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Re: Please let Smartsheet work with time

I add my request for this - as well - for Time and Timezone capabilities (esp the ability to allow a user to see what date/time a task would fall on in their timezone!). This is the one feature that makes it difficult (or impossible) to use SmartSheet for our use cases. At this point, we'll have to go back to Google Spreadsheets and individual columns for each user until the ability to work with time and set timezones for various items.

Why is this is a critical need for us?

We schedule events and projects across multiple Geographies.
We need to have setup and teardown precisely coordinated between individuals in different regions.
We need to ensure that any user who has to cover for that individual (might be in a different country) also knows precisely when that task is due in their timezone).
Missing timezones and building our widgets too early or too late either adds significant, wasted cost to our work, or it causes our customers/users to not have the resources necessary

I note that Start and Finish each have a type of "Date/Time" - so the timezone information must be encoded in the sheet for Time to exist here. However, I can create no column called "Time", "Date/Time", or "Timezone" nor any equivalent variable for such an operation.

Add to this that the Smartsheet FAQ states that the last editor of a sheet changes the sheet's source timezone to their's - this is problematic with PM's across different geographies are concurrently updating a plan and it alters everything about an event or project that requires cross-TZ-coordination.

jappleii

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Re: Formula for multiple Criteria

Hi @BonW,

Try this.

=IF(OR(CONTAINS("Invoice", ColumnB@row), LEFT(ColumnC@row, 1) = 1, LEFT(ColumnC@row, 1) = 2, LEFT(ColumnC@row, 1) = 3), "Ready")

Hope that helps,

Dave

DKazatsky2

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Re: Update a cell value within an automated workflow

Hi @Naren

I hope you're well and safe!

You could use so-called helper columns: one for the negative value, one with a formula showing the changed value if something else is true, and then a formula in the main column to show the correct value in each step.

Would that work/help?

I hope that helps!

Be safe, and have a fantastic week!

Best,

Andrée Starå | Workflow Consultant / CEO @ WORK BOLD

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Andrée Starå

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Re: Counting Cells that contain text

Hi @Blake Mears

I hope you're well and safe!

Try something like this.

=COUNTIF(author:author, CONTAINS(1385,@cell)

Did that work/help?

I hope that helps!

Be safe, and have a fantastic week!

Best,

Andrée Starå | Workflow Consultant / CEO @ WORK BOLD

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Andrée Starå

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Re: Data Shuttle doesn't seem to be importing from an Excel file when it is closed

@Matt Molland,

I have had a number of similar issue with data uploader.

Currently, I run a number of python scripts (in place of data uploader) and am able to haven't had any issues yet. You can build a pretty simple script that would pull the file from Box, process it and upload directly into Smartsheet.

Ryan

Ryan Kramer

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Re: Export meta data from Reports (count functions etc)

A lot of this is going to depend on exactly how you want to display these metrics. Sometimes a report will work with grouping and summaries, but then other times you will need a separate sheet with formulas containing cross sheet references.

Either option can be used to generate a chart on a dashboard.

Paul Newcome

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Re: Dropdown in Report

Hi @Abhiraj Joshi

You are able to edit drop-down lists from Reports, however I have seen this behaviour if the type of drop-down column is changed in the sheet without then updating the Report.

For example, if you set this up to be a single-select drop-down column, then created the Report, and finally adjusted this to be a multi-select drop-down column in the source sheet. In this instance, the column is a different type, so the Report is unable to recognize it and you won't be able to edit cells.

Is this possible, could you have changed the column type after creating the Report?

To fix this, try removing the column in the Report, then re-adding the column to see if this resolves the issue!

For an explanation of this behaviour, please see the very last bullet point in this Help Center article on columns in Reports, here.

Let me know if this works!

Cheers,

Genevieve