IF function conditioned on a PARENT

Jennifer Flanagan

What is a formula to count in a sheet summary the number of completed CHILDREN tasks per PARENT. For example, I wanted to count the number of competed tasks that fall under the parent of Business Development. I tried the following formula, but it did not work...For more context: The column called "Task Name" lists tasks fall into different PARENTS categories - the first of which is business development. The Status column marks if tasks are "Complete" or "In Progress" or "Not Started"

=COUNTIFS(Task Name:Task Name, PARENT([Busines Development]), Status:Status, "Complete")

Andrée Starå

Hi @Jennifer Flanagan

Try something like this.

=COUNTIFS(CHILDREN([Task Name]50); <>""; CHILDREN(Status50); "Complete")

The same version but with the below changes for convenience.

=COUNTIFS(CHILDREN([Task Name]50), <>"", CHILDREN(Status50), "Complete")

Depending on your country/region, you'll need to exchange the comma to a period and the semi-colon to a comma.

Did that work?

I hope that helps!

Be safe and have a fantastic week!

Best,

Andrée Starå

Workflow Consultant / CEO @ WORK BOLD

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Jennifer Flanagan

Thanks for your help @Andrée Starå - however that did not work. It returned 0 - what i am trying to do count the number of tasks under the parent tasks of "Business Development" that are complete.

Andrée Starå

@Jennifer Flanagan

Happy to help!

Can you paste the exact formula you tried?

Jennifer Flanagan

HI - can you see the attached screenshot above? Its on the right. I used =COUNTIFS(CHILDREN([Task Name]50), <>"Business Development", CHILDREN(Status50), "Complete")

Andrée Starå

@Jennifer Flanagan

Try this one and change the number 50 to your row number.

=COUNTIFS(CHILDREN([Task Name]50), <>"", CHILDREN(Status50), "Complete")

Did that work?

Jennifer Flanagan

Yes - thank you!

Andrée Starå

@Jennifer Flanagan

Excellent!

You're more than welcome!

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