Sum fields from different table

[Helmi]

Hey,

I’m having a task table with a worker ID and a calculated task run time (with datetime dif) on one table and want to sum all entries from a worker summed up.

I know how to use Lookup but how do I calculate a sum from a field from all rows?

Thanks,
Frank

[Victoria_Hay]

Hi Helmi, this is a great question! It sounds like you have a few options:

A) Use a rollup field to calculate the sum of a field for all linked records
B) Group records by worker, and use the group’s summary bar to calculate the sum of a field
C) Create a filtered view of only those records associated with a given worker and use the summary bar

Hope this helps! If I’m misunderstanding your setup and what you’re looking to accomplish just let me know :slightly_smiling_face:

[Helmi]

Hey @Victoria_Hay,

thanks for replying.

I’m unsure about all your solutions. I try to be a bit more precise with another example. Here’s my situation with two tables:

1. Tools - contains tools
2. Job Log - contains jobs while for each job one tool is used. Also contains the time the job takes

What I now want is to sum up the time that each tool was used in jobs and display it right within the record on the Tools table.

As I understand the rollup field doesn’t have that filter where I can only select the entries where the tool is used but can rollup everything from the Job log table. Is that right? Also the Rollup doesn’t seem to able to add up values that were created by DATETIME_DIFF.

Grouping is nice but isn’t exactly what I want as well as a filtered view.

[Tuur]

It can be done with a rollup (and a sum) as it will only grab the linked records. Not sure about the date format though, but you can always convert the time to minutes or something using: DATETIME_DIFF([date1], [date2], ‘units’) - where units is ‘m’ in this case.

[Pete_Bragansa]

can u explain how to sumif numbers from another table instead of pasting a link to the help section of airtable? that would be great. thx.

[Jeremy_Oglesby]

@Pete_Bragansa - You may find this thread helpful in explaining some options for you:

Apply formulas across summary bars Product Suggestions

The group nesting and sum features in Airtable are slick and potentially very useful, but not being able to display a weighted average in the groups’ summary bars is really painful. The solution to this problem appears, at least to me, to be very simple: Just implement an option in the summary bar pulldown of formula columns to apply their formula across the summary bar. The existence of this feature will probably make or break whether our company will use Airtable. [image]

Use the search feature on this forum (top right) - it has some very powerful filtering options, and can making finding threads that already might exist about a topic pretty easy to locate. Try searching for different keywords that might encapsulate what you’re trying to do, like “summary”, “sum”, “sumif”, etc.

There are a lot of posts on the forums where people explain in detail how to do many different things, so you may find that the explanation you are looking for already exists.