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Count sheets in a folder and/or workspace
Hello All, Has anyone found a way to count items in a folder or workspace? Thanks Kevin
Formula in Dropdown Column
I have a dropdown column in a sheet for Sales people. See attached. At the top of this sheet, I'd like to do summary formulas for tasks and the best way to do that is to use the dropdown column for the formula. However, when I do this, it gives me the error #contact expected. I've seen this done on examples, but I can't…
SUMIF and AVG or AVERAGEIF
Hello, I'm trying to use two different formulas that looks at multiple Criteria to return an Average Daily number of hours spend on tasks within a category and the other to return the total number of hours in the week spent on specific tasks. With only a single criteria I can get each to work, but I'm struggling with the…
Conditional formatting
Hi there. I have a sheet that has very many columns, and I wanted to create conditional formatting rules. Apparently, smart sheet does not allow to do this for multiple columns all at once, so I wanted to ask if there could be an easier or more convenient way to achieve this without having to do one column at a time? Thank…
Joining cells of multiple columns into one cell
I would like to gather the row responses in the columns outlined in red into the column outlined in green so that I can display just one column in a report instead of several. I have the following format I am starting from. It works well for rows with only one response to gather. It doesn't work for instances where there…
Linking cells - more than 39 rows at a time.
I am trying to link cells from one SmartSheet to another SmartSheet, but every time I go to do this, it will only link 39 rows. My sheets are empty right now as I set this up. So when my data sheet gets information in the 40th row, it will not link to my other sheet. How can I get this to link more than 39 rows?
Why sometimes a formula works and other times it shows #CIRCULAR REFERENCE?
I am working with this formula IF(ISBLANK([MoH ID]@row) = true, "", IFERROR(VLOOKUP([Val ID MoH]@row, {2.1 MoH Range 1}, 16, 0), "Error ID Trámite")). It worked for a few weeks and then suddenly when I open the sheet the formula result is #CIRCULAR REFERENCE. After few days, I opened the same sheet and the formula shows…
If function
Hello, may I request assistance troubleshooting a formula? I have the formula below to identify if the reconciliation is out of balance. In January, the Available Resources and Fiscal Report Ending Balance match, yet the Status display Out of Balance. Is it because it's a negative number? =IF([Available Resources]@row =…
IF, AND, OR Formula
Hello, I am trying to write a formula to use the flag symbol to flag a row as urgent IF the location is "Real" AND Staffing Status symbol is "Yellow" OR "Red". I am having a hard time combining them all to have the correct syntax. This is what I have so far: =IF([Location Status]@row = "Real", AND([Staffing Status]@row =…
Count Dates
Trying to Cross Reference and count dates in a column that are due with = 14 days, = 30 days, = 60 days out. Capture projects due within these date ranges. Thank you!!!!

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