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Hi, I have a complex formula that i cant seem to figure out. I'll do my best to describe this below In Sheet 1 i have a unique identifier whose condition changes from blue to green after a certain date Unique identifier Condition StartDate EndDate 123456 Blue 1/5/2025 31/10/2025 123456 Green 1/11/2025 I want to ensure that…
I am looking for some help copying and pasting formulas across sheets. We are working to implement an automated supplier management dashboard which requires that 13 data points are generated for every supplier across all of our project sheets. With all the suppliers, that means a lot of rows and formulas. We then need to…
Hi all, Trying to use a formula to work out net days between events in a column (Visit End Date) when a second column (Visit Description) contains "V" but also only if the last visit also contains a V. =IF(CONTAINS("MV", [Monitor Visit Description]@row), NETDAYS([Monitor Visit End Date]1, [Monitor Visit End Date]2)) worked…
I'm working in Smartsheet Gov, which has several limitations that don’t apply in commercial Smartsheet (ex: no Manage References, no HAS(), no FIND() in COLLECT, and very strict parser rules). I’m trying to build a “Calendar Conflict” flag in my Project Plan sheet that detects when: A task’s Start/End dates overlap with a…
Hi All, I have a Pro plan and I'm assigned as a Member. The workspace and all the sheets under it owned by me. When I try to reference another sheet, the select range pop-up appears and allows me to select the range. Unfortunately, it doesn't appear as a range in the formula once I select it and turns out as an "#Incorrect…
Hello, We use very large SS and I'm trying to fully automate our status reports. In our Schedules for each chapter we have 3 rows of data, planned/revised/actual. I am wondering if it's possible to write an equation for each column that would do the following: Look at the same chapter number rows If the planned date in the…
Hi all, I a very new to Smartsheet (4 weeks) and this community so my apologies if my question doesn't match the rules. I have built a PMO template and profile which I will integrate with control centre to automatically generate a new project triggered by HubSpot. The template has a set of activities across multiple…
Is there a way in Smartsheet to automatically default a date column to 30 days in the future based on certain criteria? For example, if Column A has a value but Column B is left blank, can Column B be set to automatically populate with a date 30 days from today? I tried creating an automation where the trigger is when…
Hi Team, I am trying to build a formula to understand if an ID appears more than once in a column within a 6 month period and I would like it to return a '1' if the conditions are met, and remain 'blank' if they are not. However the below formula keeps returning an #Unparseable error. The issue seems to be with the '('…