sum hours from a column, if grandchild row in another column has specific text

tlawrence17

So I've been tasked with creating a timesheet for our consultant agency by quarter, so each sheet will cover three months, why it has to be in Smartsheet I'm not sure.

Context

Each day, employees have three types of projects they can be working on: "Proj1", "Proj2", "Proj3".

I need a formula that will add up all the project hours for the month of January.

In the dummy data from the image, you can see there were 21 hours total worked in January. I need to figure out how many of them were on Proj1 (should be 5).

Formula

However I can't seem to find a formula that works for this.

I came close with this formula: =SUMIF(Primary:Primary, "Proj1", Hours:Hours)

It works until hours from February are added, then they end up being included. I need to find a way to search the grandchildren rows of the January parent, where the project types are listed for say, "Proj1" and add those hours.

I'm thinking something like: =SUMIF(CHILDREN(Primary2), FIND("gUP"), Hours:Hours) but I know I'm getting it wrong.

 

Genevieve P.

Would it be possible to adjust the organization of the sheet? For example, if there will only ever be the three projects worked on, could these be column names instead of repeated "grandchildren" rows, which would make it quite simple to calculate the correct data.

In this instance, the parent row with January could rollup a total for each project with the SUM(CHILDREN() function. You could have a "Total Hours" column with the three projects added together for that specific day, too.

This would have a formula to add up the three project hours for that day, such as

 

=SUM([Project 1]@row:[Project 3]@row)

 

Let me know if this would work for you.

Cheers,

Genevieve