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I would just click there on row two and indent it once so that it is a child of row 1.<\/p>"}]}},"status":{"statusID":3,"name":"Accepted","state":"closed","recordType":"discussion","recordSubType":"question"},"bookmarked":false,"unread":false,"category":{"categoryID":322,"name":"Formulas and Functions","url":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/categories\/formulas-and-functions","allowedDiscussionTypes":[]},"reactions":[{"tagID":3,"urlcode":"Promote","name":"Promote","class":"Positive","hasReacted":false,"reactionValue":5,"count":0},{"tagID":5,"urlcode":"Insightful","name":"Insightful","class":"Positive","hasReacted":false,"reactionValue":1,"count":0},{"tagID":11,"urlcode":"Up","name":"Vote Up","class":"Positive","hasReacted":false,"reactionValue":1,"count":0},{"tagID":13,"urlcode":"Awesome","name":"Awesome","class":"Positive","hasReacted":false,"reactionValue":1,"count":0}],"tags":[]},{"discussionID":107587,"type":"question","name":"Help with formula","excerpt":"I need some help with a formula. See sheet summary. I just need help with the first one \"move in items open\" and I can apply the same formula structure to the rest. I want to count the amount of Warranty phase column if that says \"move in items\" and the status is Not started or In progress\" and have that be 1 number. Any…","snippet":"I need some help with a formula. See sheet summary. I just need help with the first one \"move in items open\" and I can apply the same formula structure to the rest. I want to…","categoryID":322,"dateInserted":"2023-07-13T20:10:58+00:00","dateUpdated":null,"dateLastComment":"2023-07-13T20:32:18+00:00","insertUserID":144391,"insertUser":{"userID":144391,"name":"Jon Barto","url":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/profile\/Jon%20Barto","photoUrl":"https:\/\/us.v-cdn.net\/6031209\/uploads\/defaultavatar\/nWRMFRX6I99I6.jpg","dateLastActive":"2023-07-13T21:51:45+00:00","banned":0,"punished":0,"private":false,"label":"✭✭"},"updateUserID":null,"lastUserID":144391,"lastUser":{"userID":144391,"name":"Jon Barto","url":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/profile\/Jon%20Barto","photoUrl":"https:\/\/us.v-cdn.net\/6031209\/uploads\/defaultavatar\/nWRMFRX6I99I6.jpg","dateLastActive":"2023-07-13T21:51:45+00:00","banned":0,"punished":0,"private":false,"label":"✭✭"},"pinned":false,"pinLocation":null,"closed":false,"sink":false,"countComments":2,"countViews":18,"score":null,"hot":3378560596,"url":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/discussion\/107587\/help-with-formula","canonicalUrl":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/discussion\/107587\/help-with-formula","format":"Rich","lastPost":{"discussionID":107587,"commentID":385132,"name":"Re: Help with formula","url":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/discussion\/comment\/385132#Comment_385132","dateInserted":"2023-07-13T20:32:18+00:00","insertUserID":144391,"insertUser":{"userID":144391,"name":"Jon Barto","url":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/profile\/Jon%20Barto","photoUrl":"https:\/\/us.v-cdn.net\/6031209\/uploads\/defaultavatar\/nWRMFRX6I99I6.jpg","dateLastActive":"2023-07-13T21:51:45+00:00","banned":0,"punished":0,"private":false,"label":"✭✭"}},"breadcrumbs":[{"name":"Home","url":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/"},{"name":"Get Help","url":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/categories\/get-help"},{"name":"Formulas and Functions","url":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/categories\/formulas-and-functions"}],"groupID":null,"statusID":3,"image":{"url":"https:\/\/us.v-cdn.net\/6031209\/uploads\/TQ7LFUFZ13RR\/warranty.jpg","urlSrcSet":{"10":"","300":"","800":"","1200":"","1600":""},"alt":"warranty.jpg"},"attributes":{"question":{"status":"accepted","dateAccepted":"2023-07-13T20:47:26+00:00","dateAnswered":"2023-07-13T20:19:40+00:00","acceptedAnswers":[{"commentID":385121,"body":"

Give this a try:<\/p>

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