Is it possible to get the reference of the First Parent ?

Grégoire Cadet

Grégoire Cadet ✭✭

12/14/21 in Formulas and Functions

I would like to extract the sub-parts whose biggest Parent is called Media communications.

Is there any function that allow us to extract the name of the biggest parent instead of the closer one ?

=Parent(Example@row)

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Paul Newcome Community Champion

12/14/21

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