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DESCENDANTS function
Has anyone used the new DESCENDANTS function? I have read the verbiage that SS has provided and played with it in the Formula Examples template from the solution center. It is definitely working very differently than I expected it to. Does anyone have some insight as to how this is supposed to be working and possibly some…
Calendar View and Reporting
One of the project managers I work with prefers to work in a calendar view for the reports. I included snap shots of our Project Template, Report and Calendar View. Our process is to open a project template and name according to the meeting. Example: "Store Celebrations" From there the Dates are added and adjusted based on…
At Risk Flag - Past Due
I want to use the "At Risk" Flag to populate when an item is not marked complete and is past due. I assume I need to use an AND or and OR formula - but this isn't working. The formula below yields no populated flags. The line for "Tag Drawings" should populate a flag because it is past due and is not completed.
Index/Match always returns the same
Hi all, Been searching on the community but could not find an answer to my issue. Sorry if i missed it. So i have a Master sheet for the sales team, with all the customers to contact, with one rep allocated on each of those customers. Then, the individual reps will have their own spreadsheets with only their allocated…
Matching multiple values from multiple columns in linked sheet to fill cell with content from third
I have Two sheets, one that acts as a "Rate card", it is broken down into Job title / Location / Day rate and the second is a budget sheet. For Example, Rate Card Column 1 / Column 2 / Column 3 Project Manager / UK / £10 Project Manager / US / £20 Developer / UK / £11 Developer / US / £22 In my Budget sheet I have a…
Formula for Status change based on dates/ blank cells/ TBD
Hello all, I really found this community helpful so far in learning how to use Smartsheets. I just wanted to provide a formula I created in case it is helpful for anyone else. I didn't find the exact info I needed when trying to make it, but I built this with the help of many discussion comments. This formula will…
Inconsistent Formula Function (seemingly, anyway)
I wrote a formula to calculate the number of days until a task is due. It works perfectly most of the time, but, on some rows, it doers not. Below are the actual copied and pasted formulas from the cells that say "OVER-DUE" and "-2, referenced from the screenshot: =IF([Task Total Hours]26 = 0, "", IF(Finish23 < TODAY(),…
New Formulas Q - HEXTODEC//DECTOHEX
Hello - What's the use case behind using the above formulas? Is it for working out HEX<>RGB color combinations?! Sean
Copy To Another Sheet
Please help! I was curious if there is a formula that would copy a row to another sheet, only if a certain column meets the criteria. I created two sheets that are exactly the same, but one is named Overtime and the other is Branch Visit. If the Branch Visit column states 'yes' on the Overtime sheet, can that entire row…
Formula to check Child Row checkbox if Parent row contains "ABC Dept" (filtering by Department)
I have a "Master" project resource sheet with great grandparent rows for "Current Projects" and "Future Projects", Then grandparent rows for each "Project", parent rows for department and child rows for the individual resources per department. I'm trying to create a filter to filter resources by department across…

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