Mark child if Parent meets criteria

Mike Liggett
Mike Liggett ✭
edited 12/09/19 in Formulas and Functions

Hi-

I see lots of threads to mark a parent if a child meets a certain criteria, but I am looking for the opposite. I have Material, Labor, and Subcontractor Parent rows and would like to mark the children with either a number or letter indicating if it is a child of one of those parents (Material =1, Labor =2, Subcontractor =3)  

Can someone please help with this functionality?  

Thanks, 

Mike

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  • Paul Newcome
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    The children of each parent row are already indented underneath of it. Why are you trying to add a secondary marking to each row?

    If you could give us some more info on what exactly you are looking to accomplish along with possibly some screenshots that would be extremely helpful towards finding a solution that works for you.

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  • Mike Liggett
    Mike Liggett ✭

    This is due to having multiple parents of the same type.  See attached.  If we could have a formula that automatically tags the identifier by row based on its parent...that is what I am after.  

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  • L_123
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    =IF(PARENT([Primary Column]@row) = "Material", "M", IF(PARENT([Primary Column]@row) = "Labor", "L", IF(PARENT([Primary Column]@row) = "Sub", "S")))

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  • L_123
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    Another solution that you could do is remove the identifier column and add

    =SUM(CHILDREN(Cost@row))

    to the parents in the cost columns. Then use a sumif to get all of those.

    =SUMIF([Primary Column]:[Primary Column], "Material", Cost:Cost)

    It's almost always best to reduce the amount of helper columns you have.

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  • Paul Newcome
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    I am going to agree with Luke's second recommendation. The identifier column still seems redundant as each Child row is identified by the parent row already. The only thing I would change about that is you may want to use [Total Cost]:[Total Cost] to capture your markup.

    If you do in fact still want the identifiers, then I would go with Luke's first suggestion.

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  • Mike Liggett
    Mike Liggett ✭

    Thanks for the feedback Paul and Luke and it works as intended!  FYI the reason we need the identifier is because we have one more column that I did not show that has a building location we need to further filter by.  

     

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