Ignore Summary Task When Counting Late Tasks

I use the formula when counting late tasks: =IF(ISBLANK(Finish107), "", IF(AND(TODAY() > Finish107, [% Complete]107 < 1), 1, ""))

The issue with this is that it also counts summary tasks which really aren't tasks themselves. Is there a way to ignore summary tasks so I don't have to manually delete the formula in the cell in the Late Task column?

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Mike Wilday

You could use the Children Function to only include children in the column.

https://help.smartsheet.com/function/children

brandon.elmer

That makes sense. Would I take out the ISBLANK and replace with Children? How would I start the formula?

Mike Wilday

Try this, I have not written a lot of formulas counting children, but this might work. Try putting it in your parent row, and then sum that column to get a total count.

=Countifs(Children(), (TODAY() > Finish107, Children(), [% Complete]107 < 1)

Todd Smelser

How would you Count the total tasks in a Column and still ignore the Summary Tasks? In this formula, I only get a single child in the first row.

=COUNT(CHILDREN({Avanade Onboarding Tasks Range 4}))

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