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:

IF AND CHILDREN CONTAINS

Sylvia Elizabeth

Sep 7, 2020

Hi,

I want to create a formula where if the children contains a status "Entregado Parcialmente" or "Sin entregar" to turn the parent row into "Entregado Parcialmente" ; otherwise if all the children contains or met the status "Terminado" turn the parent row into "Terminado", but if a cell doesn't contain anything I just want it to stay in blank.

I have made a formula but it doesn´t work, can somebody help me?. I would appreciate it a lot.

Thank you!

Sylvia E.

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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! 🤩