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Time/Date Stamp formulas
Hi, I am trying to auto populate a time date stamp when a cell is filled in on a row. Ex Submission Status then I need to create a formula to populate a due date based on the time date stamp and based on Priority Levels Priority Level (Business Days) High - 3 days Medium - 5 days Low - 10 days NBD<12pm- (Next Business…
Formula to check Child Row checkbox if Parent row contains "ABC Dept" (filtering by Department)
I have a "Master" project resource sheet with great grandparent rows for "Current Projects" and "Future Projects", Then grandparent rows for each "Project", parent rows for department and child rows for the individual resources per department. I'm trying to create a filter to filter resources by department across…
Linking & Formulas
I would like the information from the first document labeled template first to auto populate into the second smartsheet labeled template second. I am managing multiple projects at once and have 7 smartsheets to track the data specific to each of those projects. I have 1 master smartsheet which houses meeting information,…
Calendar View and Reporting
One of the project managers I work with prefers to work in a calendar view for the reports. I included snap shots of our Project Template, Report and Calendar View. Our process is to open a project template and name according to the meeting. Example: "Store Celebrations" From there the Dates are added and adjusted based on…
Calendar View and Reporting
One of the project managers I work with prefers to work in a calendar view for the reports. I included snap shots of our Project Template, Report and Calendar View. Our process is to open a project template and name according to the meeting. Example: "Store Celebrations" From there the Dates are added and adjusted based on…
Reports pulling from formulas
I have reports calculating off multiple workflow sheets based on a column in the worksheet with formulas - the reports sometimes appear blank and when I go into the worksheet to see why, the formula column shows as blank and then reappears - almost like they only recalculate when looking at the sheet. the fomula is a…
Formula for Status change based on dates/ blank cells/ TBD
Hello all, I really found this community helpful so far in learning how to use Smartsheets. I just wanted to provide a formula I created in case it is helpful for anyone else. I didn't find the exact info I needed when trying to make it, but I built this with the help of many discussion comments. This formula will…
IF AND Statement for Color Statuses
I am trying to do something that I thought was fairly simple, but I keep running into an issue and receive an "#Unparceable" with my current formula. I am trying to build a Task Status based on Red, Yellow, Blue, and Green Circles. My challenge is getting the proper formula/syntax for my Yellow Status. =IF([Status]1 = ???,…
Count tasks between today and xdays+today
I have several different project sheets that contain communication tasks. I create another sheet to create a count of tasks coming up in the next 7 days (I plan to create a report to pull up to a dashboard). I am having trouble creating a formula that will count the tasks between today and today +7 days. This is what I…
Trying to expand my knowledge of writing formulas
Im having a little bit of a hard time trying to make formulas longer and saving column space(s). For instance when I run into an issue of creating a formula in 1 cell i sometimes create a new column and put the formula I wanted to add in there. This takes up space which can be free'd up and when the sheet gets over 1000…

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If Function - Nested - Negative Percentage - Symbols
I have a formula that is driving me insane. I am trying to get symbols to change color based on the % to Plan column (see screenshot). If the % is positive, I want the On Track Column to show Green. If it is negative BUT greater than -25%, I would like to show Yellow and all others to show Red. The problem is I am getting…
If Date is blank + past formula
I can't figure out why this would return a "yes" when the date cell is blank. =IF([Date of Site Survey (Product)]@row = " ", " ", IF(TODAY() > [Date of Site Survey (Product)]@row, "yes", " ")) Intended logic/result - If date cell is blank, then "blank" (this worked when I tried without the 2nd argument added) If date is in…
Modifying a date based on 2 variables
Hello Everyone! I would like to create a formula that says If the value in the "Variable" column is "HIGH" AND the date in "Column 1" has a year less than today's year, return that date with TODAY"S year. Otherwise return that date unchanged. In other words, dates in the previous years are brought to this year, dates in…

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