Count(Children()) Not Counting Correctly

hollyconradsmith

I am trying to create a rollup of the status of the phase using a modified version of the method from this post:

https://community.smartsheet.com/discussion/71132/if-and-children-contains

The problem I am running into is somehow the simple COUNT(CHILDREN()) portion of my formula is not counting the correct number of children. As shown in this screenshot, there are clearly 3 children of this parent row, but it is only counting 2 when I use the formula =COUNT(CHILDREN()). Any idea why this could be?

Leibel S

@hollyconradsmith

The count function by default does not count blank cells.

You can switch this to a COUNTIF function that checks for both empty and full:

=COUNTIF(CHILDREN(), OR(@cell = "", @cell <> ""))

Leibel S

@hollyconradsmith

The count function by default does not count blank cells.

You can switch this to a COUNTIF function that checks for both empty and full:

=COUNTIF(CHILDREN(), OR(@cell = "", @cell <> ""))

hollyconradsmith

Thank you @Leibel Shuchat! 🤩