Removing Parent Rows in a report

crodts

Hello,

I am trying to create a report that doesn't incorporate the parent rows from multiple sheets.

I have read a lot of suggestions, most involve creating a helper column based on one of these two formulas

=IF(COUNT(CHILDREN([Task Name]@row)) > 0; 
= COUNT(ANCESTORS()) + 1)

however, Smartsheet won't let me make the first one a column formula due to a syntax issue, and the second one just returns #BOOLEAN EXPECTED.

Does anyone have any ideas to correct this, or other methods to ignore parent rows when creating a report?

Matt Johnson

Hi @crodts

Maybe try =COUNT(ANCESTORS()) and then filter off all the 0 values.

I hope that helps.

Matt

crodts

@Matt Johnson thanks for the reply, this is the result I got:

even ignoring the #boolean expected error, it still appears to not be working because the first two rows are parent rows yet one is checked and one isn't.

When I change the column type to text it yields:

which isn't helpful seeing as it gives a variety of numbers that I cannot filter specifically.

crodts

@Matt Johnson thanks for the reply, this is what that yielded (left column being my helper column in checkbox form):

I am not sure how filtering would work here. Disregarding the #boolean expected error, the formula still doesn't appear to work given that the first two rows are both parent rows, yet their checkbox values are different.

I changed the column type to text and this was the result:

which is also not helpful as I am unable to filter by any values seeing as the numbers aren't in a simple pattern.

Any thoughts?

Matt Johnson

What level of "parent" are you trying to filter by? In your example you have (3) levels of parents. Another approach would be to use =COUNT(CHILDREN()) and filter off the 1 values. That might work.