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Counting Check Boxes
I'm trying to get a formula to count the number of Check Boxes that are checked in all the Children rows under a Parent row.
When using ="Count:" + COUNTIF(CHILDREN(), 1), which is one of the formula examples I'll get this Count: 2
All I'm looking for is the number so I tried =COUNTIF(CHILDREN(), 1) but it doesn't work. All I get back is #1 or 0 EXPECTED.
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
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MVigrass,
Click on a cell to see the formula
https://app.smartsheet.com/b/publish?EQBCT=636085f90ff64e05910d078bf2191f60
This is definitely doable.
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Thanks for that. I was looking at that type of formula too, but was hoping to be able to do the count within the same column at the parent level to keep things simple.
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MVigrass, when you add a formula to a checkbox cell, the cell is expecting a 1 or 0 as a result (1 = checked 0= unchecked) if the result is a number. Your first formula worked because the result was formatted as as text string and not a number (because you had "Count:" +). Use this trick to format the result as a text string but show only the number in the parent row:
=COUNTIF(CHILDREN(), 1) + ""
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Thanks Travis. This is the trick I've been looking for.
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