw

and a pic, in case upload fails.

@gio

I finally got round to running this on the real data. I used your annotated picture to recreate the workbench as the initial downloaded didn't work.

Thanks for taking the time to create this for me. It worked really well