I have a Google Sheets contact list for a multicampus boarding school. The sheet at present summarizes the contact info for each person into the first 4 cells of the row. Entry is made using the rest of the columns. This overall makes editing and sorting far easier.
The kind of thing I would like to do:
A: Only the summary columns are visible.
B: No user can edit data in the embedded web page version.
C: Users can sort and filter on columns that they cannot see.
For example, the first summary column contains this:
Juan Francisco Alvarez
2140 AG01
Decoded, besides the name, it says that he had laundry number 2140, he was last at the Anytown campus in 2001, and that he graduated.
I want users to be able to do things like:
Show me all the grads of O1, sorted by laundry number. (Students that started the same year as Juan will all be in a consecutive block of laundry numbers)
So for this I want to sort by laundry number, without laundry number being a visible column.
Show me all the students who may have overlapped with me (class of 96 to 2006) and who have last known addresses in British Columbia.
I want to sort by cohort year (the year they would have graduated, had they finished) filter by 96 to 2006, filter by the presence of BC in the City/Prov column.
Who has died? (There is a Deceased in Notes for these)
Hide the other campuses. I'm only interested in Mudville (M)
So far in named views I seem to be able to filter or sort on one thing, and one thing only.