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Working with Symbol Formulas
Hello 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 about trending topics and topics that you request! After I post about a subject, I…
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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…
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DataMesh within the same sheet to copy cells from one column to another
Up until today I've restricted my understanding of datamesh to copying values from sheet to sheet. However, I just discovered today that you can use it WITHIN a sheet! What does this solve? If you ever need to copy a value from column A to column B, but do not want to use a formula, then this process is perfect. It also…
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Smartsheet Control Center Auto Provision... Cross Sheet References Not Loading?
For the Smartsheet community online: I've made a valuable discovery regarding Index(Match()) Cross Sheet References and all others when using Control Center in Smartsheet. If you're experiencing issues where these references don't work when creating "Children" from a "Parent" folder, here's a solution to save you time and…
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Get multiple pages of data in Bridge
Hi all I just wanted to pass along a pro-tip that I got from the Technical Engineering group at ENGAGE 23. If you need to deal with paged data in Bridge, it's not immediately obvious how to do that. At least not to me :-) So I asked. For example, if you do a List Sheets in Bridge, you may get some of the data back on page…
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TIP - Find the date of the first Sunday of the month
This little formula is useful for a range of solutions, like working out if a date is in daylight savings time or not. The examples below reference a date field named [Date]. The first part of the formula finds the date of the seventh day of the month. This is done so that the number of days from Sunday can be subtracted:…
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Create dynamic custom schedules based on selections in intake
Hi all, I recently developed a cool solution to an issue that we had... how to build a custom schedule based on selections in an intake form. This solution leverages Bridge, but you could do the same thing using a third party integration tool. THE GOAL The process goal for this solution is: Collect project requests using…
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SOLUTION: DAY and DATEONLY functions ignoring locale information
Users have been running into problems with the DAY function returning the wrong day and DATEONLY returning the wrong date. The reason is that these functions do not reference the user's locale information, and resolve against UTC time instead. That's fine if you live in the same timezone as Britain, but a tragedy if you…
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Month Name written as Text for Today's Date
what function return month name from date "i.e =TEXT(MONTH(TODAY()),"MMM")"?
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Date Formats in Worksheet
Just for knowledge - Someone had raised this question about date formats in the community and I wanted to add the response to it so it might help some others as well. A mini disclaimer here that most of you might already know this but sometimes we all forget the most obvious things that are in front of our eyes so just…
