Best Practice
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Discussion List
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New Community Category: Best PracticeIn Best PracticeWelcome to the Best Practice Category in Community! With so many great discussions happening we see incredible solutions being built out by our members. This category is a place to find creative solutions, tips and tricks, and best practi…
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Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) - Column Formula ConfigurationIn Best PracticeHello 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…
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SUCCESSORS TestingIn Best PracticeI have seen in the past quite a few people asking how we can leverage predecessors for alerts so that when (for example) the preceding task is complete, a notification goes out automatically to the owner of the next task letting them know …
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Working with Symbol FormulasIn Best PracticeHello Smartsheet Community! As our Community grows, I am starting to see some trends about features and workarounds users want to learn more about. For these topics, I am starting a new series of announcements. In this series, I will write…
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Lock or Store Date/Value Solution without using ZapierIn Best PracticeHi all, I hope you're well and safe! I've developed a solution that lets you store the date or value. You'd use the copy-row automation and a VLOOKUP or combination of INDEX/MATCH to make it work. We'd trigger the copy-row to another shee…
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Formulas for Calculating TimeIn Best PracticeI 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 …
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Quick way to copy formulas across sheets I foundIn Best PracticeProblem: 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 res…
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@row referencing cell aboveIn Best PracticeIs there a way that I can use @row to reference the cell above? I'm creating a formula to check for duplicates and I want to compare details in the current row to the one above.
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INDEX and MATCH across two sheets: a detailed explanationIn Best PracticeHello 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…
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Daily Update Solution without the need to open the sheet, use Zapier, or similarIn Best PracticeHi 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 hel…
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List of date formula I have used repeatedlyIn Best PracticeDoing this so I have an ongoing list of functioning optimized formulas , keeping it in the community in case it helps someone else. Please feel free to comment with your own, but I'm keeping the most basic of the formulas out of this. Bel…
