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Archives for February 2023

The Hidden Genius Project
Although I faced an error in trying to request this badge, I still wanted to voice out my support for it. I am a colored woman from a minority group myself and have attained the status of a technical program manager at a top notch company in the US after a lot of struggle and on more than one occasion felt the lack of…
ProcessPower
Share your Process Power and consider answering the following questions: Is your power something you intuited or something you learned? Leadership is a power I have developed over time. Understanding how something needs to get done and taking the steps to do it are learned behaviors not inherit skill sets. Practice,…
An Introduction to the Smartsheet Community
My name is Paul M. Kahl and I am part of the Strategy and Project Management team at Warner Bros Discovery. I was first exposed to Smartsheet in 2015, but became heavily involved in development and continual improvement at the beginning of 2020 and have been pushing forward ever since. I look forward to continual…
Hello from Jo based in Australia
Hi everyone - Looking forward to becoming an active member of this community. My career is in MedTech and new business startups, specifically in Sales Leadership/Management and Business Development. Introduced to Smartsheet 18 months and am keen to transition into PM. Looking forward to learning more and would appreciate…
My customer needs answers and this is the first one
Hi Smartsheet Community , a customer of mine with whom I share all the work we complete on their behalf is asking the below question , Where can I find the answer to this question below please ?am getting no answers for Smartsheet direct ‘I’m currently reviewing some of the detail in our Business Continuity Strategy…
Any ideas on automatically creating workscope packages base on changed rows?
I have a large database that users can make changes to, those changes are then put into a workscope for processing. I don't think I want to use the highlight changes feature, because sometimes the changes may stay in limbo before processing for more than a month or two, and I don't want to use show changes since I last…
ProcessPower : Mine is Leadership
Share your Process Power and consider answering the following questions: Is your power something you intuited or something you learned? "Intuited" Describe a time when you utilized your power and Smartsheet to succeed at work? "created budget forecasts, rack and stack KPI, risk assessment trackers, project planning and…
What's your Process Power? Mine is Velocity!
Share your Process Power and consider answering the following questions: Is your power something you intuited or something you learned? My process power is a bit of both! Organization, discipline, and logical thinking are a big part of my personality, but harnessing and developing these aspects of my personality has been a…
Hi!
Hi, all. I am Colleen Patterson, working in the healthcare / medtech industry. Our organization connects clinicians and medtech for educational initiatives. My role here at the organization is SME for Smartsheet and I am responsible for creating all sheets, Control Center projects, and I am starting to set our team up on…
Hello SmartSheet Community
Hello All - I am with CBRE and have been using SmartSheets for about a year. I have built hundreds of sheets and have recently started our group on the SmartSheet Resource Management. Our organization is starting to use Control Center and I am trying to become more familiar with this feature. I am a project manager and our…

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Formulas for Calculating Time
I have decided to create a post that consolidates all of the different time based solutions that I have put together. Some of these solutions can be made more efficient or condensed into fewer but larger formulas. I am still going through these working on making them more efficient and tweaking them, but all of them have…
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) - Column Formula Configuration
Hello Everyone, Recently myself and two fellow Smartsheet Sales Engineers, @Lea Gikas and @Dave Stanley got together to create a WBS solution powered by Column Formulas. We wanted to provide the resulting configuration to the community in case some may find it helpful in executing project management solutions, this…
Daily Update Solution without the need to open the sheet, use Zapier, or similar
Hi everyone, Happy New Year! I hope you're well and safe! I've developed a way to use the newly released Record a date feature to update sheets with today's date automatically without the need to open it or similar. 1. Add a so-called helper column. (Date). We can call it Today Helper and add a date before the current day.…
Quick way to copy formulas across sheets I found
Problem: I had the need to copy a list of 26 formulas to 56 sheets maintaining the formulas for each sheet. to increase the data collection across the sheets. All sheets have the same column names. Smartsheet defaults to saving the end result, and doesn't offer the ability to just copy the formulas from one column in one…
For Every one want to have More color symbol for health Status column.
Dear Community Memebers, I saw many equations asking to have More color symbol for health Status column, so i added this post to be a simple reference to solve this issue and with your help and comments we can develop it to match the most of your wishes. the following screenshot shows the color reference you can use it in…
Combine emails into a multiple-contact column / multi-contact column
Multiple-contact columns can be problematic to use in Smartsheet. Namely, they cannot be "put together" with a formula. There's many use cases where you need to build multiple contacts into a cell based on criteria/lookups, but there isn't a way to do that in native core Smartsheet. There is, however, a couple of methods…
Auto-Create Child Rows WITHOUT Bridge or API
This initial solution is based on form submissions being made and each form submission triggering the creation of a set of "template" child rows per submission WITHOUT the need for a 3rd party app, the premium add-on Bridge, or the API. So if your form submissions look like this: Your working sheet could look like this:…
Formula To Indicate A Task Is Ready Because Predecessors Are Complete [Solution]
I have seen many posts about people wanting the ability to indicate a particular task/row is ready to begin because all of the predecessors are complete (many of them archived). All of the proposed solutions had short comings (e.g. only works on rows with a single FS predecessor with no lag). Here is my full solution to…
INDEX and MATCH across two sheets: a detailed explanation
Hello everyone, would love some feedback on this tutorial. I was answering a user's question regarding INDEX and MATCH (thread post here), and thought it would be beneficial to share my example to the greater Smartsheet community of how to easily utilize INDEX and MATCH functions to reference cells from another sheet by…
URL Query String and CHAR() Function Helper Sheet
Greetings all, Because I grew tired of spending an inordinate amount of time piecing together URL query strings, I've compiled all of the UTF-8 character codes (that I came across) into an easy to use reference sheet. I've also added in a column for the corresponding CHAR() function codes and conditionally formatted the…

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Meet Amit Wadhwani, our December Member Spotlight! 🎉
It’s the holiday season, and we’re featuring a very special Community member to help us end the year: @Amit Wadhwani, Community Champion and our December Member Spotlight! Amit is the Vice President of Operations at Ignatiuz, Inc. and lives in Pennsylvania in the US. In 2017, his manager at the time asked him to look for…
Smartsheet has been recognized as a Leader in the 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Collaborative Work
Hello Community, Did you hear the great news? Gartner recognized Smartsheet as a Leader in the 2024 Magic Quadrant! Not only was Smartsheet recognized as a Leader in Collaborative Work Management for the second year in a row, but we were also recognized with a Gartner Peer Insights ™ ‘Customers’ Choice’ distinction for…

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