Want a formula to autopopulate the task names of other rows

Corey McCarren

So, I have a project. We have milestones listed at the top, which are not tied to any waterfall style deliverables. They are just each their own milestone, with 0 duration, and manually entered dates.

I don't want to create a complex GANTT chart just to get the dependencies between milestones to show.

So I am trying to create a formula to list the Task Names of the rows that are predecessors. This way at least there is some mapping/visibility between blocker milestones.

Copilot gave me the below formula, but it doesn't work, I get #UNPARSEABLE

=[Task Name]2 & CHAR(10) & [Task Name]5 & CHAR(10) & [Task Name]8

Any help is greatly appreciated, thank you in advance!

KPH

Hi @Corey McCarren

That looks like an excel formula combined with a smartsheet one. In Smartsheet to join text you use the + symbol, not &. So your formula would be:

=[Task Name]2 + CHAR(10) + [Task Name]5 + CHAR(10) + [Task Name]8

KPH

Hi @Corey McCarren

That looks like an excel formula combined with a smartsheet one. In Smartsheet to join text you use the + symbol, not &. So your formula would be:

=[Task Name]2 + CHAR(10) + [Task Name]5 + CHAR(10) + [Task Name]8