Finding date in a child when other children are not always dates

I have a parent row that I am trying to use to summarise the Children rows.
One column is a date called CloseDate.
Rows are added every week, that create in effect a weekly record and the CloseDate is set to the word Active until the entry the week that it is closed and then a date is added. The row is not always at the top or bottom of the Children.
I would like the CloseDate in the Parent row to show Active until there is a row with a date in the CloseDate of one of the Children, then it should show the date in the child's CloseDate.
See the picture attached to see what I mean. The green cell is the parent and that is where it should show either Active or the date in the child row.
I have also considered using a column next to the CloseDate to set a flag using the IsDate() to set the checkbox but cannot work out how to use that to find the CloseDate as using VLOOOKUP as CHILDREN(CloseDate@row) does not seem to work for setting ranges.
I appreciate any assistance with this.
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I usedΒ =MAX(CHILDREN()) and that seems to have worked, sometimes the simplest things work best.
Complete script isΒ =IF(NOT(ISDATE(MAX(CHILDREN()))), "Active", MAX(CHILDREN()))
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Hi Frank,
Nicely done and yes, sometimes it's the simplest solution that's the best!Β
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Thanks for sharing!
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