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Updating parent status field from children

  • August 14, 2019
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Hi,

I have a traditional "Production" with child table "Production Tasks" table setup and linked. It encapsulates our company where different departments have tasks for a production and the Production cannot be complete until all tasks are done. I can use Actions to, if the parent has its status changed, push this to all children. Is there a way to do something like a reverse action where if all a Production's Tasks have been set to status complete, it updates the parent? I can think of how to do this via the API but figured there might be something in Actions/Automations that would take care of this.

Thanks!
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No problem.

You can make a summary field of the # of incomplete tasks and look that up down to the children. 

Then set up an Automation to fire when a child task status changes to complete and the [# of incomplete tasks] = 0

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  • August 14, 2019
Mark,

That did the trick and was quite easy. Thanks!

Here is the screenshot from the summary field to possibly help others in the future. Go under Table-to-table relationships for the parent, add summary field: