mother cell status

Abdel Atia

Hello everybody

 I'm looking for a formula for a parent cell status with a set of children rows

The status of the mother cell should be green if all children are green.

It must be gray if all the children are gray

It must be yellow if at least one of the children is yellow or gray…

the formula must give the expected results as in the attached image

Thank you in advance for your help

Jeff K.

Use an IF statement with the Children statement in the formula?

Abdel Atia

how can I do that ? 

Thanks 

Jeff K.

See:

https://community.smartsheet.com/discussion/ryg-balls-changing-children-rows

Jeff K.

See:

https://community.smartsheet.com/discussion/ryg-balls-changing-children-rows

Robert S.

Hello Abdel,

 

Thanks for the question. Jeff K is correct that this can be accomplished using a nested IF formula and the CHILDREN() function, however it can be a little difficult to get it fully written out to do everything you'd like. The trick to nested IF formulas, is that these formulas will stop and give the result for the first true statement, going from left to right. Here's how this formula can be written to meet all of the criteria it looks like you're looking for:

 

=IF(COUNTIF(CHILDREN(), "Red") > 0, "Red", IF(AND(COUNTIF(CHILDREN(), <>"-") = COUNTIF(CHILDREN(), "Gray"), COUNTIF(CHILDREN(), <>"-") <> 0), "Gray", IF(OR(COUNTIF(CHILDREN(), "Yellow") > 0, COUNTIF(CHILDREN(), "Gray") > 0), "Yellow", IF(COUNT(CHILDREN()) = COUNTIF(CHILDREN(), "-"), "-", IF(COUNTIF(CHILDREN(), <>"-") = COUNTIF(CHILDREN(), "Green"), "Green")))))

 

This formula can be placed in every parent row in the status column. To learn more on nested IF formulas, here's a blog post with more about this (https://www.smartsheet.com/blog/support-tip-build-nested-IF). To learn more about the different functions used in this formula, here's our functions list help center article (https://help.smartsheet.com/functions).

Abdel Atia

Thank you Robert !!