COUNTIFS based on Children criteria of certain row

Sandy Glassberg
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edited 01/16/20 inFormulas and Functions

Context: Please see screenshot attached. Project Manager "Fred" has 2 "active" projects in January: Project 1 and Project 2, which are Children under "Fred". This count of 2 is determined bysomepercentage of the project being completed.


Goal: Count the number of active projects per month based on % complete being greater than 0.


Request: Can someone please provide me with the appropriate COUNTIF formula based on these criteria? Thank you so much in advance!

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  • Sandy Glassberg
    Sandy Glassberg ✭✭✭

    A colleague helped me figure it out! Here's the formula he came up with:

    (using a hidden helper column called "PM")

    =COUNTIFS(CHILDREN($PM$12), "Fred", CHILDREN([Jan 2020]12).

    I was having issues at first because various rows were not indented properly and created circular references. But this appears to work fine! If anyone has better suggestions, I'm all ears.

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    Hi Sandy,

    Excellent!

    Thanks for sharing!

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  • Paul Newcome
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    @Sandy Glassberg

    I believe part of your formula may be missing. You have the range but not the criteria for your second set. Could you please post the full formula?


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Hi @Tamar<\/a> <\/p>

I think this is happening becuase you are editing a range that exists in the original location. Instead of editing the range in the new location, be sure to delete the entire range and then click in the place where it was in the formula. Then choose another range. <\/p>

I hope that helps.<\/p>

Matt<\/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":107113,"type":"question","name":"How to return a BLANK if we have a BLANK cell using a COUNTIFS formula","excerpt":"This formula is currently working, and it is returning how many items are reviewed for each \"Project Lead\". The first part of the formula is basically saying that we would count them, as long as we have a \"Reviewer\" name added in the \"Reviewer\" column. =IFERROR(COUNTIFS(Reviewer:Reviewer, <>\"//www.santa-greenland.com/community/discussion/65293/\", [Project Lead]:[Project…","snippet":"This formula is currently working, and it is returning how many items are reviewed for each \"Project Lead\". The first part of the formula is basically saying that we would count…","categoryID":322,"dateInserted":"2023-06-29T22:39:31+00:00","dateUpdated":null,"dateLastComment":"2023-06-30T02:51:05+00:00","insertUserID":157974,"insertUser":{"userID":157974,"name":"Filippo","url":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/profile\/Filippo","photoUrl":"https:\/\/us.v-cdn.net\/6031209\/uploads\/defaultavatar\/nWRMFRX6I99I6.jpg","dateLastActive":"2023-06-30T03:08:32+00:00","banned":0,"punished":0,"private":false,"label":"✭✭"},"updateUserID":null,"lastUserID":157974,"lastUser":{"userID":157974,"name":"Filippo","url":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/profile\/Filippo","photoUrl":"https:\/\/us.v-cdn.net\/6031209\/uploads\/defaultavatar\/nWRMFRX6I99I6.jpg","dateLastActive":"2023-06-30T03:08:32+00:00","banned":0,"punished":0,"private":false,"label":"✭✭"},"pinned":false,"pinLocation":null,"closed":false,"sink":false,"countComments":2,"countViews":24,"score":null,"hot":3376173036,"url":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/discussion\/107113\/how-to-return-a-blank-if-we-have-a-blank-cell-using-a-countifs-formula","canonicalUrl":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/discussion\/107113\/how-to-return-a-blank-if-we-have-a-blank-cell-using-a-countifs-formula","format":"Rich","lastPost":{"discussionID":107113,"commentID":383252,"name":"Re: How to return a BLANK if we have a BLANK cell using a COUNTIFS formula","url":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/discussion\/comment\/383252#Comment_383252","dateInserted":"2023-06-30T02:51:05+00:00","insertUserID":157974,"insertUser":{"userID":157974,"name":"Filippo","url":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/profile\/Filippo","photoUrl":"https:\/\/us.v-cdn.net\/6031209\/uploads\/defaultavatar\/nWRMFRX6I99I6.jpg","dateLastActive":"2023-06-30T03:08:32+00:00","banned":0,"punished":0,"private":false,"label":"✭✭"}},"breadcrumbs":[{"name":"Home","url":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/"},{"name":"Formulas and Functions","url":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/categories\/formulas-and-functions"}],"groupID":null,"statusID":3,"attributes":{"question":{"status":"accepted","dateAccepted":"2023-06-30T02:51:53+00:00","dateAnswered":"2023-06-29T22:55:01+00:00","acceptedAnswers":[{"commentID":383233,"body":"

