Setting up the best formula

Rachelle Pine

Hi all

Can someone please help me. I am new to setting up formulas and have been successful in doing a number of them on my smartsheet already however for some reason my brain has gone dead and I cannot figure out a formula.

I have a column which is a checkbox, I want a formula set up to notify me how many have been ticked. So far I got COUNT(CHILDREN([Todays Date]196:[Todays Date]207)), however I don't know what to put for it to count the checked boxes.

Please can some advise me or tell me I am wayyyyy off track with this??

Thanks

Andrée Starå

Hi @Rachelle Pine

Can you describe your process in more detail and maybe share the sheet(s)/copies of the sheet(s) or some screenshots? (Delete/replace any confidential/sensitive information before sharing) That would make it easier to help. (share too, andree@getdone.se)

I hope that helps!

Be safe and have a fantastic week!

Best,

Andrée Starå

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Andrée Starå

What kind of column type are you adding the formula to?

You'll need to use a COUNTIFS function.

Paul Newcome

Try this...

=COUNTIFS(CHILDREN([Todays Date]196:[Todays Date]207), 1)

Rachelle Pine

Below is the screenshot of the formula which I have entered for the column labelled "Todays Jobs". As you can see I have 2 boxes in that column which has a tick in the box, however formula comes back with #UNPARSEABLE

The formula I have used is COUNTIFS(CHILDREN[Todays Jobs]196:[Todays Jobs]211,1)

Andrée Starå

@Rachelle Pine

Can you try adding the screenshot again because it's not showing?

Rachelle Pine

Mathieu PERSICO

Hi Rachelle,

Paul Newcome got the right answer. Only forgot the closing parenthesis of the CHILDREN function.

I think this should solve your problem :

=COUNTIFS(CHILDREN([Todays Jobs]:[Todays Jobs]), 1)

Have a great day!

Mathieu @evolytion

Rachelle Pine

Hi Mathieu

I've tried it this way as well and it still doesn't work

I've also tried it noting the rows to count under the Child indent as well and that still won't work. I may have to find another way to do it

Thanks

Rachelle

Paul Newcome

Based on your screenshot, try this...

=COUNTIFS(CHILDREN([Todays Jobs]1), 1)

Andrée Starå

@Rachelle Pine

Strange!

I'd be happy to take a quick look.

Can you maybe share the sheet(s)/copies of the sheet(s)? (Delete/replace any confidential/sensitive information before sharing) That would make it easier to help. (share too, andree@getdone.se)

Rachelle Pine

I will send you the access now Andre

Its under The Tuesday heading, you will see where I have the error.

The formula =COUNTIFS(CHILDREN([Todays Jobs]1),1) does work however it is counting the whole row. I only want it to count specific rows under this heading and not the whole row

Paul Newcome

You will want to make sure the column in the formula is the checkbox column since I cannot see your column names. The row reference should be the row number that contains "Tuesday" (the parent row).

Andrée Starå

@Rachelle Pine

Excellent!

Glad we got it working!

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Rachelle Pine

Problem solved! Thank you all for your help

Paul Newcome

What was the solution?