Column formula with flagged parent/child rows
Hi all,
I wrote a formula that would cause the parent row to be flagged if any of the child rows were flagged:
=IF(COUNT(CHILDREN([Protocol ID]@row)) > 0, IF(COUNTIF(CHILDREN(), 1) > 0, 1))))
I want to be able to convert this to a column formula, so I created a "level" column so that parent rows would be labeled as level 1 & child rows would be blank, then I wrote this formula:
=IF(Level@row = 1, (IF(COUNT(CHILDREN([Protocol ID]@row)) > 0, IF(COUNTIF(CHILDREN(), 1) > 0, 1))))
This worked just fine when the formula was just applied to the parent & child rows, but when I converted it to a column formula, I couldn't flag the child rows anymore and the formula therefore didn't work.
Is there a different way to write or apply the formula so that this will apply when applied as a column formula?
Thank you!
Answers
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Hi @ejrbean
I hope you're well and safe!
When you use a column formula, you can't change anything in the column manually, so you'd need to use so-called helper columns to make it work.
Make sense?
Would that work/help?
I hope that helps!
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That makes sense. What kind of helper column would you recommend? I have a level column (that marks parent rows as level 1 so that I can apply conditional formatting to parent rows) and a "breadcrumbs" helper column that indicates the parent row and sheet on the children rows (for reference in reports and if I copy or move rows). Would there be a formula that could incorporate one of these that I could use, or would I need a different helper column?
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