Count Children If

Keisha Thomas

Hello,

I am trying to create a formula to count the current providers I have in each office location. So I have a "Locations" column with each office location, and each office location have child rows that indicate a provider per row. I also have a column called "Start Date" that indicates when a provider has started with the company. I am trying to figure out a formula that would count the children rows of each office location IF the provider has already started (date in Start Date column is in the past from TODAY)

I'm issues with my syntax and nesting the conditions:

=COUNT(CHILDREN(Locations@row, IF([Start Date (Training)]@row, <TODAY())

Thank you in advance

Darren Mullen

Use COUNTIFS , The way you are using the IF statement is incorrect. You are using it Intuitively, but not the way it works in Smartsheet .

https://help.smartsheet.com/function/countifs

Keisha Thomas

@Darren Mullen Thank you. Do you mean to replace the "IF" statement with "COUNTIF"? Or rewrite the formula overall using COUNTIFS function? I'm still having a hard time figuring it out. Would you be able to give an example?

Andrée Starå

Hi @Keisha Thomas

I hope you're well and safe!

Try something like this.

=COUNTIFS(CHILDREN(Locations@row), <>"", 
CHILDREN([Start Date (Training)]@row), <TODAY())

Did that work/help?

I hope that helps!

Be safe and have a fantastic week!

Best,

Andrée Starå | Workflow Consultant / CEO @ WORK BOLD

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Keisha Thomas

@Andrée Starå That worked perfectly. Thank you so much!

Andrée Starå

@Keisha Thomas

Excellent!

You're more than welcome!