@Filippo<\/a>, the most inelegant but dead simple thing to do is this:<\/p>

=IF(IFERROR(COUNTIFS(Reviewer:Reviewer, <>\"//www.santa-greenland.com/community/discussion/65293/\", [Project Lead]:[Project Lead], [Project Lead]@row), \"//www.santa-greenland.com/community/discussion/65293/\")<\/strong>=0, \"//www.santa-greenland.com/community/discussion/65293/\", IFERROR(COUNTIFS(Reviewer:Reviewer, <>\"//www.santa-greenland.com/community/discussion/65293/\", [Project Lead]:[Project Lead], [Project Lead]@row), \"//www.santa-greenland.com/community/discussion/65293/\")<\/strong>)<\/p>

Simplified, it's just this:<\/p>

=IF(<your formula> = 0, \"//www.santa-greenland.com/community/discussion/65293/\", <your formula>)<\/p>"},{"commentID":383252,"body":"

Very clever Lucas! Simple IF statement logic. It works perfectly, thanks!!!<\/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":107107,"type":"question","name":"Formula that counts how many rows have a date in the past","excerpt":"Hi! I need help with creating a formula that will count how many rows in my column called End Date have dates in the past. I've tried the following and it gives an \"unparseable\" error: =COUNTIFS([End Date]:[End Date], \"<=\" & TODAY()) Thanks in advance for your help!","snippet":"Hi! I need help with creating a formula that will count how many rows in my column called End Date have dates in the past. I've tried the following and it gives an \"unparseable\"…","categoryID":322,"dateInserted":"2023-06-29T20:39:23+00:00","dateUpdated":"2023-06-29T20:39:58+00:00","dateLastComment":"2023-06-29T20:52:03+00:00","insertUserID":162796,"insertUser":{"userID":162796,"name":"Beth M","url":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/profile\/Beth%20M","photoUrl":"https:\/\/us.v-cdn.net\/6031209\/uploads\/avatarstock\/n7ZG0TBD44T33.png","dateLastActive":"2023-06-29T21:23:37+00:00","banned":0,"punished":0,"private":false,"label":"✭"},"updateUserID":162796,"lastUserID":161714,"lastUser":{"userID":161714,"name":"Carson Penticuff","url":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/profile\/Carson%20Penticuff","photoUrl":"https:\/\/us.v-cdn.net\/6031209\/uploads\/userpics\/B0Q390EZX8XK\/nBGT0U1689CN6.jpg","dateLastActive":"2023-06-30T02:47:38+00:00","banned":0,"punished":0,"private":false,"label":"✭✭✭✭✭"},"pinned":false,"pinLocation":null,"closed":false,"sink":false,"countComments":1,"countViews":23,"score":null,"hot":3376143686,"url":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/discussion\/107107\/formula-that-counts-how-many-rows-have-a-date-in-the-past","canonicalUrl":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/discussion\/107107\/formula-that-counts-how-many-rows-have-a-date-in-the-past","format":"Rich","tagIDs":[254],"lastPost":{"discussionID":107107,"commentID":383217,"name":"Re: Formula that counts how many rows have a date in the past","url":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/discussion\/comment\/383217#Comment_383217","dateInserted":"2023-06-29T20:52:03+00:00","insertUserID":161714,"insertUser":{"userID":161714,"name":"Carson Penticuff","url":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/profile\/Carson%20Penticuff","photoUrl":"https:\/\/us.v-cdn.net\/6031209\/uploads\/userpics\/B0Q390EZX8XK\/nBGT0U1689CN6.jpg","dateLastActive":"2023-06-30T02:47:38+00:00","banned":0,"punished":0,"private":false,"label":"✭✭✭✭✭"}},"breadcrumbs":[{"name":"Home","url":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/"},{"name":"Formulas and Functions","url":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/categories\/formulas-and-functions"}],"groupID":null,"statusID":3,"attributes":{"question":{"status":"accepted","dateAccepted":"2023-06-29T20:54:25+00:00","dateAnswered":"2023-06-29T20:52:03+00:00","acceptedAnswers":[{"commentID":383217,"body":"

You are very close, try this.<\/p>

=COUNTIFS([End Date]:[End Date], <= TODAY())<\/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":[{"tagID":254,"urlcode":"Formulas","name":"Formulas"}]}],"initialPaging":{"nextURL":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/api\/v2\/discussions?page=2&categoryID=322&includeChildCategories=1&type%5B0%5D=Question&excludeHiddenCategories=1&sort=-hot&limit=3&expand%5B0%5D=all&expand%5B1%5D=-body&expand%5B2%5D=insertUser&expand%5B3%5D=lastUser&status=accepted","prevURL":null,"currentPage":1,"total":10000,"limit":3},"title":"Trending in Formulas and Functions ","subtitle":null,"description":null,"noCheckboxes":true,"containerOptions":[],"discussionOptions":[]}">

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