Best way to visually separate different phases in a Smartsheet tracker?

rorylkeenan

Hi,

I often build trackers for workstreams that move through a process or lifecycle. Where these involve distinct phases, I’d like a clearer way to visually separate each phase within the sheet.

At the moment, I’m just using coloured columns/lines as section breaks, but it doesn’t feel particularly clean or optimised.

Does anyone have suggestions for better ways to structure or visually distinguish phases in Smartsheet? Ideally something that’s both more visually appealing and practical to use.

Thanks!

ccarriger

Is your goal to just visually show when a part of the Phase is in the sheet? Or is this a functional question of being able to see which phase an item is in? Cause if it's visual, then what you're doing makes sense, but if you want to be able to pull a report that shows what phase an item is in at any time, then that would be something you could do with a helper column.